Advanced Snow School

Advanced Snow School

This teaches advanced alpine skills such as dynamic belays, alpine knots, crevass extraction, placement of anchors etc.

There are a few requirements that you need to meet before attending Advanced Snow School.

1. All hopeful participants must have completed a Beginner's Snow School or equivalent, such as a NZAC or MSC alpine course. This is to ensure that basic knowledge has already been obtained.

2. It is neccesary that all participants have been on at least two alpine trips since their Beginner's Snow School. There are two reasons for this: To re-enforce skills learnt on Beginner's Snow School and to demonstrate a commitment and interest in the Alpine as Advanced Snow School requires a lot of valuable instructor-time.

There will be at least one trip run before Advanced Snow School for the purpose of helping those who haven't got two trips get a jump-start. It will be however necessary to organise/participate in another trip that you organise/join.

3. Preferably, all Advanced Snow School participants will have some prior knowledge of ropework, particularily relating to climbing. Some brush-up/information nights will be held before the course so that those who need some extra help will be supplied it.

All of the courses offered through AUTC are organized by volunteers who give their time freely. Course fees cover the costs incurred and do not make a profit. For this reason the courses at AUTC are some of the cheapest around. Although every effort is made to make the courses as safe as possible, participants undertake courses at their own risk and AUTC takes no responsibility for any accidents that may occur, although this is unlikely.