Recreational and Professional Courses

AVI 1

Do you Ski / Board out of bounds, off the trails, or into the backcountry?
If so an AAT1 is the perfect place to start your backcountry education. You don't need any backcountry experience to take this course.
The AAT1 is the perfect starting point for those thinking of entering the backcountry or slack country . In this course we will teach you how to behave in a safe manner while understanding if you are in avalanche terrain or not. An AAT1 is a two-day course with I day of classroom (theory) and one day for field training. 
It is highly recommended that you do this course with the people that you regularly tour with.
Remember that an AAT1 course is a recreational course, it is the beginning of your avalanche education journey.
What you will learn in an AAT1:

• Avalanches, what, how, why, and when.
• How to know if you are touring in avalanche terrain.
• Understanding how to interpret the local avalanche bulletin.
• Using of tools and resources to mitigate your avalanche risk.
• Victim rescue training using beacon, shovel and probe.
• Basic snow pack testing. 

The AAT1 or AST1 course is a prerequisite to take part in further Avalanche Australia training.
All student will recieve membership to Avalanche Australia after completing course. 
Learn more about AAT2 and Victim Rescue Training below.

Avalanche Awareness Training 1

A$350.00

Do you Ski / Board out of bounds, off the trails, or into the backcountry?

If so an AAT1 is the perfect place to start your backcountry education. You don't need any backcountry experience to take this course.

The AAT1 is the perfect starting point for those thinking of entering the backcountry or slack country. In this course we will teach you how to behave in a safe manner while understanding if you are in avalanche terrain or not. An AAT1 is a two-day course with I day of classroom (theory) and one day for field training. 

It is highly recommended that you do this course with the people that you regularly tour with.

Remember that an AAT1 course is a recreational course, it is the beginning of your avalanche education journey.

What you will learn in an AAT1:

• Avalanches, what, how, why, and when.
• How to know if you are touring in avalanche terrain.
• Understanding how to interpret the local avalanche bulletin.
• Using of tools and resources to mitigate your avalanche risk.
• Victim rescue training using beacon, shovel and probe.
• Basic snow pack testing. 

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AVI 2

Once you have completed your AAT1 or AST1 and have done a season using your new skills , why not continue your learning and complete AAT2? 
The AAT2 course takes you to a new level of avalanche awareness. It will teach more advanced snowpack analysis tools and tests.  During your 3 days of field time you will be doing more hands-on learning to enable you to be safer backcountry traveller. This comprises 1 classroom day to do over some AAT2 material, with some more advanced snow science being offered too.
Days 2-4 will be solely in the field learning advanced techniques to keep you safe and allowing to you make better informed decision while backcountry touring.

Learning outcomes for the AAT2 course include:

• Advance trip planning and snowpack assessment.
• Applying the regional danger rating to your days touring or coming up with a danger rating if no regional forecast is supplied.
• Advanced victim rescue training looking for multiple victims (4).
• Adding more snow testing techniques to those learnt in AAT1.

All student will receive membership to Avalanche Australia after completing course. ​

Avalanche Awareness Training 2

A$900.00

Once you have completed your AAT1 or AST1 and have done a season using your new skills , why not continue your learning and complete AAT2? 

The AAT2 course takes you to a new level of avalanche awareness. It will teach more advanced snowpack analysis tools and tests. During your 3 days of field time you will be doing more hands-on learning to enable you to be safer backcountry traveller. This comprises 1 classroom day to do over some AAT2 material, with some more advanced snow science being offered too.

Days 2-4 will be solely in the field learning advanced techniques to keep you safe and allowing to you make better informed decision while backcountry touring.

Learning outcomes for the ATL 2 course include:

• Advance trip planning and snowpack assessment.
• Applying the regional danger rating to your days touring or coming up with a danger rating if no regional forecast is supplied.
• Advance victim rescue training looking for multiple victims (4).
• Adding more snow testing techniques to those learnt in Level 1 training.

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AVI 3

Avalanche Awareness Training 2

Professional Avalanche training for persons looking to work in the snow industry. Available to Avalanche Australia Bronze members. 

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Advanced Rescue Training

Advanced Rescue Training is a 1-day course that is normally an add on to AAT1. This 1-day course will dive deep into beacon technology and explain the way’s signals are sent and received from avalanche beacons and the different software that each manufacture deploys to find victims. This course also includes the methods and strategies to deal with multiple victim searches (4).
All student will recieve membership to Avalanche Australia after completing course. ​

Advanced Rescue Training

A$300.00

Advanced Rescue Training is a 1-day course that is normally an add on to AAT1. This 1-day course will dive deep into beacon technology and explain the way’s signals are sent and received from avalanche beacons and the different software that each manufacture deploys to find victims. This course also includes the methods and strategies to deal with multiple victim searches (4).

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