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:

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 scope of the IML in winter and suitable terrain

Afternoon

- Transceivers in general

- Understanding antennas

- Interference

- Transceiver checks as an IML

- Choice of 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.

Peter Chapman 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 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.

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

Start

26/11/2023 09:00

End

26/11/2023 16:30

Maximum Bookings

12

Bookings

12

Venue

The Hawkhills

Town

Easingwold

County

Yorkshire

Postcode

YO61 3EG

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

54.10076

Longitude

-1.17887

Name

BAIML

Phone

01690 720 272

Email