Avalanche Skills Training 2 – BC’s mountains offer some of the world’s best opportunities for winter backcountry experiences and exploration. In order to explore, you have a responsibility—to yourselves, your friends, and your family—to get avalanche training.
Built around daily processes, we teach an approach used by professionals. It expands on the foundations of your AST 1. Providing a more advanced decision-making framework for traveling in avalanche terrain. 8 hours minimum of lodge-based instruction with three days in the field. Plenty of time to put your skills to practice.
The focus of this Avalanche Skills Training 2 course will be on developing and implementing a process for assessing and evaluating potential avalanche slopes in the backcountry in regard to the hazard that they present. The course will emphasize the practical collection and analysis of relevant data that an average backcountry skier would be able to use as the basis for making their decisions regarding travel in avalanche terrain.
This course requires an AST 1 as a prerequisite.
Our Booking Terms & Conditions, including the Waiver requirement, apply to all guests who with to participate in the reservation.
All guests must review and agree to our Release of Liability, Waiver of Claims, Assumption of Rusk and Indemnity Agreement (the “Waiver”) as a condition of participating in any trip booked with us. If the Waiver is not completed without alteration, change or modification, the individual will not be permitted to participate.
It is the trip leader’s responsibility to bring the Booking T&Cs, including the Waiver requirement and the terms of the Waiver, to the attention of all members of their group who want to participate in their reservation.
Please review the full Booking Terms & Conditions for full details. ICL Booking Terms & Conditions
A 4 night stay at Ice Creek Lodge and all our lodge amenities. Build by mountain people for mountain people. After a long day in the field, guests can enjoy the comforts of the cozy timber-style lodge. Enjoy our wood-heated sauna and mountain-style bucket shower before settling down to amazing backcountry cuisine, good tunes, lodge magazines, board games, or your book.
New this year are 4 private bedrooms to spend your nights resting for your next big day of unbelievable turns.
This tour includes all helicopter transportation from our staging area in Burton, BC to Ice Creek Lodge, return flights included. We have been working with our pilot Mark Homis from High Terrain Helicopters for over 25 years. He is an incredible pilot.
Please note; that any emergency evacuations will be at the cost of the client.
At Ice Creek Lodge we strive to give you the best of the best. Our community is composed of professionals who are not only hardworking and knowledgable but also simply RAD! Your instructors are all certified by the ACMG (Association of Canadian Mountain Guides), are professional members of the CAA (Canadian Avalanche Association), and have attained WSBC level III OFA certification or better. All cooks are professional with Food Safe and basic first aid.
Tell us what interests you most about this itinerary and any changes you might like to see, including change in duration, activities, etc.
Layering
Group Extras (optional)
Cabin Stuff
Our guides are all certified by the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides, are professional members of the Canadian Avalanche Association, and are WSBC level III OFA certified.
Preparing for a winter tour at Ice Creek Lodge.
Simply put, I love Ice Creek Lodge. It’s a deeply soulful place. The lodge is comfortable without being fussy and has a handmade feel to it, from the steelwork throughout to the concrete kitchen counter – a labour of love in the best sense of the word.
John Paluska | CA
