Recreational and Professional Courses
ALPS 1
Introduction to Backcountry Ski Touring
Foundational Training for Human-Powered Winter Travel
This nationally recognized Introduction to Backcountry Ski Touring course provides the fundamental skills, knowledge, and decision-making frameworks required for safe and efficient travel in non-glaciated alpine terrain. It is designed for individuals seeking to develop independent touring skills or as a prerequisite for further technical and avalanche training.
This course combines theory-based instruction with practical field application to support the development of foundational competencies across five key domains: equipment, movement, navigation, hazard awareness, and backcountry travel systems.
Foundational Training for Human-Powered Winter Travel
This nationally recognized Introduction to Backcountry Ski Touring course provides the fundamental skills, knowledge, and decision-making frameworks required for safe and efficient travel in non-glaciated alpine terrain. It is designed for individuals seeking to develop independent touring skills or as a prerequisite for further technical and avalanche training.
This course combines theory-based instruction with practical field application to support the development of foundational competencies across five key domains: equipment, movement, navigation, hazard awareness, and backcountry travel systems.
ALPS 2
Advanced Backcountry Ski Touring
Applied Skills for Complex Terrain & Decision-Making
Course Overview
The Advanced Backcountry Ski Touring course is designed for experienced skiers and splitboarders seeking to refine their technical travel skills, deepen their terrain assessment capabilities, and operate more independently in complex, unmanaged alpine environments.
Building upon foundational backcountry and avalanche training, this course emphasizes route-finding in challenging terrain, advanced movement techniques, and real-time group management and risk assessment. It prepares participants for high-consequence decision-making, extended tours, and progression into glaciated travel, multi-day objectives, or professional pathways.
Applied Skills for Complex Terrain & Decision-Making
Course Overview
The Advanced Backcountry Ski Touring course is designed for experienced skiers and splitboarders seeking to refine their technical travel skills, deepen their terrain assessment capabilities, and operate more independently in complex, unmanaged alpine environments.
Building upon foundational backcountry and avalanche training, this course emphasizes route-finding in challenging terrain, advanced movement techniques, and real-time group management and risk assessment. It prepares participants for high-consequence decision-making, extended tours, and progression into glaciated travel, multi-day objectives, or professional pathways.
AVI 1
Do you Ski / Board out of bounds, off the trails, or into the backcountry?
If so an AVI 1 is the perfect place to start your backcountry education. You don't need any backcountry experience to take this course.
The AVI 1 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 AVI 1 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 AVI 1 course is a recreational course, it is the beginning of your avalanche education journey.
What you will learn in an AVI 1:
All student will recieve membership to Avalanche Australia after completing course.
Learn more about AVI 2 and Advanced Rescue Training below.
If so an AVI 1 is the perfect place to start your backcountry education. You don't need any backcountry experience to take this course.
The AVI 1 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 AVI 1 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 AVI 1 course is a recreational course, it is the beginning of your avalanche education journey.
What you will learn in an AVI 1:
- 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.
All student will recieve membership to Avalanche Australia after completing course.
Learn more about AVI 2 and Advanced Rescue Training below.
AVI 2
Once you have completed your AVI 1 or AST1 and have done a season using your new skills , why not continue your learning and complete AVI 2?
The AVI 2 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 AVI 2 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 AVI 2 course include:
All student will receive membership to Avalanche Australia after completing course.
The AVI 2 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 AVI 2 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 AVI 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.
- Advanced victim rescue training looking for multiple victims (4).
- Adding more snow testing techniques to those learnt in AVI 1.
All student will receive membership to Avalanche Australia after completing course.
AVI 3
Avalanche Awareness Training 2
Professional Avalanche training for persons looking to work in the snow industry. Available to Avalanche Australia Bronze members.
Advanced Rescue Training
Advanced Rescue Training is a 1-day course that is normally an add on to AVI 1. 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.
All student will recieve membership to Avalanche Australia after completing course.
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