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Webinar - Backcountry Series - Snow Sense & Planning - November 2025

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Day 1: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 from 7 pm - 8:15 pm ET
Day 2: Thursday, November 6, 2025 from 7 pm - 8:15 pm ET
Day 3: Tuesday, November 11, 2025 from 7 pm - 8:15 pm ET
Day 4: Thursday, November 13, 2025 from 7 pm - 8:15 pm ET
Day 5: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 from 7 pm - 8:15 pm ET
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Event Type: Webinar

Location: Online Eastern Webinar (link in confirmation) (Access links will be provided to each registrant in e-mail confirmation. Unpaid/unverified webinar reservations will be removed. - Registration)

Host Division: Eastern

Available Registration Packages (click for more info):
All 5 Webinars:
- First Chair Rate: $150.00 (available through Monday, November 3)
- Last Chair Rate: $175.00
- CEUs: 6

Prerequisites: Current PSIA-AASI Membership

Registration Deadline: Friday, October 31, 2025, 11:59 pm ET

This is a highlighted event that is anticipated to be very popular.

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Online Registration: CLOSED

Offline Registration: Contact the division office.

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Course Description:

The Snow Sense and Planning is currently offered in a five-part webinar series.

This course covers the following topics.

1. Avalanche Awareness: Weather, Snowpack, Terrain, Aspect
2. Safe Travel and Rescue: Transceiver, Probe, Shovel, Route decisions, Reading snowpack
3. Snow Analysis: Hasty, analysis along the route, Pit analysis, Pit tools and reporting, Physics and chemistry of snowpack>
4. Orienteering: Bearing/check, Pace, Reading features, maps, Triangulation, GPS and phone
5. Equipment/Clothing/Fuel-H2O/Athleticism: Discipline equipment, Skinning and equipment, Moisture management, Endurance pacing and ability

+ Participants must attend all five webinars and fulfill the assigned assessments to receive 6 CEUs.

+ Participants will need to print this map for work in Session 4: https://easternsnowpros.org/download/ed/TopoMapMWF.pdf

+ Participants will need to have use of a simple compass (such as https://a.co/d/5ZwWjQm), for the work in Session 4.

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