Off Piste at Plymouth Snowsports Centre!
Henry is hosting training sessions and talks at Plymouth Snowsports Centre on how to stay safe while skiing off-piste. The "Essentials Talk" covers key decisions to avoid avalanches, while rescue training focuses on using transceivers to locate buried victims within 15 minutes. Events include talks, practical rescue sessions, and a dinner with Henry. The sessions emphasize the importance of safety in off-piste skiing and mountain rescue.
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Safety is Freedom!
Learn how to make off-piste and ski touring acceptably safe. Henry is coming to Plymouth Snowsports Centre to give a series of Training sessions and Talks. Learn how to stay safe off-piste at his Essentials Talk, and practise your transceiver training skills with him around the slopes of Plymouth SnowSports Centre. These are vital skills for anyone heading off-piste this winter, plus they help you to have more fun!
Rescue Training
Training Session learning & improving your Rescue Skills
‘Companion rescue’ training shows you how to get your fellow skiers out from under the snow in 15 minutes or less, if any of you get caught and buried by an avalanche.
15 minutes is the target amount of time because according to the international avalanche safety community, that is the window of time in which a victim has the most chances of survival. According to the Utah Avalanche Center “Statistics show that 93 percent of avalanche victims can be recovered alive if they are dug out within the first 15 minutes, but then the numbers drop catastrophically. After 45 minutes, only 20-30 percent are still alive and after two hours almost no one is alive.”
Essentials Talk
Provisional Events as follows:
Friday Oct 4th: Essentials Talk 6 – 7:45pm Plymouth Snowsports Centre
Saturday Oct 5th (2 x sessions) Transceiver/ Rescue training 10:30am-12:30 & 1:30-4:30pm (10-12 max per session) ..
Followed by an informal discussion time, ‘dinner with Henry’ 6.30-9pm.
Sunday Oct 6th Transceiver/ Rescue training 10:30am-12:30pm
Sunday Oct 6th Essentials Talk ‘open to all’ 4pm-5:45
Monday Oct 7th 6-7:45pm: Accident Prevention : Avalanche Accidents & Surgical – Never Events “(Patient)Safety is Freedom” presented by Henry with Surgeons and and healthcare professionals as guest speakers.
*For an idea of prices and further descriptions on the sessions see this link
Can I please recommend Henry’s excellent avalanche transceiver training sessions. Henry gives very clear advice about the steps to take. His course includes really helpful practical exercises covering all stages of search, location and retrieval, with very useful tips and feedback throughout. This training is absolutely indispensable for all off piste skiers. Thank you Henry!
Each session includes a memory aid pack
In our transceiver training sessions, you will learn how to be well prepared and use your avalanche safety equipment. This concentrates on the role of the avalanche transceiver plus the shovel and probe.
By the end of the training you will feel able to find a victim in around 5 minutes and recover (dig them out) in 15 minutes. You will also understand about the best way to use a probe and to dig the victim out.
Safety is Freedom!
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