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 is now offering a 1-day avalanche refresher course. This field based course is intended for individuals who have taken an AIARE or A3 (American Avalanche Association) avalanche course and will help you to hone in and refresh on the topics covered in a Level 1, Level 2, or Avalanche Rescue course. These classes will be ran as private courses so get your touring partners together and let the seasoned instructors and guides at CAG help to refresh your backcountry avalanche skills this winter! Did you take an avalanche course years ago and need some refreshing? Have you taken an AIARE or A3 (American Avalanche Association) avalanche course recently and want help applying all of the information to actually getting out and making decisions in the backcountry? Dial in your decision making framework, snowpack assessment skills, terrain management, group dynamics, avalanche rescue skills, and more! Get a few of your regular backcountry touring partners together and book a a day with guide/instructor for private learning and touring. The day can be tailored to the skills you want to spend the most time on, from trip planning to route selection, field observations to snowpack analysis, or simply just learning how to execute a ski tour from beginning to end and finding the best conditions. If you took your AIARE 1 or 2 with us, take an extra 15% off of your trip cost!

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.

AIARE Avalanche Rescue
COMPANION RESCUE
A Stand-Alone Course To Be Retaken Regularly

AIARE Avalanche Rescue is a one-day stand-alone course that is intended to be retaken regularly to keep abreast of best practices in rescue techniques and gear. New participants will learn the basics of companion rescue, while returning participants will expand their skill set with advanced topics and realistic scenario practice to help improve their skills. In addition, each participant will have the opportunity to receive professional coaching and feedback on their rescue skills. All students will receive a rescue card acknowledging the completion date.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
- At the end of the Avalanche Rescue course the student should be able to:
- Describe what to do if they or a member of their party is caught in an avalanche.
- Identify and be able to use gear necessary for avalanche rescue.
- Set up a realistic scenario in order to practice an avalanche rescue response.
- Improve their response skills and times during and after the course with feedback from instructors and peers.
- Develop a plan for continuing practice.

AIARE Avalanche Rescue is a prerequisite for the AIARE 2 and Pro 1 courses.

AIARE recommends that all backcountry travelers keep their skills current by taking an Avalanche Rescue Course and receiving a rescue card at least every other year.

If the course date you are interested in is sold out, please contact us to get on the waitlist.

AIARE 1
DECISION MAKING IN AVALANCHE TERRAIN
Ski & Splitboard Only

(Snowshoers Please See Our Snowshoe Specific Course)

AIARE 1 is a three-day / 24-hour introduction to avalanche hazard management. Students can expect to develop a good grounding in how to prepare for and carry out a backcountry trip, to understand basic decision making while in the field, and to learn rescue techniques required to find and dig up a buried person (if an avalanche occurs and someone in the party is caught).

LEARNING OUTCOMES
- At the end of the AIARE 1 course, the student should be able to:
- Develop a plan for travel in avalanche terrain
- Demonstrate the ability to identify avalanche terrain
- Effectively use The AIARE Risk Management Framework to make terrain choices in a group setting
- Demonstrate effective companion rescue

Aspiring professionals need to take AIARE 1 and Avalanche Rescue as a prerequisite for the Pro 1 course.

If the course date you are interested in is sold out, please contact us to get on the waitlist.