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Avalanche Level I CLICK AMS’ mission is to seek excellence in responsible mountaineering and wilderness travel, while teaching and guiding others. Our core curriculum focuses on safety and judgment and hard skills. The Level I Avalanche Course is an excellent opportunity to build a solid foundation of essential skills, while pursuing backcountry snow travel safely and responsibly within challenging and remote environments. The class list for this course includes avalanche curriculum that meets industry standards. Three days provides enough time to apply these skills in a real environment. Throughout the course participants learn by doing. The experience provides students the basic foundation for backcountry travel in avalanche terrain. The Level I Avalanche Course is an introductory course with the only prerequisite that participants arrive with a desire to learn and work hard. Tuition Includes: Instruction, classrooom, bunkhouse lodging, kitchen use Does not include: Transportation, food, personal gear Prerequisites: The only prerequisite for this course is a desire to learn. Be prepared to exert yourself traveling in the snow up and down hill. Features of This Course 1:4 instructor/student ratio up to 12 participants 30 hours of instruction including 2 terrain tours Avalanche curriculum: Terrain, weather, snow pack, human factors, avalanche mechanics, hazard evaluation, transceiver rescue practice, stability analysis and testing, decision-making. Hands-on practice Location We will meet at the APU Kellogg Farm Campus in Palmer at 8 am. The Main House at the farm has a classroom, a kitchen and bunk rooms. Tuition cover the use of the main House for the durration of the course.   Equipment Please consider the Alaskan winter and bring appropriately warm gear. Be prepared to be outdoors all day in the extreme cold. Review the euipment list in the Course Description. Contact the office if you have questions. [Click For Application] [Click For Graduates' Comments]

Top of Page Travel & Lodging General Info Email Us Alaska Mountaineering School Colby Coombs & Caitlin Palmer, Directors PO BOX 566, 3rd Street, Talkeetna, AK 99676 USA phone: (907)733-1016 fax: (907)733-1362 email: info@climbalaska.org AMS top image: Alaska Range viewed from Talkeetna Mount Foraker (17,400'), Mount Hunter (14,570'), Denali (20,320')