Field trip: Avalanche Aware // Avalanche Terrain Avoidance - Boulder
ATA Hybrid Lecture & Field Day – Caribou Ranch Open Space
If you have registered for and completed the online seminar, you may sign up for a field day to complete your ATA course and earn your badge. The morning will be a lecture session to prepare to head into the field for the afternoon.
Contacts
- Sat, Jan 9, 2027
- Boulder
- Avalanche Education
- Adults, All Who Qualify
- Easy
- 6 (7 capacity)
- Sun, Nov 1, 2026 at 6:17 PM
- Thu, Jan 7, 2027 at 5:00 PM
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
This completes the learning taking the online components and applying them in the field.
Before departing, CMC Leaders will participate in a 1-2 hour lecture that solidifies learning principles in the online portion. Following the lecture, participants will caravan to the field portion.
The field exercise allows students to use slope meters to determine potential avalanche-prone terrain and non-prone avalanche terrain as well as to determine route findings. These techniques can be taught with or without snow conditions.
We'll meet for the morning lecture at Boulder Rural Fire Rescue's classroom, then go up to Caribou for the afternoon field session.
Badges
students will earn:
Avalanche Terrain Avoidance Course
Required Equipment
Ten essentials
Layers for winter weather
Snowshoes