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AST – Avalanche Skills Training, BC Intro & Companion Rescue
Get snow and avalanche survival skills for safer backcountry travel with a specific focus in Japan terrain and conditions.
From learning to use your avalanche gear and perform rescues to planning your trips and understanding conditions.
All courses are certified by Avalanche Canada.
AST1+ Avalanche Skills Training
Beginner's side-backcountry safety course
Avalanche Skills Training 1 'AST1', is the first step for anyone interested to or already stepping into potential avalanche terrain – back or side country, out of bounds, off resort and touring. If you don't have avalanche skills training – it is a MUST!
Learn online theory of avalanche terrain, trip planning, reading avalanche reports and risk mitigation, in-person field training using your avalanche transceiver, probe and shovel and finally AST1+ component offers planning and participating in a full day guided tour with our avalanche expert.
Course Duration: 2 Days
Course Fee: ¥45,000
Course Equipment: Touring Skis / Splitboard / Snowshoes & avalanche kit *Rental package available
Pre-Requisites: Competent skiing off-piste and progressing into BC touring
Progression: Level up to AST2 - Advanced Avalanche Skills Training / 4 days
Practice Real Life Scenarios
Use your gear and work as a team in pressing situations to perform a successful avalanche rescue
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BCI1 + BCI2 – Backcountry Intro
Beginner's side-backcountry safety course
A soft introduction and learning day tour to experience backcountry touring, learn the basics, safety and help progress your off-piste skills.
Specially developed to be accessible for anyone interested in giving ski/snowboard touring a go – learn on the snow with us and take the pressure off joining to keep up with more advanced crew.
Consider it a Q+A training and tour divided in to 2 progressive levels:
BCI1 – first timers introduction to off-piste BC touring, getting used to skiing/riding off-piste in deep powder & learn to use avi safety gear
BCI2 – for those that have toured, can ski off-piste confidently, however still feel out of their depth with whats going on & want more 1-on-1 time
Course Duration: 1 Day
Course Fee: ¥25,000
Course Equipment: Touring Skis / Splitboard / Snowshoes & Avalanche Kit *Rental package available
Pre-Requisites: Competent skiing/riding on-piste (not for beginners)
Progression: Next level up to AST1+ Avalanche Skills Training / 2 days
Fun - Small Groups!
Ease the pressure of touring by joining our passive group to learn all the basics - one step at a time
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AST2 - Avalanche Skills Training
Advanced backcountry skills focus course
Our AST2 is carefully designed as a comprehensive knowledge, skills & experiential course that engages our students to learn in detail all factors of daily BC touring in avalanche terrain. From trip planning, observational information, in-field testing, terrain navigation, decision making, advanced search+rescue skills and ever important – the human factor.
If you are frequently backcountry touring, want to be confident in planning trips and making decisions as a group leader – then AST2 is for you. Where AST1 is compared to learning with training wheels, after completing your AST2 training you truly have the book to the backcountry.
Course Duration: 4 Days
Course Fee: ¥80,000
Course Equipment: Touring Skis / Splitboard / Snowshoes & avalanche kit *Rental package available
Pre-Requisites: Competent skiing off-piste and reasonable level of fitness
Advanced Classes
Delver deeper into the AST process and learn all you need to know to be a safe group leader
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CRS - Companion Rescue Skills
Special training for advanced rescue scenarios
Avalanche Skills Training 1 'AST1', is the first step for anyone interested to or already stepping into potential avalanche terrain – back or side country, out of bounds, off resort and touring. If you don't have avalanche skills training – it is a MUST!
Learn online theory of avalanche terrain, trip planning, reading avalanche reports and risk mitigation, in-person field training using your avalanche transceiver, probe and shovel and finally AST1+ component offers planning and participating in a full day guided tour with our avalanche expert.
Course Duration: 1 Days
Course Fee: ¥28,000
Course Equipment: Touring Skis / Splitboard / Snowshoes & avalanche kit *Rental package available
Pre-Requisites: Competent skiing off-piste and reasonable level of fitness
Advanced Rescue Techniques
Go beyond the basic knowledge and learn advanced search functions, multi-burial and more!
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AST1/AST2 Refresher Day
Single Day – On-Demand based skills refresher
We only schedule this training based on the demand and group requests – so please make an enquiry directly in regards and we will field the numbers, location and skill levels to put a training together.
It will cover a half or full day group tour with trailhead drills, scenario, online knowledge assessment and bascially a fun warmup to the season ahead!
Course Duration: 1/2 day (AST1) or Full Day (AST2)
Participants: Minimum 4 – 8 total
Course Fee: ¥12,000 (AST1) / ¥20,000 (AST2)
Course Equipment: Touring Skis / Splitboard / Snowshoes & avalanche kit *Rental package available
Pre-Requisites: Completion of AST1 and/or AST2
Refresh your memory
Cover all the general info you already know AND find out new things along the way with our half and 1 day course
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