Our winter courses
We offer a full range of training courses to suit your needs and experience, so come and get trained! And become a responsible Rider!
Mountain training
- Duration: 4h
- No. of group participants : 4 min - 6 max
- Price : 80 per person (-50% if you are a seasonal worker in the resort, proof of employment required).
The aim of this course is to familiarise you with the basic use of your avalanche transceiver, shovel and probe.
Avalanche scenarios are then set up so that you can practise in conditions similar to the real thing.
- Duration: 4h
- No. of group participants : 4 min - 6 max
- Price : 80 (-50% if you are seasonal)
Prerequisites : be familiar with the basic use of your avalanche transceiver, shovel and probe (search for a single victim).
Perfecting your multi-victim search skills.
Scenarios put in place.
- Duration: 4h
- No. of group participants : 4 à 6
- Price : 80 (-50% if you are seasonal)
Prerequisites : Mastering a multi-victim search.
This course teaches you how to organise an avalanche search with several rescuers, so you can be quick and efficient! Most searches involving several rescuers are poorly managed and waste precious time - every minute counts!
- Duration: 4h
- No. of group participants : 4 à 6
- Price : 80€
To understand the dangers in the mountains, it's essential to have a thorough knowledge of the topography of the places we want to descend, especially if the weather is uncertain and fog is lurking! How can we know where to go if we can't find our bearings, if we don't know what the place we need to head for looks like?
This course will give you the key knowledge you need to avoid these inconveniences!
- Duration: 6-7h
- No. of group participants : 4 à 6
- Price : 100 (-50% if you are a seasonal worker)
Part of this course will be held indoors to familiarise you with the theoretical knowledge you need to understand what snow is and why avalanches occur.
Then, out in the field, we'll go and identify all the different types of snow at the moment, and understand whether the snowpack is stable or not!
Bring your own picnic!
- Duration: 6-7h
- No. of group participants : 4 à 6
- Price : 100 (-50% if you are a seasonal worker)
Prerequisites : recognise the different types of snow and their impact on the stability of the snowpack.
The aim of this training course is to familiarise you with all the information you need to make the right decision, and then to ride the routes that make sense to you.
Bring your own picnic!
- Duration: 6-7h
- No. of group participants : 4 à 6
- Price : 100 (-50% if you are a seasonal worker)
Prerequisites : Mastering cartography, Nivology and avalanche rescue
Here, you will learn to be totally autonomous, no longer dependent on professionals or friends to make the right decisions.
The aim is to organise an off-piste outing or a hike, just like a mountain professional! To understand why we choose this slope rather than another, to stop at this level rather than another, to slide quickly rather than slowly; in short, to be able to adapt the way we slide to optimise our safety, in a place that is always potentially dangerous!
Level 2 is identical, EXCEPT that this time you are the leader of the outing, with the mountain guide acting as a member of your group and correcting your initiatives if they are not appropriate for your safety and that of your group.
Bring your own picnic!
Commitment
350 for 4 hours
480 per day
Collective
80 for 4 hours
100 per day
Seasonal workers and residents
-50% for seasonal workers on proof of employment
Do you know how to ski off-piste but don't know how to manage safety?
Did you know that statistically, we have 15 minutes to have a chance of finding a person alive when they are buried by an avalanche?
Did you know that without safety equipment, if you or your friends are caught in an avalanche, you have little chance of finding them: it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
We offer a range of training courses to help you manage your own safety, that of your group and of people in the vicinity.
Because knowing how to ski is great, but knowing how to ride is even better!
Riding means being able to manage your descent safely for yourself, but also taking into account those of others, even strangers!
Riding means knowing how to glide while avoiding danger. It means being responsible for your own safety. It means having friends who are also capable of helping you in the event of a problem. It means knowing how safety equipment works. It means understanding the snow, knowing where to make your tracks and how to manage the risks during the descent!
We offer a full range of training courses to suit your needs and experience, so come and get trained! And become a responsible Rider
Nb: group and commitment training courses
These courses are mainly offered outside the school holidays (December, January and March) so that seasonal workers can learn and improve collective safety on the resort. The more people we know about mountain safety, the more likely we are to be effectively rescued by those nearby!
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Do you have any questions?
Contact us and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
- 06 95 86 85 75
- bureaudesguidesdetignes@gmail.com