Friday 25th November 2022

Avalanche Awareness & Transceiver Training (full day session)

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

- Key avalanche indicators

- Snow pits and their relevance

- Transceivers in general

- Understanding antennas

- Interference

- Transceiver checks as an International Mountain Leader

- Shovels & probes

- Practicing with single and multiple 'burials' - methods

- Shovelling technique and its importance

- Prioritizing resources/triage

- 15-minute client training session

- Heuristics and false sense of security

 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.

Equipment needed

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 Details

The workshop will be delivered by Peter Chapman who 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 Scandinavia 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 for several organisations. He has also delivered courses with Manuel Genswein for aspirant and qualified leaders.

Start

25/11/2022 09:00

End

25/11/2022 16:00

Total Days

1

Maximum Bookings

12

Bookings

11

Venue

Palace Hotel Buxton

Town

Buxton

County

Derbyshire

Postcode

SK17 6AG

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

53.26099

Longitude

-1.91539

Name

BAIML

Phone

01690 720 272

Email