{"id":5236,"date":"2025-09-08T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=5236"},"modified":"2025-09-08T16:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T23:19:13","slug":"aiare-level-1-avalanche-course-jan-2-4-2026-hut-based-la-grande-2","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/classes-events\/aiare-level-1-avalanche-course-jan-2-4-2026-hut-based-la-grande-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AIARE Level 1 Avalanche Course Jan 2-4, 2026 Hut Based La Grande"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What:<\/strong> The WAC is teaming up with local outfitter <a href=\"https:\/\/eaglecapmountainguides.com\/\"><strong>Eagle Cap Mountain Guides<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to offer a hut-based AIARE Level 1 Course.\u00a0 Participants will meet Friday at 8 am, and head into the Buck Creek Yurt after a quick breakfast and intro in town.\u00a0 This course is a hybrid design with pre-course online learning that should take on average 8 hours to complete.\u00a0 Students will also be required to participate in a 2-hour Zoom session approximately 1 week before the start of the two field sessions.\u00a0 Pre-course online learning materials will be sent out a month before the course starts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> The Wallowa Avalanche Center is offering the AIARE 1, on January 2-4, and will take place at the <a href=\"https:\/\/eaglecapmountainguides.com\/product\/overnight-trips\/\"><strong>Buck Creek Yurt<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0operated by Eagle Cap Mountain Guides.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price Includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All Meals, Including Breakfast, Lunch, Hot Appetizers, Dinner<br \/>\nAIARE Certified Course Leader and Instructors<br \/>\n24-hour course with a 5:1 maximum ratio<br \/>\nAIARE field book<br \/>\nAIARE certificate of completion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Participants Must Have:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Digital avalanche transceiver, avalanche shovel, avalanche probe (Transceiver should be less than 7 years old)<br \/>\nBackpack (airbag pack optional)<br \/>\nBackcountry skis or splitboard, boots, poles, skins.<\/p>\n<p>If you would refer to pay with a check, please email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:victor@wallowaavalanchecenter.org\">rex@wallowaavalanchecenter.org<\/a>\u00a0to be added to the course roster and mail a check to: WAC PO Box 324 Joseph, OR 97846.<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:victor@wallowaavalanchecenter.org\">rex@wallowaavalanchecenter.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cancellation: We recommend you purchase trip insurance in the event you have to cancel your course.\u00a0 If you need to cancel within 30 days of the start of the course you will not receive a refund.\u00a0 Cancellations more than 30 days of the start of the course will receive a refund minus $50.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What: The WAC is teaming up with local outfitter Eagle Cap Mountain Guides\u00a0to offer a hut-based AIARE Level 1 Course.\u00a0 Participants will meet Friday at 8 am, and head into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-5236","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/5236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/5236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}