Avalanche Transceiver Basics

Do you enjoy spending time in the Colorado mountains in wintertime? Do you want to expand your winter backcountry safety skills, but unsure how to start? Have you already taken an Avalanche Terrain Avoidance (ATA) class and thought, well that's enough? RSVP to this event and learn about winter safety tools that all CMC mountain adventurers should learn more about!

Larimer County Search & Rescue (LCSAR) will offer some close to home, hands-on training using avalanche safety gear. The primary focus will be an introduction and use of a modern avalanche transceiver - one of the three essential pieces of avalanche safety gear. There will be a brief discussion focused on how transceivers work and how to use them properly, then lots of opportunity to practice transceiver searching in a safe, controlled environment. If you already have a transceiver, probe pole, and shovel, bring them! If you don’t, there will be transceivers available for your use. We’ll also have a few collapsible probe poles and shovels, and talk briefly about probe deployment and shoveling techniques. 

This is not a substitute for ATA, AIRE1, or Companion Rescue courses. It is only intended to be an introduction to wintertime safety gear which everyone who recreates in the Colorado mountains should be carrying and know how to use.

Bring a headlamp and dress warm, but no special gear or experience are needed.

We’ll meet near the tennis courts in Lee Martinez Park on Tuesday, December 2 from 7-9pm.