TRAINING TOOL FOR THEORY AND PRACTICE
A comprehensive mountain model for teaching how to assess avalanche danger and plan tours.
Highlights
Training model for:
- Assessing avalanche danger
- Tour planning
- Risk management
Whether you’re on a beginner’s ski tour course or you’re preparing for a vigorous west alpine traverse: The SAFETY ACADEMY MOUNTAIN 3D (SAM) will help you clearly illustrate and better explain the avalanche risk factors and their complex causality to beginners and advanced ski tourers on a safety course.
This clever mountain model fills the gap between theory and the reality in the mountains and provides a fundamentally better understanding of the complexity of avalanche formation. The SAM educational tool can be used to playfully learn the basics of tour planning including danger identification and avalanche assessment, and to practice a variety of scenarios. Whether in a group on a training course or when planning a tour with advanced ski tourers: Information from the avalanche bulletin such as slope steepness, slope aspect, wind-borne snow and relevant danger areas are made much more conclusive on the mountain model. Through a variety of exercises, users playfully learn how to choose a tour that fits the conditions.
The SAFETY ACADEMY MOUNTAIN 3D (SAM) brings fun and visual understanding to safety training and tour planning. No matter whether you’re a beginner or a pro: Only practice makes perfect.
Our PRO GEAR is targeted toward pros for commercial use. Please send enquiries and orders via email to shop@ortovox.com
Area of usage
Product features
- The SAM includes:
Highlights
TERRAIN-RELATED AVALANCHE RISK FACTORS
Basic knowledge and exercises on estimating and measuring slope steepness and the impact of slope aspect upon avalanche danger.
TOUR PLANNING
Basic knowledge and exercises on how to use topographic maps, how to interpret the avalanche bulletin, and on risk management for tour planning.
WEATHER-RELATED AVALANCHE RISK FACTORS
Basic knowledge and exercises on the impact of wind and precipitation upon avalanche danger.
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SAFETY ACADEMY LAB SNOW
Our digital training platform for avalanche safety. Learn everything you need to know about how avalanches are formed, the correct way to plan a tour and the process for searching for an avalanche victim, and reduce your avalanche risk – online and interactive.
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