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. Course formats include our standard AIARE 1 courses held in the Summit County Area and Front Range Area (Loveland to Berthoud Passes), hut-based courses in 5 different huts, lift-accessed courses with our partner Winter Park Resort, splitboard-specifc courses, and women’s-specific courses.

Colorado Adventure Guides offers Hut-Based AIARE 1 Avalanche Courses! This 24-hour course is an introduction to managing avalanche hazard where you will learn a repeatable process to manage your risk and learn from your experiences in the backcountry. What sets our hut based AIARE courses apart from the others? Not only do we offer the course in an immaculate backcountry hut, we also provide the meals! By choosing the hut-based setting, you’ll have the opportunity to pick your instructors brains during fireside chats in the evening. Imagine spending the weekend with avalanche professionals in the backcountry, learning about snow safety while sipping tea in front of a crackling wood stove. Backcountry skiing or snowboarding right to the hut to enjoy a cold beer while debriefing the day. Students will 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, and how to execute a winter backcounty hut trip!

Colorado Adventure Guides offers AIARE 2 Avalanche Courses in Central Colorado. This 3-day course provides backcountry leaders the opportunity to advance their avalanche knowledge and decision-making skills. The AIARE 2 builds on the introductory avalanche hazard management model introduced in the AIARE 1 Avalanche Course and adds to it the evaluation of critical hazard assessment factors. All students must have taken an AIARE 1, Avalanche Rescue, and have 1 season of practical experience after taking the AIARE 1 course. Our second AIARE 2 course will be ran via snow camping and will be based out of the Montezuma area in Peru Creek. This area held mining operations in the late 1870s pulling out about every kind of valuable mineral in these mountains: gold, silver, lead, copper and zinc. It operated until 1908 and then continued sporadically until the 1940s. This area is very popular with 4WD enthusiast in the summer, but becomes a winter wonderland for snowshoers and backcountry skiers/riders in the winter while providing an incredible opportunity for avalanche terrain study. Students and instructors will camp in this beautiful area via snow shelters or tents to enjoy the full experience of winter backcountry travel and also do so in a more controlled environment.

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. Course formats include our standard AIARE 1 courses held in the Summit County Area and Front Range Area (Loveland to Berthoud Passes), hut-based courses in 5 different huts, lift-accessed courses with our partner Winter Park Resort, splitboard-specifc courses, and women’s-specific courses.

Colorado Adventure Guides offers Hut-Based AIARE 1 Avalanche Courses! This 24-hour course is an introduction to managing avalanche hazard where you will learn a repeatable process to manage your risk and learn from your experiences in the backcountry. What sets our hut based AIARE courses apart from the others? Not only do we offer the course in an immaculate backcountry hut, we also provide the meals! By choosing the hut-based setting, you’ll have the opportunity to pick your instructors brains during fireside chats in the evening. Imagine spending the weekend with avalanche professionals in the backcountry, learning about snow safety while sipping tea in front of a crackling wood stove. Backcountry skiing or snowboarding right to the hut to enjoy a cold beer while debriefing the day. Students will 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, and how to execute a winter backcounty hut trip!

Colorado Adventure Guides teaches AIARE AVALANCHE RESCUE. In this one-day (8-hour) course, new participants will learn how to rescue a companion caught in an avalanche. We’ll focus on the gear and responding. Returning students will expand their skills and knowledge with advanced topics and realistic scenario practice. This class should be retaken regularly to keep abreast of the best practices in rescue techniques and gear.

Colorado Adventure Guides teaches AIARE AVALANCHE RESCUE. In this one-day (8-hour) course, new participants will learn how to rescue a companion caught in an avalanche. We’ll focus on the gear and responding. Returning students will expand their skills and knowledge with advanced topics and realistic scenario practice. This class should be retaken regularly to keep abreast of the best practices in rescue techniques and gear.

Colorado Adventure Guides teaches AIARE AVALANCHE RESCUE. In this one-day (8-hour) course, new participants will learn how to rescue a companion caught in an avalanche. We’ll focus on the gear and responding. Returning students will expand their skills and knowledge with advanced topics and realistic scenario practice. This class should be retaken regularly to keep abreast of the best practices in rescue techniques and gear.

Colorado Adventure Guides teaches AIARE AVALANCHE RESCUE. In this one-day (8-hour) course, new participants will learn how to rescue a companion caught in an avalanche. We’ll focus on the gear and responding. Returning students will expand their skills and knowledge with advanced topics and realistic scenario practice. This class should be retaken regularly to keep abreast of the best practices in rescue techniques and gear.

Colorado Adventure Guides teaches AIARE AVALANCHE RESCUE. In this one-day (8-hour) course, new participants will learn how to rescue a companion caught in an avalanche. We’ll focus on the gear and responding. Returning students will expand their skills and knowledge with advanced topics and realistic scenario practice. This class should be retaken regularly to keep abreast of the best practices in rescue techniques and gear.