Description

This is a course aiming to develop skills needed in order to enjoy off-piste skiing and ski touring. Main themes throughout the course is:

• Off-piste ski technique (and in-piste technique, trying to break down the barrier between so called "on and off piste" technique)

• Recognition/understanding of "Avalanche terrain"

• Planning/doing alpine ski tours

• Group management during offpiste skiing and ski tours

• Avalanche rescue

• Introduction to decision making in Avalanche terrain

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Day 1 is a touring based day, spent outside the resort, working hard on avalanche rescue and recognizing avalanche terrain.

Day 2-3 are a resort skiing days with focus on skiing all the good off-piste runs in connection to the resort. We will here work on developing ski technique, recognizing avalanche terrain, implementing good group management routines and discuss how to make decisions in avalanche terrain.  In reality these resort days will be a mix of using the lifts in the resort, and skinning in order to reach various runs that we would like to do!

Day 4-6 are ski touring days being spent outside the resort. Here the goal is to make all of the themes we have worked on so far, come together in the end. Participants has plan and carry out some of the classic ski touring trips in the valley.

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The days can be switched around, all according to weather and conditions.

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Arriving back during the afternoon on day 6, participants are either leaving with the train/buss in the afternoon and evening on the last day of the course, or in the morning the following day.

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