Friday 26th November 2021 - Full Day

Avalanche Awareness & 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:

- Anatomy of snow
- Ingredients for avalanche
- Mapping the risk
- Avalanche forecasts and interpretation
- Being Avalanche Aware
- False sense of security
- Key avalanche indicators
- Snow pits and their relevance
- Transceivers in general
- Understanding antennas
- Interference
- Transceiver checks as an IML
- Shovels & probes
- Search methods
- Practicing with single and multiple 'burials'
- Shovelling technique and its importance
- Prioritizing resources/triage
- 15-minute client training session
- Heuristics

Equipment

The workshop will be indoors for the morning and outside in the hotel grounds for a couple of hours in the afternoon so bring suitable attire for both.

Other notes or informaton

Please bring a compass, pen and paper and a transceiver with batteries. If you can, please also bring your probe and shovel so we can compare different models. There will be a couple of extra transceivers available.

Provider info

Peter is an International Mountain Leader and Norwegian Glacier Guide with 25 years of summer and winter mountaineering experience under his belt. Peter is based in Denmark and is the Technical Director for BAIML. 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 in professional development workshops for several organisations.

If you would like further information about this workshop please contact Peter directly on:

guide@mountain-environment.com

(Booking is still through CMS).

Start

26/11/2021

End

26/11/2021

Maximum Bookings

10

Bookings

9

Venue

The Royal Victoria Hotel

Town

Llanberis

County

Gwynedd

Postcode

LL55 4TY

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

53.11651

Longitude

-4.11925

Name

BAIML

Phone

01690 720 272

Email