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ALPINE INSTRUCTOR TRAINING COURSE PSIA-Rocky Mountain-AASI AND AIARE L1 COURSE

You need to get your avalanche training and your skiing performance either enhanced or validated in the off-season. This is a chance to get it all done before next season and hone up your skiing skills before the start of the 2012 ski season back in North America.
PSIA ALPINE INSTRUCTOR TRAINING

Check out this video from last year

El Portillo from marc beverly on Vimeo.

Dates: first week of August, 2012

This is a fully integrated hands-on workshop to obtain TWO Certifications and get you on your way to two more! Improve your skiing, your backcountry savvy, and increase your work availability for next season by getting more skiing exposure in August ! It just doesn’t get better than this and the price is right ! at El Portillo, Chile. Located near North and South America’s highest summit, Aconcagua 6,962 m (22,841 ft), and deep in the heart of the Chilean Patagonian Andes, this will be one of the best courses you’ll have ever attended.

What you get:
PSIA: This is a Level 1 certification with PSIA-RM and a level 2 prerequisite course which gets you well on the way to the level 2 exam.

AIARE Level 1 Certification. You’ll get so much hands-on experience you’ll be ready to use your skills early in the North American winter season of 2011-12 and we will prepare you well for going on to AIARE Level 2.

We can help make your travel accommodations to El Portillo. You can specify your desired accommodations from minimal to full service since not everyone has the same budget or desires.

Cost of this course is $1200 (travel and accommodations not included. Seriously, think about it. You can get TWO certifications at once and ski in the summer ! Awesome.

Dates: July | August (official dates tba)

Photos from El Portillo Ski Area

Click here for more information on AIARE Level 1 course curriculum
PSIA Level 1 course curriculum

Instructors and Guides:

Marc Beverly , UIAGM/IFMGA Certified Guide
Chris Chaput , PSIA Instructor Trainer

We will be working with National Geographic in the early part of December in Mexico to film some unique footage. A new, virgin cave that has never been explored could house some of the Earth’s largest gypsum crystals in a vertical cavern some 300 meters down. The temperatures will be excruciatingly hot.

Our crew will be gone on-location, but will hope to keep in touch with you during this project.

PRESS RELEASE Oct 10, 2010

National Geographic unveiled the expedition and followed us through a series of caves in the spectacular caves under EXTREME conditions in the mountains of north-central Mexico. You can catch the previews by clicking here ,
and you can see the entire episode in any language on the National Geographic Channel !!!