White Risk

Backcountry sessions, are the most impressive snowboard sessions. There are only you, maybe a view friends and the nature. But as impressive these sessions are, they are also dangerous, caused by avalances.

Don't become desperate. Thanks to SAAC (snow & avalance awareness camps) there's the possibility to be prepeared. At freek, 2 days, basic camps, you can learn how to minimize the risk. At the first day you will learn the theoretic part and at the second day you will go into the backcountry for the practical part.

Unfortunately, there are almost all camps full, only for the camp in St. Jackob (10. & 11. Feburary 2007) and Wildschönau (10. & 11. March 2007) are places at the waiting list. But thanks to their sponsors, they will add some extra places for the camps. Watch out the sponsor sites for the giving away of extra places: Soulcountry Tirol & MegaCard.

If you don't have luck with the waiting list or the extra places, check the interactive DVD White Risk form the Eidgenössisches Institut für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung (SLF). While playing the DVD, you can choose between the languages German, French and English. It costs only 19 SFr. plus postage.

Hopefully I'll get my place at Wildschönau, so I can blog someting about the learned experience.