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Build your skills: Crevasse Rescue (Mt Baker) Intro to Mountaineering (Tahoe)

Avalanche Courses

Students during an AIARE 1 Avalanche course in Lake Tahoe, digging snow pits to inspect the snowpack and layering.

Touring Experience

AIARE 1 Avalanche Course in Tahoe

Our AIARE 1 Avalanche Course features two full days in the field and an online course built by Blackbird Mountain Guides.

Students practicing rescue drills during an AIARE 1 +Rescue Avalanche course. A beacon is buried to simulate a burial victim.

North Lake Tahoe

Touring Experience

AIARE 1 + Rescue Avalanche Course in Tahoe

Maximize your time and gain all of the fundamental avalanche awareness and rescue skills in our innovative three days course.

Lift Accessed Avalanche Rescue Course Participants performing a mock avalanche rescue at donner ski ranch

North Lake Tahoe, California

Touring Experience

Lift-Accessed AIARE Avalanche Rescue Course in Tahoe

Our innovative lift-accessed course gives you more practice in more realistic avalanche terrain, making you a better backcountry partner.

Skier touring toward Pyramid Peak in South Lake Tahoe

North Lake Tahoe, California

AIARE 1, Rescue, Extensive Touring

AIARE 2 Avalanche Course in Tahoe

Dive deeper into weather, snow, route planning, human dynamics, and avalanche terrain with the Blackbird AIARE 2

Skiers skinning through the backcountry in the Eastern Sierra

Touring Experience

AIARE 1 Avalanche Course in Mammoth

Our AIARE 1 Avalanche Course features two full days in the field and an online course built by Blackbird Mountain Guides.

Students from an AIARE 1 Avalanche course perform snowpack tests in the Truckee, Lake Tahoe area during their avalanche level 1 course.

Touring Experience

AIARE 1 + Rescue Avalanche Course in Mammoth

Maximize your time and gain all of the fundamental avalanche awareness and rescue skills in our innovative three days course.

Avalanche Rescue Course in Mammoth

Mammoth Lakes, California

Touring Experience

AIARE Avalanche Rescue Course in Mammoth

Our innovative course gives you more practice in more realistic avalanche terrain, making you a better backcountry partner.

Blackbird instructor demonstrating snow pit shear test during an AIARE 1 Avalanche course

Touring Experience

AIARE Avalanche Courses in California - Private

A private AIARE course just for your and your friends & backcountry partners.

A skier rips a turn on deep day in the Tahoe backcountry.

Lake Tahoe, California

Beginner - Intermediate

Avy Pass - Tahoe

A series of courses throughout the season to develop skills to understand risks and make smart decisions in the backcountry.

AIARE 1 participants above Source Lake in Snoqualmie Pass

Mt Baker & Snoqualmie Pass, Washington

Touring Experience

AIARE 1 Avalanche Course in Washington

Our AIARE 1 Avalanche Course features two full days in the field and an online course built by Blackbird Mountain Guides.

Participants in an AIARE 1 Avalanche course digging snow pits to inspect the snowpack and learn about layering processes.

Mt Baker or Snoqualmie Pass, WA

Touring Experience

AIARE 1 + Rescue Avalanche Course in Washington

Maximize your time and gain all of the fundamental avalanche awareness and rescue skills in our innovative three days course.

Avalanche Rescue Course in Washington

Mt Baker or Snoqualmie Pass, Washington

Touring Experience

AIARE Avalanche Rescue Course in Washington

Our innovative course gives you more practice in more realistic avalanche terrain, making you a better backcountry partner.

Students during an AIARE 2 Avalanche course, examining snow pits to identify snow pack layers.

AIARE 1, Rescue, Extensive Touring

AIARE 2 Avalanche Course in Washington

Dive deeper into weather, snow, route planning, human dynamics, and avalanche terrain with the Blackbird AIARE 2

Avy Pass - Washington

Mt Baker or Snoqualmie Pass, Washington

Beginner - Intermediate

Avy Pass - Washington

A series of courses throughout the season to develop skills to understand risks and make smart decisions in the backcountry.