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If you're a backcountry traveler looking for an avalanche training course, you've come to the right place!
AIARE course providers are located throughout the United States and can provide you with the knowledge and tools you'll need to manage your risk in avalanche terrain. Whether you're a newcomer to the backcountry, an advanced recreationist or a seasoned professional, AIARE has a course that can improve your decision making skills. Our courses are designed as a unified progression from Level 1 through Level 3 with each course building on existing skills. |
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Crested Butte Outdoors offers the highly successful and well respected Wilderness Medicine programs developed by Wilderness Medical Associates. Courses include Wilderness First Responder, Wilderness Rescue Medicine (Wilderness EMT), Open Recertification, and private courses. Course locations include Glacier National Park, Montana |
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Pikes Peak Alpine School supports the high standards of the American Mountain Guides Association in its continuing efforts to train and certify guides in the United States. The process required for mountain guides to gain this certification clearly demonstrates their committment to the highest standards and the excellence of this profession. In my opinion, it’s not enough to simply have a certification. Guides must also be of sound mind, have physicial agility and fitness, and possess knowledge that can only come through the combination of experience and formal education. |
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Located in the old railroad town of Whitefish, 60 miles (90 km) south of the Canadian border, Whitefish Mountain Resort caters to skiers and snowboarders of all ability levels. Famous for its uncrowded slopes, snow ghosts, abundant snowfall and unsurpassed views, Whitefish Mountain Resort is among the 10 largest ski resorts in the U.S. offering 3,000 skiable acres, 93 marked runs and thirteen lifts including two high-speed quad chairlifts. The resort is consistently ranked in the Top 30 North American Ski Resorts by SKI Magazine. |
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Valhalla Adventures, LLC, is based in Whitefish, Montana. We specialize in cat accessed powder skiing and riding here in Northwest Montana. Our license with the Stillwater State Forest includes 35 square miles of terrain accessing Striker Ridge.
As Northwest Montana's only cat accessed backcountry service, we offer guided tours by committed and knowledgeable individuals who enjoy skiing and snowboarding as much as you do. Our goal is to provide a unique backcountry experience which is hassle free and suited to your desires. From steeps for advanced riders to rolling glades for intermediates, we can provide the terrain to suit your abilities.
Skiers and snowboarders from all over the world come to revel in the abundance of quality powder in Northwest Montana. Our comfortable atmosphere lends a hand in making this an adventure you won't soon forget. |
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The White Room Mountain Shop in the historic Railway district of Whitefish, Montana. Thanks for visiting our site. With three winters under our belt, we are very thankful to our customers, community and friends for making this journey a complete success. And what an amazing winter it was. Huge powder day after powder day...Whitefish was in the path of many storms that provided nothing but over-the-head faceshots in both the front and backcountry. |
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Founded in 1993 by a small group of outdoor industry veterans, Mountain Hardwear is dedicated to producing high-end outdoor equipment, apparel and accessories for mountaineering, climbing, backpacking and snowsports. Our products are innovative and technologically advanced, designed and crafted by people who are passionate about the outdoors. Mountain Hardwear has won numerous awards since its inception for its unique product designs and exceptional customer service. |
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Welcome to Montana and Glacier National Park! Wild River Adventures has been offering outfitted trips for the entire family in this majestic part of the world since 1985. Glacier and neighboring Waterton National Park have been designated as an International Peace Park, a World Heritage Site, and a World Biosphere Reserve. Directly adjoining this incredible ecosystem are the Great Bear and Bob Marshall Wilderness, one of the largest wilderness areas in the continental U.S. These lands encompass the headwater of the Middle and North Forks of the Flathead River - known as Montana's wildest rivers. |
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RECCO® is an avalanche rescue system utilized by more than 600 rescue organizations worldwide to assist in the efficient location of burials. RECCO technology enables rapid directional pinpointing of a victim’s precise location using harmonic radar. The two-part system consists of a RECCO® detector used by organized rescue groups, and RECCO® reflectors that are integrated into apparel, helmets, protection gear or boots. The reflector is permanently affixed, requires no training for use and needs no batteries to function. |
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Saving lives through rescue and education
Susan Purvis has worked on all seven continents as an adventurer, explorer, and wilderness medicine educator.
