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Climbing Life Guides announces its winter and spring offerings in Avalanche Education and Backcountry Skiing.
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ClimbingLife Guides
2012 Winter
Avalanche and Ski
Outings:
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Alison and Rick kicking steps up the Trough Couloir, Longs Peak.
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Colorado has one of the most dangerous snowpacks in the United States due to its cold and dry climate, low snow depths, and wind affected layers.
All of our avalanche education courses are taught in the high country of Rocky Mountain National Park which is the ideal training ground for mountain enthusiasts of all abilities and backgrounds.
We focus on learning practical methods and tools to assist in making the most objective-based decisions in what are life and death decisions regularly for backcountry snowmobilers, skiers, boarders, mountaineers and ice climbers.
All of our instructional staff are trained by AIARE and apprentice with Eli Helmuth, an AMGA certified Ski Mountaineering &Alpine Guide, AIARE Level 3 certified, and Level 1 & 2 Course Director. Eli has been an AMGA Guide Trainer since 1999 and all of our staff are highly skilled alpine-touring and split-boarder professionals.
In these small classes we are able to explore in-depth the snowpack, weather, and terrain factors which directly relate to the likelihood of an avalanche occurring. Through hands-on experiences and travel through the alpine backcountry, we can explore a variety of avalanche terrain and maximize our experiential learning in a personalized setting.
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The Level 1 AIARE Avalanche Course includes:
- Twenty seven hours of hands-on curriculum and backcountry outings in Rocky Mountain National Park, traveling in a small group through treeline and alpine terrain.
- Private instruction and coaching by AIARE trained instructors and courses managed by Eli Helmuth, one of the Front Range's most experienced avalanche educators and mountain guides.
- Practice with beacons and avalanche rescue techniques.
- Snow pit location, excavation, and analysis.
- Study of weather, snowpack and slope configurations and how they directly relate to avalanche potential and route choices.
- Practice of safer travel techniques and objective group decision-making techniques in avalanche terrain.
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AIARE Level 1 Avalanche Course
Course Length: 3 days
Price: $325
Location: Rocky Mountain National Park
Meets at: Estes Park Mountain Shop, 8am
Dates:
Dec. 16-18 Sold Out
Jan. 6-8 Sold Out
Jan. 13-15 Sold Out
Jan. 20-22
Feb. 3-5
Feb. 10-12
Feb. 17-19
Feb. 24-26
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Please call with questions or to register for an avalanche or ski outing:
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ClimbingLife Guides is an authorized permittee of Rocky Mountain National Park, Eldorado Canyon State Park, and Denali National Park and Preserve.
Eli Helmuth is an AMGA Certified Rock, Alpine, and Ski Mountaineering Guide and IFMGA Licensed Mountain Guide in his 22nd year of full-time guiding and mountain instruction.
For more information on avalanche education and backcountry skiing seminars in
Rocky Mountain National Park, visit our website at:
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www.guide.climbinglife.com
©2012 ClimbingLife Guides, All Rights Reserved.
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