Avalanche Education Course
CMC State AIARE Avalanche Rescue
AIARE Avalanche Rescue is a one-day stand alone course that teaches best practices in avalanche rescue techniques and gear. Whether it is your first foray into avalanche education or a veteran of avalanche courses and experienced, you'll benefit from a day in the snow practicing life-saving skills and coaching from AIARE Instructors.
Contacts
- Sun, Feb 22, 2026
- Committee: CMC State
- Members: $150.00
- Availability: 6 (6 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
CMC STATE AVALANCHE RESCUE COURSE: AR.c3, 2026.2.22 - Berthoud Pass
One minute, you and your friends are enjoying a blue bird day skiing the backcountry. The next minute an avalanche sweeps down and takes a few of your friends down with it. Would you know what to do? Would you be efficient with your avalanche rescue gear and timely to get to your buddies? You want to know the answers before it happens. A good place to start is with the American Institute of Avalanche Research and Education, AIARE. Their Avalanche Rescue course will give you the skills, experience and confidence to manage an avalanche rescue.
AIARE Avalanche Rescue is a one-day course that is intended to be retaken on a regular basis in order to keep abreast of best practices in rescue techniques and gear. Participants will spend the day in the field receiving instruction on and practicing companion rescue. Field scenarios gives each participant an opportunity to role-role play in multiple search and rescue operations; while receiving instructor coaching throughout. The small instructor to student ratio, 1:6, ensures each participant is achieving the course goals and their own personal goals. In addition to the field day, there is an online learning component.
Course details will be sent to students two weeks prior to the course.
Course outcomes include solid practice opportunities to improve rescue efficiency and rescue times. Experience working in simple and more complex burial scenarios.
Upon successful completion of the course, participants receive an AIARE companion rescue card acknowledging the completion date.
AIARE Avalanche Rescue is a prerequisite for AIARE 2. In addition, AIARE recommends that all backcountry travelers keep their skills current by taking an Avalanche Rescue course every other year. CMC requires AIARE AR or AIARE L1 every 5 years to refresh and update skills for CMC leaders and instructors who lead or instruct in avalanche terrain.
Your AIARE AR Instructor Leader is Uwe Sartori
CMC Members who travel in and around avalanche terrain, this course is for you.
Have questions? Email Uwe Sartori.
Badges you will earn:
AIARE Avalanche Rescue Course
| Course Activity | Date | Availability | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Field Day | |||
| Berthoud Pass |
Sun, Feb 22, 2026
|
6
participants
|
|
Mode of Travel: AT or Tele skis, split-board, snowshoes
Food for the day, consider hot drink, water, energy snacks
Sunblock, personal med kit, your normal repair kit suitable for your gear
Think 10 essentials to keep you alive in the cold Colorado winter. We'll cover it and questions in the zoom lectures.
Avalanche Gear - The Club has Transceiver/Probe/Shovel kits available to loan to those students who do not possess their own avalanche gear. If you do not presently own the gear, you may hold off on purchasing it, and consider borrowing this gear from the club. Especially if you have not made any decisions about the extent of your backcountry winter forays, whichever winter discipline you are contemplating pursuing.
Have questions? Email Uwe Sartori.
There are no materials for this course.