Wilderness Medicine as a Second Language (WMSL) is a not for profit school specializing in wilderness and high altitude medicine courses to the people that really need it: the Sherpa and African guides of Mt. Everest and Mt. Kilimanjaro, who risk their lives working at extreme altitudes for their clients.
High Altitude Rescue Dogs (HARD) is a select group of volunteer K-9 search and rescue handlers and their support personnel. HARD members respond to avalanche searches, drowning accidents, and wilderness search and rescue missions. These highly trained dog teams deploy in difficult and sometimes dangerous mountain conditions. |
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The Sportsman & Ski Haus reflects the area more so than any other single store. From backpacking, camping, fishing, hiking, running, skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, tennis, to water sports, our staff does it all!
With locations in Kalispell and Whitefish, the Sportsman & Ski Haus is truly the number one destination retail store in Northwestern Montana. |
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Bluebird Guides offers back country ski trips and private guiding for groups and individuals.
Bluebird Guides is made up of a small collection of mountain folk whose main winter passion is skiing. There are three guides (including myself), my wife Shell who helps out with logistics and Billie our hard charging cook.
Our approach to ski touring trips is fully determined by the group we’re with. It’s your holiday, so you set the pace and the level of terrain you want to ski. So with this in mind, we always try to match group our trips so that everyone has a good time with zero pressure. With hut trips, we often ski as two smaller groups to accommodate the ambitious pace as well as the more relaxed pace. |
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We founded Glacier Guides in 1983 because no one else was providing the kind of ecologically sensitive backcountry guiding and interpretation that Glacier National Park deserved. In those days there were just three of us, but our hunch that an outfit like ours was needed turned out to be correct. Four years later we expanded to include rafting on the area's two Wild and Scenic rivers. Today, with more than seventy guides and support people on our staff, we provide the area's most comprehensive and professional hiking, backpacking, fishing and rafting services.
At Glacier Guides, Inc. and Montana Raft Co., we owe our success to our staff. We're not just a company, we're friends. Many of our guides are students or teachers in the offseason, dovetailing their schedules with the summer season here in West Glacier. Others ski, hike, fish or raft professionally in other parts of the country the rest of the year. All are dedicated outdoors people who hone their skills constantly, sharing hard won insights with you, our guests. |
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Glacier Country Avalanche Center (GCAC) is a partnership between the US Forest Service, National Park Service, National Weather Service, Glacier Country Avalanche Center Incorporated (GCAC Inc), and the people and businesses of Northwest Montana with the goal of educating the public about avalanche danger in Northwest Montana.
The GCAC region is approximately 10,000 square miles and encompasses seven mountain ranges. Within this vast area, the goal of GCAC is to help winter recreational enthusists and professional workers avoid avalanche accidents. To achieve this, GCAC provides avalanche safety education programs and backcountry avalanche advisories.
Specific responsibilities for the operation of GCAC are shared between GCAC Inc., Flathead National Forest, Kootenai National Forest, and Glacier National Park. |
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Backcountry Access started in 1994 in a garage in Boulder, Colorado. At the time, backcountry skiing was influenced as much by tradition as by innovation. We took it as a challenge to question conventional wisdom and to test every assumption. The result has been a series of innovative products, some bordering on revolutionary. 2007-08 marks our 13th year we've been selling our products in North America. It marks our 11th year in Europe. Thanks to a core group of dedicated distributors, avalanche professionals, and backcountry riders, the BCA brand is now an integral part of European mountain culture. While our roots are in the young, irreverent North American freeskiing scene, we deeply respect the wisdom and traditions of European alpinism. |
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At Cloudveil we encourage others to find inspiration in the outdoors. Derived from our collective mountain experience, we are committed to creating inspired outdoor apparel that offers innovation without excess and quality without compromise. |
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Glacier Adventure Guides offers the adventure of a lifetime. Our team of highly trained and certified back country guides are able to offer a truly memorable experience. We specialize in creating an adventure that matches both your skill level and interests – limited only to your imagination!
Although Glacier National Park’s winter trails and unplowed roads are accessible to all, your trip can be greatly enhanced by having a guide. All of our guides are knowledgeable about the Park’s geology, natural history, and winter ecology. All have training in first aid, avalanche safety, equipment repair, and how to stay comfortable in winter weather. These skills ensure your winter outing will be safe and enjoyable. Our guides can lead you off the beaten path on a route your group can comfortably travel or simply guide you to the best scenic spots right on the trail. |
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