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Free online avalanche training course.
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Just noticed that the first avalanche fatalities of the season occured on the 16th. One in Montana and one in Wyoming. Be carefull.
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thanks a lot for sharing dude, ive been looking for something like this.
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has anyone gone throught this. If so, was it helpful?
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online?
best place to test snow. ever
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better than nothing, we dont need anymore avalanche related deaths
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i agree.
but even if everyone was certified, there would still be accidents.
nature is a bastard.
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but there would certainly be less. see the chart on the website! only 8% of deadly avalanches are natural in cause.
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i went through a bit of it, its more of just reading about avalanches, i learned a few things though. They say on the page a lot though, that you should take a real course in safety before you go BC skiing.
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...unless it makes you feel more knowledgable than you really are about snow pack and avalanches. hopefully the course will help people see the need to enroll in a real course where you work hands on with real snow.
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Ok, I have taken avalanche 1 through the national ski patrol and another course through MMRT(mountain medical response team) which I am on here in Grand county colorado, and I will tell you that avalanche 1 basicly just tells you, "be afraid, very afraid". This course is good and something everyone should look at. It doesn't say, ok now you have taken the course, you are now an expert. Of course you need to go practice with your beacons and dig snowpits out in the field. Snow sense is also good book that everyone just getting into this should probably have also. Practice with your beacons, pay attention to the snow, read the avalanche reports(though you need to make your own analysis of the slope you are skiing), ski one at a time and make sure your friends are out of the way if you trigger something.
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yeh i posted this on TGR earlier this week, i went through the course 2 times, it was very helpful, everyone should take a look, its kinda confuseing to get to all the slides, like sometimes i would skip one and have to go back but you will figure it out. Also check out TGRS conways corner, it has a bunch of good free avi lessons. I shoulda posted it here but w.e
Peace and Love
Chris
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I went through this last night after someone posted. It was pretty helpful, not that I will need it on the east. But it is good ton know.
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un true, im in the ec too, there is actualy alot of bc stuff, to name one u could get to very easily , whiteface slides.
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yeah i got a little booklet too on avalanches that came with my powder mag. one day
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^recco book, haha yea that was knifty. consider this a saftey bump.
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Everyone should read this.
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yeah..it was still kinda just an advertisment though saying all the brands that use RECCO and that stuff
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Exactly sometimes things like this have the opposite effect. You buy a helmit to protect you but you feel safer in it so you think you can do anything and it really makes skiing more dangerous. People should read it to gain some knowledge but remember that it does not make them in anyway qualified to analyze a snowpack or go into the bc.
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