Certificate in Avalanche Safety and Snowsport Instructing (Ski) or (Snowboard) - Courses
Year 1
- Exam Fee - Alpine Level One Certification
- Exam Fee - Snowboard Level Two Certification
- Exam Fee - Alpine Level Two Certification
- Exam - MSC Avalanche Safety Stage 1
- Exam Fee - Snowboard Level One Certification
- Respond to an emergency care situation for an outdoor activity
- Navigate in good visibility on land
- Navigate in poor visibility on land
- Manage risk for an outdoor activity
- Demonstrate knowledge of safety and accident procedures relevant for teaching in a snowsport school
- Demonstrate understanding of communication and customer service skills for snowsport instruction
- Reflecting on managing risk
- Decision making for back-country travel
- Communicate in the outdoors using two-way radio
- Instruct beginner snowsport
- Alpine ski downhill on intermediate terrain
- Alpine ski downhill on advanced terrain
- Alpine ski downhill off-piste
- Snowboard on intermediate terrain
- Snowboard off-piste at a snowsport area
- Manage first aid in emergency situations
- Provide first aid
- Provide resuscitation level 2
- Snowboard on advanced terrain at a snowsport area
- Record and communicate avalanche and weather observations
- Contribute to the avalanche stability assessment for a snow safety programme
- Demonstrate knowledge of snow formation, snowpack structure and snow metamorphism
- Demonstrate basic maintenance of snowsport equipment
- Demonstrate basic movement skills and use of ice axe and crampons
- Demonstrate knowledge of avalanche phemomena
- Assist on an avalanche response
- Demonstrate own party avalanche rescue
- Analyse weather information and predict weather conditions for the outdoors
- Demonstrate use of avalanche transceivers, shovels and probes
- Identify strategies to minimise risk to self and others when planning a back country mountain trip