Hi,
I had hoped that my first post here would be more exciting, with pics and vids of skiing and hot women, but I have an important question – so the stoke will have to wait for now…
I have skied 20-30 days per year since I could walk, but have stayed inbounds in North America and have always had a guide for lift serviced off-piste in Europe. I am very keen to begin to explore the backcountry, and want to start getting into some touring. However, before my skiing goes any further, I want to take a level 1 avalanche safety course. I have two more weeks of skiing planned this season, one week in Val Thorens (last week of March) and one in Tahoe, probably Squaw or Kirkwood, in the first week of April.
My question is whether it is advisable to do an avie course in the spring, or would it be better to do one next season with a more typical winter snowpack? I want to do the course as soon as possible, but I equally want to be able to get the best education possible from it and am worried that the spring snowpack will limit the course. I would prefer to do the course in the Tahoe area for language reasons, but it seems that the scheduled courses I have seen don’t run this late, though I know Kirkwood offer a private course if you have 6 people (which I probably would).
If this is a stupid question, let me know (I’m sure you will) and I’ll delete this, but I haven’t had much luck in finding an answer…
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