These are programs for those not only aspiring to become professional guides but also for those who want to expand their horizons and gain high level skills that will enhance the safety of their adventures into the backcountry and also provide them with the tools to take care of emergencies without being reliant upon others.
Wilderness First Responder Training
Designed specifically for outdoor professionals and individuals who participate in outdoor sports, particularly mountain-based activities, this 80 hour course provides you with the tools to make critical medical and evacuation decisions in remote locations. Half of your time will be spent completing practical skills, case studies and scenarios designed to challenge your decision-making abilities.
Wilderness First Responder Recertification
Are your wilderness medicine protocols on the tip of your tongue or in the bottom of your pack? This three day scenario-based course is designed as review and practice of evacuation and decision making guidelines. It also provides wilderness medicine practitioners with current updates in the wilderness medicine field
AMGA Top Rope Site Manager Course
This American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA) course is for all outdoor instructors, aspiring guides, and climbers who facilitate top rope climbing programs in group settings. The program emphasizes the technical and educational proficiency necessary to safely and professionally instruct rock climbing and climbing related activities in a group setting and is intended to help transition recreational climbers into becoming model climbing instructors. Course instructor Todd Vogel is one of the original providers of this course.
AMGA Rock Instructor Course
This program is sanctioned by the AMGA and represents the first level of training necessary to pass the AMGA Rock Guide exam. SP Parker, an examiner for the AMGA, is an instructor for the course and was one of the creators of the "official" AMGA curriculum for the rock guides courses.
AMGA Alpine Guides Course
This program is sanctioned by the AMGA and represents the second level of training for an alpine guide. SP Parker, an examiner for the AMGA, is an instructor for the course and was one of the creators of the original alpine guides courses.
Self-Rescue Training
Do you know what to do should your partner fall and get hurt? Too few climbers do. Instead of relying upon outside help and assistance, we should all take the responsibility for being in the mountains and climbing by being prepared to do a self-rescue if necessary. Raising, lowering and belay escapes are all integral parts of this but are all skills that are nearly impossible to learn from a book. The only way is hands on practice and we aim to include plenty of this as well as discussions of how to avoid getting into this situation to start with.
Avalanche Courses
To travel safely in the winter backcountry you must have the ability to recognize avalanche terrain, judge and assess the dangers and also know emergency procedures should an avalanche occur. We are offer three levels to help you expand and hone these essential snow-travel skills. All of our courses follow the guidelines and standards of the AAA (American Avalanche Association) and AIARE (American Institue for Avalanche Research and Education) certification.
• Level I Avalanche Course 3 Days
The objective of this course is to provide you with the fundamental skills necessary to make appropriate decisions while traveling in the winter backcountry. In three very full days we will cover numerous topics including; identification of avalanche terrain, identification of weak layers, performing field instability tests, weather factors, route selection, and the use of emergency equipment such as beacons and probes.
• Level II Avalanche Course 4 Days
This course expands and elaborates on the basic skills of Level I, emphasizing snow pit analysis and evaluation in the field. The goals are to understand the variability and complexity of avalanche terrain, identify snow types and the processes or conditions that lead to them, performing instability tests and to apply objective decision making while traveling through avalanche terrain.
• Level III Avalanche Course 5 Days
This course represents the highest level of snow stability training available in the US. This level is the standard for outdoor professionals and guides. This course emphasizes judgment-based decision making rather then the protocol based basis of the Level I and II courses and focuses on stability and forecasting. Class size is very limited to ensure quality instruction.
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