Avalanche Awareness and Transceiver Training
Avalanche is probably the greatest potential danger the winter hill-goer is exposed too and understanding avalanche mechanisms and security as a group leader is paramount. The workshop will cover a lot of information from theory to practical tasks and training exercises to help understanding and learning. The workshop is designed to run without snow. During the workshop we will cover the following areas:
Morning
- Ingredients for avalanche
- Mapping the risk
- Anatomy of snow
- Avalanche forecasts and interpretation
- Being Avalanche Aware
- Key avalanche indicators
- Snow pits and their relevance
- The UIMLA Standard and IML terrain
Afternoon
- Transceivers in general
- Uderstanding antennas
- Interference
- Transceiver checks as an IML
- Shovels & probes
- Practicing with single and multiple 'burials' - methods
- Shovelling technique and its importance
- Prioritizing resources/triage
- Heuristics and false sense of security
The workshop will be indoors for the morning and outside in the grounds for a couple of hours in the afternoon so bring suitable attire for both.
Provider
- Peter Chapman
Peter is an IML and Norwegian Glacier Guide with 25 years of summer and winter mountaineering experience under his belt. Peter is based in Scandinavia and has been the Technical Director of BAIML for 4 years. He is also a member of the UIMLA Technical Commission and has been leading the work to update the UIMLA Standard. He works mostly in the Nordic countries, Scotland and Greenland but also farther afield. Winter is his favourite environment, and he has previously taught avalanche skills on many private courses and for several organisations. He has also delivered courses with Manuel Genswein for both aspirants and qualified leaders.
guide@mountain-environment.com
+45 20612924
Workshop Details
Location :- Inside and Out
Duration :- Full Day (6 hr)
Equipment :- Please bring a compass or ruler, pen and paper and a transceiver with batteries. If you can, please also bring a shovel so we can compare different models. There will be extra transceivers available.