Freeride Workshops
We offer you the unique opportunity to test your personal freeride rescue equipment and learn how to use it. To complete the individual preparation our workshop includes a guided freeride downhill run.
Facts and Figures
Target
Participants learn the basics of avalanche awareness. This enables them to make simpler decisions independently and help to understand interrelationships that are more complex.
Course
- Theory of Freeriding (approx. 1.5 hour)
- Cartography
- Meteorology
- Snow build-up
- Tour preparation based on the avalanche bulletin
- Implementation of theory in open terrain (variant descent)
- Line selection
- Behaviour in mountainous terrain
- Group organisation
- Recognize danger signs and terrain forms
- Lunch break outdoors (in case of bad weather in the restaurant)
- Rescue procedure in case of emergency, handling avalanche beacons, shovels and probes in mountainous terrain
| Dates | 19 January 2020 2 February 2020 23 February 2020 |
| Price | CHF 100.00 per person |
| Meetingpoint | Rothorn valley station |
| Duration | 09:00 – 15:00 |
| Equipment | Ski/Snowboard |
| Lift Pass | Day Ticket Arosa / Lenzerheide + Additionally Tschiertschen |
