• We are teaching a number of courses this year. We partner with the University, Alaska Heliskiing, and others to ensure that there is quality avalanche education available in our region.
• Those courses open to the public are listed below. Contact the course organizers directly to sign up.
• We posted a Handouts page last spring that has links to all our course information pages, information sheets, topic handout PDFs, and avalanche map JPEGs. They are updated every fall and as new information becomes available. Be sure and check it out if you are interested in avalanche courses, it's a tremendous educational resource. So far as we know, ours is the only avalanche school that has published so much of our material online.
• If our course schedules do not work for you, we highly recommend the Alaska Avalanche School, a nonprofit based out of Anchorage. We work closely with them and regularly trade instructors and ideas. Being in Alaska's big city, they can offer more courses than we can in our thinly-populated region.
  

November 6 - December 6, UAS Level 1, Juneau

This course is taught every fall semester by SAAC staff for the University of Alaska Southeast. It is the same course as our regular Level 1, but the relaxed course schedule allows for far more practical, hands-on learning time, field trips in a greater variety of conditions, and much less information overload. Sign up through UAS.

December 1 - 9, American Avalanche Association AvPro School, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake City, Utah

This is not a course our staff will be teaching this time, but we worked as part of the Education Committee and AAA Board to create this avalanche professionals' course, and we highly recommend AvPro as the next step beyond a Level 2. We will be sending at least one of our staffers to take the course this year.

We felt that the best professionals' course would come from a collaborative effort pooling the best curriculum, materials, and instructors available nationwide. AvPro is a full eight-day course, new only a year ago but already the new standard for professional avalanche training.

The education page of the AAA website has a link to the AvPro page. Sign up there.

January 22 - February 3, UAS Community Level 1, Juneau

Note that we have changed the date, student demand for a Level 2 was so high that we added one and had to juggle these dates to accomodate it. We apologize for any inconvenience. You should register early for this, it is opening this month and the course is expected to fill rapidly.

Following the lead of towns like Silverton and Telluride where there is one big annual community avalanche school, we have set up a community Level 1 this year through the University of Alaska Southeast. This course will feature Tuesday through Thursday evening classroom sessions both weeks and all-day field trips on the weekends so it will be more accessible to working people.

We will draw on instructors from other organizations in the community to allow us to have a larger course with more field groups. We are currently working with the National Ski Patrol in hopes that patrollers will be able get their educational credit for this course, and so NSP teachers can help us teach it and get credit toward maintaining their teachers' credentials.

Sign up through UAS.

February 2, Snow Dynamics One-day Awareness, TEMSCO, Juneau

This is not one of our courses, but this is the one event these folks are doing with a Department of Public Safety grant in our region, and it is free. Register at 907-775-2600 or snow_dynamics@yahoo.com

February 5 - 17, UAS Community Level 2, Juneau

Due to strong student demand, we have added a Level 2 this year. This is a big deal, we usually offer them every other year. If you want an advanced avalanche course that exceeds the American Avalanche Association's requirements as our Alaskan ones do, this is your chance in Juneau this year.

Note - it is intended that Levels 1 and 2 be taken in separate years to allow field time to prepare for the next course. We make an exception for the full-length fall semester course, but you will not be allowed to take the January Level 1 and go on to the Level 2 in February.

We are currently working with the National Ski Patrol in hopes that patrollers will be able get their educational credit for this course, and so NSP teachers can help us teach and get credit toward maintaining their teachers' credentials.

Sign up through UAS.

Dates Not Set, National Ski Patrol Level 1, Juneau

As an affiliated organization, we will again help teach the Level 1 course for patrollers if the Patrol decides we need one. Sign up through the Juneau Ski Patrol.

February 23 - 27 and February 29 - March 4, Heliguides' & Community Level 1 Courses, Haines

We teach this heliguides' Level 1 course for Alaska Heliskiing every spring. It will again be open to community participants on a space-available basis. This course is based on our standard Level 1, but geared to heliguiding and scheduled flexibly within its time block to work with unpredictable flying weather. Two days use helicopter field access. Due to strong interest, we have adjusted the schedule to add a second session.

Sign up through Alaska Heliskiing.