The Avalanche Skills Training Course (AST) is 2 day course that includes classroom and outdoor instruction covering: mountain snowpack, terrain, trip preparation,avalanche formation and rescue.

• Curriculum, instructional materials and student handbooks provided by the Candadian Avalanche Centre.
• Course content and materials developed by the CAC
• See our short rescue video here: Can you dig
• Another short digging video Strategic Shovelling

DAY 1 - classroom and outdoors

Class room day may be held remotely if public health regualatons prohibit indoor meeting.. Details will be sent to groups as to the format and timing of the first classroom day. Location will be arranged if classroom session is in person.

DAY 2 - field day

You will have to be an intermediate skier or snowboarder to go on the field day.

Though the terrain is quite straight forward, the fire road is down hill and you should be able to at least do a strong snow plow. Get a hold of us if you have any doubts. The second day will be spent in the Maligne Lake area, or at Parkers Ridge. We will be making observations, discussing route finding, snow pack stability evaluation, and rescue. We will organize this trip on the first day!

We will arrange transportation from Jasper for day 2.

Equipment list (These items are not provided, you must bring these!)