TGR Announces New Avalanche Rescue Training Series
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By tgrweb | November 19th, 2009
Nov. 19th 2009
Teton Village, Wyoming
Teton Gravity Research announces the release of BCA Avalanche Rescue Series.
TGR is proud to release the BCA Avalanche Rescue Series for the new TGR Snow Lab. The level 1 series will release weekly in the TGR Snow Lab. The seven lesson seres will take you through the basics of avalanche awareness and rescue practices. the series consists of the following lessons:
Lesson 1- The importance of training
Lesson 2 - The Five Red Flags
Lesson 3 - Organizing the rescue
Lesson 4- The signal search
Lesson 5-: The coarse search
Lesson 6- Fine search and pinpointing
Lesson 7- Shoveling and first aid
A level 2 series will follow with the following lessons:
Level 2 BCA Beacon Rescue Series -Lesson 1-Advanced Beacon searching
Level 2 BCA Beacon Rescue Series –Lesson 2- Probing
Level 2 BCA Beacon Rescue Series – Lesson 3 -Strategic shoveling
There is a ten part Avalanche Awareness series currently in the TGR Snow Lab. View the series here.
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