4 day introductory ski touring course in Kleinwalsertal, Austria

We will meet at 9 AM in Mittelberg. After the welcome meeting and an introduction of the program, we will check our equipment and take the cable car to Walmedningerhorn. Then I will teach you some basic techniques on rescue and avalanche management using an avalanche transceiver. Dinner and lodging in the valley.

We will start with a trek of 3-4 hours in the Kleinwalsertal mountains. There we will learn the basic techniques of ascent and descent with skis. In the afternoon, we will review some aspects of avalanche rescue in the event that a colleague has an accident. I will also teach you how to plan ski tours. In fact, we will plan our itinerary for the next day together. Dinner and lodging in the valley.

Today we will go to another summit located in Germany very close to the Austrian border, in Allgäu. For that, we must ascend for about 4-5 hours. Both in the ascent and in the descent, we will put into practice our recently learned theoretical knowledge. We will evaluate the slopes around, make decisions about the tactics and carry out a new rescue simulation. At the end of the day we will plan our last ski tour. Dinner and lodging in the valley.

Our final training will take us 5 hours. We will review all the information learned in these 4 days. If necessary, we will go over those topics that have not been clear and we will practice them again. Finally, at 3 PM we will go back to the starting point to return the gear and say goodbye.