This is a training session for crevasse rescue techniques including prusik training and various pulley arrangements (mainly drop loop and Z pulley). Until Feb 15, preference will be given to those people who have signed up for Ben Waller’s course on Sunday Mar 11 on Crevasse rescue on Mount Seymour.

Coldsmoke 2012 is shaping up to be a truly homegrown Kootenay event. Three days of clinics, competitions and social evenings will provide both experienced and debutant backcountry skiers and snowboarders with fantastic learning opportunities and tons of fun. Now in its 6th year it offers a concentrated curriculum of powder enlightenment that is difficult to […]

This trip is focused on crevasse rescue in winter environments. Snow anchors will be reviewed based on the THINX method and we will practice the drop loop and 3/1 systems. Prior to this trip, participants should ideally have done a dry school on different raising systems and understand their set- up. More info on ACC […]

Course indoors on Saturday. Trip to Paul Ridge to examine snow profiles and terrain on Sunday. This is a practical avalanche course, based on the essential curriculum taught world-wide in recreational avalanche courses. The overall objective is to provide you with training and skills to answer five key questions: 1. How dangerous are avalanches (risk […]

5 pm. Meet at MEC (Broadway store) pick up gear & brief orientation. 6 pm. Depart for Mt Seymour, meet in Cafeteria, review outline & plan for the evening 7pm – 9pm. Conduct gear familiarization & practice; team safety, signal search, victim location (probe practice), victim extraction (shovel techniques), evacuation. 9:30 head for home. This […]