Students returned last night from 5 days of winter survival, route finding and avalanche training. They snowshoed in 11 miles to a backcountry yurt, meeting up with instructors Dudley Improta and Tim Laroche from the West Central Montana Avalanche Center. The focus of this outstanding avalanche training, like that of the Semester, is prevention of injury through assessment and recognition of hazards. They learned to locate, access and treat avalanche victims. Students also learned to make snow-caves/ quinzees, continued honing their route-finding skills, and added more winter survival techniques to their repertoire. Now they are back to their heated cabins. For the next two days, many of them will complete their emergency room observations and ambulance ride-alongs.
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