Backcountry Avalanche Workshop 2006

It's almost about time to wax your skis and snowboards, and it's certainly the time to refresh or to learn how to play it safe. Starting next month Canadian Avalanche Centre will be running its annual workshops about backcountry and avalanche safety. Based on our experience from last year the workshops feature highly qualified speakers and avalanche professionals. We encourage everyone who skis, snowboards of rides a sled to come and learn.

How you benefit

This year the workshops are promised to give us, backcountry adventurers, even more than in the past. According to Canadian Avalanche Centre "the Backcountry Avalanche Workshops will include interactive exercisesand instructional lectures taught by Canadian Avalanche Centre Avalanche Forecasters and Canadian Avalanche Association Level 1 and Level 2 instructors. You will also get an Avaluator, the brand new tool for making decisions in avalanche country."

Besides the learning benefit you will meet a lot's of new people that have the same hobbies like you. And at the end of the day you can all enjoy few beers and plan your next big adventure or just talk about awesome powder days that will come.

Tickets, dates and locations

The tickets will be $20 and you will be able to purchase them at the door. The capacity of each venue should hold up to 150 people.

This year's Backcountry Avalanche Workshop will visit three towns in BC and Alberta:

Nelson - November 18 - Best Western

Whistler - November 25 - Whistler Secondary

Canmore - December 3 - Radisson Hotel

For more information visit Canadian Avalanche Association or call the Canadian Avalanche Centre a call at 250-837-2141.

Avalanche safety basics online

To refresh your knowledge of a safe backcountry travel visit these pages on our website:

June 25, 2007 | read
Alex Shockley summits Denali

May 19, 2007 | read
Snow avalanche videos from Youtube.com

May 9, 2007 | read
Canadian Ski Mountaineering National Rankings 2007

April 27, 2007 | read
Backcountry Safety wins the first ever Canadian Ski Mountaineering Champs

April 10, 2007 | read
Alex going for Denali

January 9, 2007 | read
All mountains are beautiful, but no mountain is worth dying for

January 2, 2007 | read
Avalanche Awareness Days - January 2007

Dec. 12, 2006 | read
Avaluator - how to use it?

Nov. 26, 2006 | read
Avaluator - avalanche accident prevention card

October 14, 2006 | read
Backcountry Avalanche Workshop 2006

Sept. 24, 2006 | read
RECCO Avalanche Rescue System

Sept. 09, 2006 | read
Avalanche beacons - frequency drift - important!

August 26, 2006 | read
“Why did he entered the slope when he knew the conditions were dangerous?”

August 14, 2006 | read
Rogers Pass the world's largest avalanche control program

July 21, 2006 | read
Backcountry avalanche safety - reducing the risk