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ONLINE TRAINING
Get your avalanche training started online.
Online training starts your avalanche education process.
Backcountry Ascender
Learn! Compete! Win! Improve!
Backcountry Ascender is a free, fun and simple backcountry & avalanche educator.
LEARN with this engaging and competitive application. It’s design is an industry and peer approved curriculum of self-directed lessons and required in-person courses.
COMPETE by earning points for completing sorties (self-directed lessons) and courses. The points you earn will raise your rank, as well as that of your club, state association, dealer, and snowmobile brand. Sorties combine to make missions. Once you complete a mission level, you will be admitted to a higher badge rank. Don’t be out done.
WIN by being admitted to higher badge ranks. Coupon codes are used for discounts at top industry brands.
IMPROVE your backcountry knowledge, skills, practical experience and confidence that could save you or your riding partner’s life someday.
Snowmobiling is a team sport, so don’t get left behind.
Backcountry Access
Backcountry Access’s mission is to save lives, not just sell products. Backcountry Access has always considered education to be just as important as the gear it makes. That’s why Backcountry Access supports avalanche education programs and forecast centers. It is why the company backs up all its products with consumer education and knowledgeable customer service.
Avalanche Canada
Avalanche Canada hosts many online resources to help you start your avalanche education or refresh what you already know. They are not a substitute for taking a field-based Avalanche Canada Training course, but they offer a good introduction to backcountry safety.
