Hybrid course with Zoom lectures on the Tues & Thurs evenings before the field days

Colorado Adventure Guides offers AIARE 1 Avalanche Courses in Central Colorado. AIARE 1 Avalanche Course is a 3-day introduction to managing avalanche hazard where you will learn a repeatable process to manage your risk and learn from your experiences in the backcountry. Students will also practice preparing for and carrying out a backcountry trip, keeping track of conditions, communicating, making decisions about hazards while in the backcountry, and learning rescue techniques if an avalanche occurs and someone is caught. 

Our AIARE 1 Avalanche Courses are a minimum of 24 hours within a 3-Day in-person course. Our courses combine advance e-learning, classroom, and field instruction to introduce participants to the hazards of traveling in avalanche terrain. Your education is of upmost importance to us. We make sure that you get the learning time that you need, and we don’t cut corners in delivering the best training to maximize your commitment! We offer a variety of course options and have a vast amount of terrain to choose from. Back again for this season we have partnered up with Winter Park Ski Resort to offer lift-accessed AIARE 1 courses! These courses will be ran in the traditional 3-day format as other courses, but the field days will be based out of the resort where the team will use lifts to access out of bounds terrain. These courses will still have touring components outside of the resort boundaries and so touring gear is still required. Lift passes not included.

Hybrid course with Zoom lectures on the Tues & Thurs evenings before the field days

Hybrid course with Zoom lectures on the Tues & Thurs evenings before the field days

Hut Trip. More info to come

The BVMA AIARE 1 is a three-day course where backcountry skiers and splitboarders learn tour planning, terrain recognition, a decision making framework, and basic companion rescue.