Avalanche Level Two Course
-Link season weather history and relevant snowpack processes to current snowpack structure and layering.
-Use local avalanche advisory as well as other resources available - remote weather stations, reports, and forecasts.
-Create an avalanche hazard assessment without a local advisory.
-Prioritize relevancy of observations and snowpack tests based on avalanche hazard and problem(s) and apply at a local scale. Key record keeping.
-Gain deeper understanding of avalanche formation, triggering, and release mechanisms, including links to Avalanche Problems.
-Recognize and manage risk: human factors, motivations, objectives, and limitations - through planning and communication.
-Apply tools for planning, decision-making, and travel with consideration of group risk management and awareness of safe margins.
-Practice travel protocols and techniques to mitigate risk exposure in a variety of avalanche terrain situations and challenges.
-Course size of 5 total students.
