Youth Avalanche Safety and Companion Rescue Beacon Clinic Day

Name: Youth Avalanche Safety and Companion Rescue Beacon Clinic Day
Start: 2025-02-16T10:00:00-08:00
Location: Mountain Medics Inc.

Schedule

Sun, 16 Feb, 2025 at 10:00 am

UTC-08:00

Location

Mountain Medics Inc. | Mount Shasta, CA

If you've got a grom at home who wants to play in the snow more than anything else, (and who doesn't?) then have we got the day for you!
For skiers, snowboarders, snowmobilers, and any youngsters who just want to spend time in the snow. The Mount Shasta Avalanche Center is proud to partner with the Nickolay Dodov Foundation and Mountain Medics to bring you a fun-filled day of Avalanche Safety and hands-on Companion Rescue Beacon Skills practice.
We will start out in a classroom setting with the award-winning Know Before You Go avalanche safety presentation. Not a ton of science, nobody telling you that you can't play in the mountains. Just lots of tips and tricks for how to recognize danger, how to avoid the danger, and how to get home safely each day.
We will then be eating lunch, courtesy of the awesome folks at Mountain Medics, before we caravan up to Bunny Flat.
After we get up to Bunny, some of our awesome avalanche forecasters will go over the proper steps to take in the event of a burial and search. We'll run through some different scenarios, techniques, and ways to make sure that things are as smooth as possible.
Then we'll set the kids loose on some practice courses and run through some hands-on drills. Nothing beats practice!
When: Sunday, February 16th, 10 am
Where: Mountain Medics Headquarters - 2600 Spring Hill Rd, Mount Shasta
Cost: Free!
Please let us know ahead of time if you can make it, so that we can have an idea of numbers for lunch. You can either reply in the comments or email [email protected] to let us know you'll be coming. And let us know how many!