Avalanche Education Rescue and Snow Safety Training in the USA- please get your questions, comments, queries and concerns posted up in advance.

This AMA looks to affirm current understandings, dispell common myths, clarify TLAs/FLAs etc (three and four letter acronyms) offer suggestions for training and continuing ed and provide backcountry enthusisasts in the US straight answers from a nationally recognized authority.

Questions like:

Level one or avy rescue?

Take a course or hire a guide?

Pro/rec split

Maritime/Continental or online?

I'm pro curious- take Pro 1 or Level 2?

A3, SAS, AAI, AAS, SAS, CMC, NSA or AIARE- WTF is all of this alphabet soup?

Certification vs. Certificate of Completion

Can I use snowshoes when taking my Level 1?

What's next for REC ed in the USA?

THERE ARE MANY QUESTIONS, facing those new and old experienced in the backcountry....

As we barrel towards a season of high UNCERTAINTY here in the states,

join us for this BLACK FRIDAY AMA----> spend time, consume knowledge, buy nothing