AIARE Level 1 Avalanche Course

Search terms AIARE Level 1 Avalanche Course Avy Course L1

This 24-hour course introduces the habits that help you travel more deliberately in avalanche terrain: planning a tour, reading the forecast, identifying avalanche terrain, making observations, communicating with your group, and practicing companion rescue.

Student using a loupe to inspect snow crystals
Students learning about avalanche beacon flux lines in a field session

AIARE Level 2 Avalanche Course

Search terms AIARE 2 Level Two L2 Rescue

AIARE 2 takes the process you learned in AIARE 1 and applies it to more complex terrain, weather, and snowpack problems. You will practice making observations, reducing uncertainty, and helping lead a small group through real backcountry decisions.

Our AIARE 2 course also includes AIARE’s Avalanche Rescue one-day (8-hour) course, which is a required pre-requisite.

Avalanche course students examining layers in a snow pit
Close-up of snow crystals on a sampling card

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