During every ski touring or freeride adventure, you move across slopes and routes outside secured areas.
You must evaluate the terrain carefully and identify avalanche risks before each descent.
Through our avalanche safety course, you’ll learn how to prevent accidents and react effectively in an emergency.
Planning your route, reading snow conditions, and managing group safety are essential for every mountain outing.
Moreover, risk awareness and good decision-making build the foundation of your personal safety.
The Ortovox Tour and Training Basic teaches both theory and real practice in authentic winter environments.
You will improve your confidence and sharpen your observation skills through hands-on field exercises.
Above all, true safety comes from practice—train your knowledge and apply it every time you step on snow.
Ortovox Tour and Training Basics is for all freeride and ski mountaineering enthusiasts!
Careful planning, appropriate behavior on the mountain and the experience required to recognize potential hazard areas are the basics needed to ensure your safety on a tour.
2 days avalanche course is perfect for beginners, but also for advanced freeriders/ski mountaineers!
The training fields will help you to practice the emergency procedures to follow after an avalanche.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
During the course, you will test yourself on the correct use of safety equipment, as well as the best strategy for successful companion rescue. The aim is to show how to best use the emergency avalanche equipment in emergency situations.
By an intensive training and practices on field, Safety Experts will help you to learn:
- techniques to be used for the correct use of safety equipment
- strategies and behaviours in different circumstances
- tools available in the planning stages of the trip
- methodological criteria for making decisions to protect the safety of the group
- methods and criteria for assessing risk when choosing routes
- intervention procedures in the event of an emergency
The participants will also learn the following EVALUATION SKILLS:
- how to find a safe itinerary and set a track
- how to recognize and evaluate dangerous areas based on the prevailing conditions
- how to apply decision-making strategies
TEACHING STAFF
All the course are led in small groups (6-8 participants), each of one under the supervision of a dedicated professional Safety Expert.
- IFMGA certified Mountain Guides will introduce you on Safety and risk management for ski touring and freeriding on unsecured terrain in winter.
- IFMGA certified Mountain Guides will teach you the correct way to act after an avalanche.
During the practical field trials, the Safety Experts will explain you:
– what protocol to adopt in the event of an avalanche
– how to search for the avalanche victims using the transceiver
– how to use a probe and shovel correctly when excavating
- IFMGA certified Mountain Guides will explain the correct STRATEGIES and PROCEDURES to act promptly and effectively in case of need. The participants will learn how to rescue, in the time and manner required to ensure survival after an avalanche. These courses offer the opportunity to improve your KNOW-HOW, your SKILLS in the backcountry while not neglecting your SAFETY.
INCLUDED IN THIS COURSE
During the Ortovox Tour and Training Basic, each participant receives a complete avalanche safety kit provided by Ortovox. The avalanche safety course includes practical sessions using the latest Ortovox avalanche equipment, such as beacon, shovel, and probe.
You will test new-generation devices and understand how technology improves speed and precision during rescue operations. Moreover, participants can directly compare high-performance Ortovox gear with older or less advanced equipment.
Throughout the Ortovox Tour and Training Basic, our certified Safety Experts explain key differences between the models available on the market.
As a result, you’ll learn to choose the right avalanche beacon, shovel, and probe for your ski-touring and freeride adventures.
This hands-on experience ensures confidence, efficiency, and deeper awareness in every mountain environment.
Once you successfully complete this course, you can join the Ortovox Tour and Training Advanced and gain full independence in ski mountaineering practice.
Didactic modules, as well as practices on the field, are ALL led by IFMGA certified Mountain Guides!
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