AIARE Rescue Course with the Sawtooth Mountain Guides
2026-02-06 | ID
This course will be in Stanley.
This course is offered by Sawtooth Mountain Guides.
Visit their website for more information.
(208) 806-3063.
https://sawtoothguides.com/guided-backcountry-skiing/#avalanche-courses

AIARE Rec Level 2 with the Sawtooth Mountain Guides
2026-02-07 - 2026-02-09 | ID
This course will be in Stanley and/or Ketchum – TBD.
This course is offered by Sawtooth Mountain Guides.
Visit their website for more information.
(208) 806-3063.
https://sawtoothguides.com/guided-backcountry-skiing/#avalanche-courses

Rec Level 1 with the Sun Valley Guides
2026-02-07 - 2026-02-08 | ID
This course will be in Ketchum.
This course is offered by Sun Valley Guides.
Visit their website for more information.
(208) 721-0290.
info@svguides.com.
https://www.svguides.com/avalanche-courses

AIARE Motorized Rescue and Rec Level 2
2026-02-19 - 2026-02-22 | Brundage, 3890 Goose Lake Rd, McCall, ID, 83638, United States
AIARE Motorized Rescue and Rec Level 2 avalanche classes presented by Stable Mountain. Hosted at Brundage Mountain Resort. Sponsored by Friends of the Payette Avalanche Center. The Rescue course is a one-day stand alone course that is intended to be retaken on a regular basis in order to keep abreast of best practices in rescue techniques and gear. New participants will learn the basics of companion rescue, while returning participants will expand their skill set with advanced topics and realistic scenario practice to help improve their skills. The Level 2 course is a three-day, 24-hour course that provides backcountry travelers an opportunity to advance their decision making skills in more complicated situations such as being a leader within a small travel group, traveling in more complicated terrain, and/or developing a travel plan where resources are scarce. This course builds on the introductory avalanche hazard management model introduced in the Level 1 and adds to it the evaluation of critical hazard assessment factors. Students will describe and discuss weather, snowpack and avalanche processes, and identify how these processes relate to observations and travel within avalanche terrain.

State of the Snowpack (SoS)
2026-02-20 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Boise) | Palooza Basecamp, 112 N Main, Cascade, ID, 83611, United States
Join us for a State of the Snowpack (SoS) presentation. Palooza Basecamp and Eatery in Cascade will be hosting this event. Proceeds to benefit the FPAC.

Women's Intro to Avalanche at Tamarack
2026-02-21 09:00 - 16:00 | Tamarack Resort, 311 Village Drive, Tamarack, ID, 83615, United States
Women’s introduction to avalanche class. Registration is through Tamarack Resort. $30 per person, goes to FPAC. 9am-4pm. There will be a Ski Like a Girl Pop-Up in The Village.
The course is designed specifically for people who are starting or refreshing their avalanche education. This is a great opportunity to prepare for a more in-depth three-day Level 1 course. Students will travel on snow with touring skis, split boards, or snowshoes.
We’ll start the day by discussing some of the big-ticket concepts of avalanche safety. Learning how to identify avalanche terrain is a critical component of any ski touring trip. We’ll also discuss the 9 types of avalanche problems and learn about how these problems interact with the terrain.
We will meet at Tamarack Resort’s patrol dome and then head out to a tour location, we’ll spend a couple of hours learning to operate and search with avalanche beacons, practice probing and digging skills and then do a mock rescue putting it all together. After that, we’ll do a short tour, and practice identifying avalanche terrain, measuring slope angles. The day will finish with a short ski down back to the base area of the resort.

Digging Deeper Talk
2026-02-26 18:30 - 20:30 | Birds of Prey, 721 Hannibal St, Caldwell, Idaho, 83605, United States
Join us for a talk about Digging Deeper for avalanche awareness and safety. This will be hosted by Birds of Prey Motorsports in Caldwell. Birds Of Prey Motorsports, 721 Hannibal St, Caldwell, ID 83605. (208) 453-2222. https://www.birdsofpreymotorsports.com/about-us-atvs-utvs-motorcycles-dealership–info

Coed Introduction to Avalanche at Tamarack
2026-02-28 09:00 - 16:00 | Tamarack Resort, 311 Village Drive, Tamarack, ID, 83615, United States
Coed Introduction to Avalanche class at Tamarack. $30 registration through Tamarack Resort. All proceeds go back to FPAC.
The course is designed specifically for people who are starting or refreshing their avalanche education. This is a great opportunity to prepare for a more in-depth three-day Level 1 course. Students will travel on snow with touring skis, split boards, or snowshoes.
We’ll start the day by discussing some of the big-ticket concepts of avalanche safety. Learning how to identify avalanche terrain is a critical component of any ski touring trip. We’ll also discuss the 9 types of avalanche problems and learn about how these problems interact with the terrain.
We will meet at Tamarack Resort’s patrol dome and then head out to a tour location, we’ll spend a couple of hours learning to operate and search with avalanche beacons, practice probing and digging skills and then do a mock rescue putting it all together. After that, we’ll do a short tour, and practice identifying avalanche terrain, measuring slope angles. The day will finish with a short ski down back to the base area of the resort.

AIARE Motorized Rescue and Rec Level 1
2026-03-12 - 2026-03-15 | Brundage, 3890 Goose Lake Rd, McCall, ID, 83638, United States
AIARE Motorized Rescue and Rec Level 1 avalanche classes presented by Stable Mountain. Hosted at Brundage Mountain Resort. Sponsored by Friends of the Payette Avalanche Center. The Rescue course is a one-day stand alone course that is intended to be retaken on a regular basis in order to keep abreast of best practices in rescue techniques and gear. New participants will learn the basics of companion rescue, while returning participants will expand their skill set with advanced topics and realistic scenario practice to help improve their skills. The Level 1 course is a three-day, 24-hour introduction to avalanche hazard management. A short classroom session and two days on snow, let’s ride! Students can expect to develop a good grounding in how to prepare for and carry out a backcountry trip, to understand basic decision making while in the field, and to learn rescue techniques required to find and dig up a buried person if an avalanche was to occur and someone in the party is caught. This course provides an introduction to using these decision making tools to help a group manage risk while traveling in avalanche terrain.
