Workshop or Session Description:
Day 1:
Avalanche Avoidance, Awareness and skills Avalanche report analysis (Meteo France)
-Google translate: how good is it?
-Key words translated in context and explored -Analysis of the rose
-Importance of history and local knowledge
Day on the ground with sessions on
-transceiver checks (start of day, range and group) -route choice
-terrain traps
-snow profiles for education
-slope angle estimation
-transceiver searches
-teaching use of TPS to clients
-probe line search
Evening Lecture on different types of avalanches
Day 2
Quality Mountain Day / more winter IML skills
Planning (maps, distances, snow history, slopes, weather, local knowledge etc)
Daily and dynamic risk assessments
Winter belays/problem solving
Kicking/cutting steps
Provider: Active IMLs running own international trekking and snowshoe holidays based out of own accommodation in the French Pyrenees.
Leaders on the TMB/Dolomites/Haute Route
Freelance instructing on winter skills/climbing courses with ATC and AAC in the UK
Venue: Lesparrou Retreats and Adventures, Lesparrou,09300, France
Equipment:
Snow Shoes
TPS
Walking rope Slings & karabinas Poles
Axe
Normal IML safety kit if taking out clients Appropriate winter clothing/boots/gear
CPD Points accredited to Full Members only:
BAIML: 2.00 Core
MTA: 2.00
AMI: TBC
BMG: N/A
Cost: £200.00 made payable directly to the Provider.