Tour #1 - Snowdrift accumulations everywhere!

  • Key topics: Tour planning, recognizing warning signs, assessing ascent options, map reading, and evaluating individual slopes
  • Avalanche problem: Wind slab
  • Immediate expert feedback on your decisions
  • 30 questions and interactions
  • Available in German and English
  • Access: 6 months
  • Certificate
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Duration
50 minutes
30+ decisions
Language
German and English
Price
€ 49,-

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Learning objectives

Prior knowledge

What to expect

In this training you learn:

 Interpreting tour planning information and the avalanche forecast
 Route planning using touring maps and slope angle maps
 Understanding group dynamics
 Learning the graphical reduction method for risk assessment
 Avalanche transceiver check and standard safety procedures
 Recognizing warning signs and understanding their relationship to the avalanche forecast
 Terrain navigation and map reading
 Individual slope assessments
 Replanning and assessing alternative routes
 Descent strategies and safe regrouping points
 Reading and understanding the avalanche forecast
 Knowing the five-level avalanche danger scale
 Understanding the different avalanche problems
 Assessing terrain
 Knowledge of risk reduction and risk management
 Reading maps and slope angle maps

Just like a job description, you do not need to meet every requirement. However, this list will help you assess which theoretical foundations you should have in order to answer the questions in the training.
Join Johanna, Gustav and Philipp and help them plan their tour the day before. You will answer questions about the avalanche forecast and the meaning of the danger levels. Use the graphical reduction method to plan and assess the different ascent options.

Once the tour begins, you will learn about the avalanche transceiver check and potential sources of interference. The group crosses an avalanche path, and you must assess the risk. Help them read the map, identify slope angles and recognize warning signs. You will also reflect on group dynamics and how they influence decision-making.

Compare different ascent options and use an individual slope assessment to analyse the final slope leading to the summit. You will also assess alternative descent routes, identify safe regrouping points and discuss the best descent strategy.

Your Mountain Guide on the Tour

Philipp Leodolter

Certified mountain guide
With his extensive knowledge and teaching experience, Philipp guided the tour, helped Johanna, Gustav and Archy make the right decisions, and explains all the key issues throughout the training.

Recommended Devices

You can complete all our training courses on any device—including a smartphone. However, we do not recommend it. Our digital training is about applying your knowledge to real-life situations, making good decisions and reflecting on them afterwards. This requires concentration, time and your full attention.

Our tip: Get comfortable at home with your favourite drink and train on a tablet, laptop or desktop computer. Learn more. Make better decisions. Stay safe.

Access Period

Learn at your own pace, whenever and wherever you want, without the pressure of a subscription. Pay once and enjoy full access to your avalanche training for six months. This gives you maximum flexibility with no recurring costs.
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