EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
“There’s these
avalanche courses
– that’s what they
call them – offered
at dealers or clubs
or even friends
getting together.
People oftentimes
think that taking a
course like that is
good enough to go
to the mountains.
And it’s not.”
– Chris Brewer, Saskatchewan
Snowmobile Association
ty first, especially when it comes to “flat-landers”
riding in the mountains.
“People have to understand that the
AST 1 (Avalanche Skills Training 1, of-fered
through Avalanche Canada) is the
course they have to take,” said Brewer.
“It gets into the science of it and gets
you understanding the conditions. It
teaches you how to stop and check the
snow properly. People need to take their
AST 1, minimum.”
No “I” in safety
Staying safe on a mountain is a team ef-fort.
But there is also a heavy responsi-bility
on resort management to provide
whatever training is necessary for their
staff to keep them safe. For operators, a
certain level of danger is always going to
be part of the job. Mitigating those dan-gers
can sometimes be stressful but it’s
always necessary, and is better achieved
when you have the right tools, both
physical and learned, at hand.
Safely operating a snowmobile on the
mountain – whether for work or rec-reation
– is about being keenly aware
of the conditions of the mountain,
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