Online Avalanche Course

Samckoy · 2010-12-11 01:23:35

Here is an official avalanche course to help you gain awareness this doesn't mean that after doing this you'll be set to do backcountry, but it's a good start and you'll know a little bit more about why it's not so smart to go into the backcountry without any proper knowledge or gear. This stuff is trustworthy, Hopefully this will get stickied because often threads are posted on avalanche safety but they're not always accurate and/or incomplete

Samckoy

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My bad the link didn't work

http://www.avalanche.ca/cac/training/online-course

Dec 11 2010 1:24AM

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ima keep this bumped for now, this is valuable/gold

Dec 11 2010 2:59AM

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heading out tomorrow to do a three day Level I course

Dec 11 2010 5:01AM

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Good idea.

Dec 11 2010 8:08AM

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Samckoy

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Bump, I hope a mod can sticky this and place the link in the original post rather than as a comment

Dec 11 2010 11:45PM

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Great link... +K

Dec 12 2010 2:04PM

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very helpful +kk

Dec 12 2010 2:08PM

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2nd the stickyness

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Samckoy

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No worries, glad you guys are interested enough to read it, it's a great source of info.

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This is great man, seriously.

My first days out this year was with some friends and we hiked some mountain (where we probably shouldn't have), and as some of them were getting to the top area to start the way down, an avalanche started and hit one of my friends. Avalanche wasn't huge and he was okay but still, never thought it was going to happen then.

We definitively decided to take the course after that and this is a good start!.

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So for those of us who live in BC, here is an avalanche bulletin website,

http://www.avalanche.ca/cac/bulletins/latest

if people have access to online bulletins or phone number for their website, go ahead and post it

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Samckoy

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Here are the Avy Snacks from the Online Avalanche Course put together. Each is only a minute or two long so take the time to watch them all.

Remember, these are informative video's only and should not be used as a substitute to an avalanche course.

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This is a good source of info, good post. I definitely think that it should be warned that this doesn't replace taking an Avi Awareness course, but a really good start point. +k

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Good info source and the right idea, but a real life course actually showing you everything you need to know is definitely the right place to go.

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I definitely agree that this is only a starting point and not a substitute to a real AST 1 or AST 2 avalanche course, I stated so in my last comment and should have made it especially clear in the original thread, but I absolutely agree, nevertheless, it's good to get a head-start and this is the right place to do so.

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I definitely agree that this is only a starting point and not a substitute to a real AST 1 or AST 2 avalanche course, I stated so in my last comment and should have made it especially clear in the original thread, but I absolutely agree, nevertheless, it's good to get a head-start and this is the right place to do so.

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Bumping, sorry for the double post ^ and for making this thread so persistent. I still think this thread should be stickied

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Bump for the purpose of awareness and safety

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threadz thank you sir

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Samckoy

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you're very welcome

Dec 15 2010 1:49PM

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There is some good info in there, thanks man

Dec 15 2010 1:55PM

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threads for later. thanks for posting this, i was initially planning on doing some bc this year and this is some great stuff to know!

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Samckoy

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As long as people don't forget to take an avy course like the AST1 (avalanche safety training level 1). This is no substitute as long as everyone remembers that.

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