Heli Drop - Advanced Avi Safety and Touring

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Heli Drop - Advanced Avi Safety and Touring

The experience of a lifetime!

Day three of the course will include a Helicopter drop into some of our regions best terrain! This 3-day course is for someone who has done an into course, has spent time in the field and is looking for more information to help their decision making. There is no better way to learn the nuances of decision making than to spend time in the mountains with our experienced ACMG mountain guides, engaging in collective discussions and live time decision making as a group. You will travel extensively into complex terrain, work on transceiver techniques, and learn a wide variety of new skills.

Length

3 Days

Difficulty

Intermediate

Guide Ratio

1:5

Price

$999

Location

Coquihalla, Manning Park, Heli Drop Location.

Fitness Requirment

Moderate

Event Details

We could not be more excited to launch this program! Designed to be half experiential and half instructional you will gain all of the advanced avalanche, terrain and decision making skills you are looking for, and you will get to ride some fantastic terrain along the way! The first two days will focus on skills development in some of the best road access locations in the Coquihalla and/or Manning Park. Day three you will load up in a Helicopter in Hope and get bumped into some wild big terrain nearby. This day will be the cherry on top with fantastic views, fresh tracks and big lines to be had.

Where intro avalanche courses are designed to provide the fundamentals to start safely exploring in the Winter, this program builds on that foundation. You will be introduced to, and gain competency with the skills, knowledge, and practice to start traveling into more challenging terrain, plan and execute multi-day trips, and ski and/or ride more exciting objectives. This course is the capstone to your recreational avalanche education.

Topics covered include but are not limited to:

  • Helicopter logistics, including loading ski baskets and exiting an idling heli.
  • Transceiver skills and companion rescue using the latest transceiver technology.
  • Single and multiple person extraction will be practiced.
  • Group management skills and group dynamics and decision making will be discussed and put into practice.
  • The latest digging and probing techniques will be practiced.
  • Introduction to snowpack evaluation such as compression tests, extended compression tests, rutsch block tests, and more.
  • Weather forecasting.
  • Information documentation, snowpack analysis, and stability analysis.
  • Pre-trip information gathering.
  • Introduction to the daily trip form.
  • Refine route finding and decision making, before, during and after the day, with an emphasis on information gathering throughout the day.
  • Introduction to the latest safety gear, specifically air bag packs.

**snowshoe specific AST 2 courses can be arranged**

Upcoming Courses



Prerequisites

Good Fitness, Backcountry Experience & AST 1

Schedule

Pre-Course Zoom: 

  • Guide will give an overview and review theory.
  • Plan to do some homework during the evenings on this course as there is a lot of information to cover.

Day 1-2: Field Days – 8:30am – 4:30pm

  • Guide briefing
  • Conditions/Weather Discussion
  • Gear Check
  • Field skills and terrain exploration.

Day 3: Heli Access Touring – 7:00am4:30pm

  • Heli Breifing
  • Lift into the backcountry
  • Ski exploration
  • Ski out to vehicle shuttle.

 

Gear List

  • Skis/ Splitboard 
  • Skins
  • Avalanche Transceiver
  • Avalanche Probe
  • Shovel
  • 35+L backpack
  • Collapsible Poles
  • Appropriate Ski/ Snowboard Boots
  • Goggles 
  • Helmet
  • Ski/ Winter pants
  • Ski/ Winter jacket
  • Extra warm clothes (Down puff jacket)
  • Extra winter gloves/Hats
  • Lunch and water
  • Headlamp
  • Small first aid kit
  • Eye protection sunglass
  • Sunscreen & lip balm
  • Pocket knife
  • Lighter/matches/Flint
  • Notebook & pencil
  • Cell phone
  • Food/thermos/H2O
  • Maps/compass/GPS/altimeter (Optional)
  • If you do not have all the gear required, please let us know ASAP. Rentals are available through our partner store Mt. Waddington’s Outdoors for a 10% discount with your course purchase. 
  • It is also important that your equipment is in good repair and suitable for this course. If you have any questions about your gear, please feel free to respond to this email for guidance.

Is this course right for me?

This course is designed for those who plan to take their skills farther into the backcountry and begin to push beyond the skills covered in AST 1. This course will help you to assess terrain, and wether the conditions are right for you to ride it.

Itinerary

TBD

Booking/Cancellation Policy

Booking and Cancellation Policy

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