Columbia Brewery Backcountry Avalanche Workshop

[matosan]

The Canadian Avalanche Centre Presents

Columbia Brewery Backcountry Avalanche Workshop

 

Follow this link for details:

http://www.avalanche.ca/default.aspx?DN=352,15,3,Documents

 

 

Vancouver: Saturday Nov 19th,

Ridge Theatre 3131 Arbutus

 

9:00am - 4:30pm

 

This workshop is for you! You’re a backcountry skier, boarder, sledder or climber. Mountain adventure is important in your life and you want to enjoy your sport for many years to come. You’ve taken an avalanche course, or read some of the books, and you know that you owe it to yourself, your friends and your family to ensure your avalanche knowledge is as up to date as your mountain equipment.

 

These events provide an early season avalanche safety primer to help you start your winter right. This is an opportunity to get together with avalanche experts who will share their insights, introduce new ideas and tools, and help active winter travelers like you learn more about snow safety.

 

This year’s workshop theme is:

Outsmart the Dragon: Avalanche Risk in a Changing World

 

Learn from leading Canadian and US avalanche researchers and experts including:

Jill Fredston: author of the new book Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches and co-director of the Alaska Mountain Safety Center

 

Ken Wylie: IFMGA Guide; Adventure Guides Program, Thompson Rivers University

 

Grant Statham: IFMGA Guide; Avalanche Risk Specialist, Parks Canada

 

Lori Zacaruk: owner of Zac's Tracs Snowmobile Tours & Courses

 

Clair Israelson: Canadian Avalanche Centre

 

John Kelly: Canadian Avalanche Centre

 

Pascal Hägeli: project manager, Avalanche Decision Framework for Amateur Recreationists; owner Avisualanche Consulting

 

Bruce Jamieson: NSERC Research Chair in Snow Avalanche Risk Control, University of Calgary

 

Tickets:

$40 General Admission, $20 Students; (Student ID required upon admission)

 

* CAA & CAC Members receive a 10% discount off General Admission when they purchase tickets through www.avalanche.ca or by phoning the CAA/CAC

 

Tickets are available at Mountain Equipment Co-op stores in Vancouver & North Vancouver; Ridge Theatre Box Office, online at www.avalanche.ca, by phone at 250.837.2435, and at the door.

 

For more information visit www.avalanche.ca or call 250.837.2435

[snoboy]

I've attended the last two of these, and would highly reccomend them.

 

This year I am going to have to drive 7 hours and sacrifice some time out of another event that I want to attend, but I am likely still going - they are that good.