Custom courses & personal guiding

Example advanced ski-touring course content

The course allows the skier to move safely on glaciers and in steeper alpine environment. The participant will learn to make safe choices and judgments on the mountain in terms of tour planning, glacier travel, navigation, routing-finding, and avalanches. Among other things, the course contains:

• Equipment: Examination of special equipment such as harness, ropes and crampons and the advantages and disadvantages of different types of equipment, etc.
• Training with equipment: How do you get past the crux and passages with the help of a harness, rope, ice-axe and crampons?
• Offpist technic: How to ski steep terrain in different snow conditions etc.
• Tour planning: Time management, risk analysis and risk assessment etc.
• Glacier knowledge: Route finding, glacier travel and glacier rescue.
• Navigation: How to navigate with map and compass in dense fog?
• Avalanche knowledge: How to avoid avalanche danger area, efficiently search and rescue with transceiver, probe and shovel.

Avalanche course content

For skiers who want to have theoretical and practical knowledge of avalanches and use of safety equipment. The course aims to increase the understanding of the underlying factors that make avalanches occur and how skiers can minimize their risk exposure and risk assessments. During the course, much focus will be placed on studying the snow layer, decision making and use of the transceiver and probe. The course also contains a lot of skiing in back-country environment and the guide will take you beyond the ski-patrol area. The course will teach participants the phenomenon of avalanches. Furthermore, the course will provide knowledge of how to make safe choices in the steeper alpine environment with respect to the terrain and avalanche danger. Among other things, the course include:

• General avalanche knowledge: What is an avalanche, how does it occur?
• Equipment: Review of transceiver, shovel, probe and the advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of brands etc.
• Rescue: Efficiently and quickly use with the transceiver. Tactics and cooperation. Effectively use the shovel and probe.
• Snow knowledge: Assessment of avalanche danger along the analysis of the different layers in the snow.
• Terrain choice: How do you get the best snow safe as possible?