Certification has yet to save any lives!
The goal of avalanche students should be to obtain a baseline of knowledge and, even more, to develop a realistic perspective that enables the student to modify his or her behavior so that it becomes practice to observe time-honored planning and traveling methods; techniques that help one to avoid situations (risks) in which potentially dangerous avalanches are possible.
 
To accomplish this it is necessary to be aware of potential snowpack weak layers, utilize the afore-mentioned safe travel techniques, and route-find wisely.
 
It's important to keep the goals of certification in perspective: Certification is sometimes necessary to satisfy organizational, insurance and employment requirements; and, it is useful in assuring that students who are taking more advanced classes should be prepared for those classes.

Course Schedule 2008

Location: Marmot Mountain Works, Bellevue

Classroom Lectures: To be announced                                

Field Day Sessions:  To  be announced
         

To Register, please call the Vertical World at (206) 283-4497 (Seattle), 425-881-8826 (Redmond), or contact Marmot Mountain Works at 425-453-1515