Colorado Adventure Guides

12/05/2024

Our Backcountry Demo Center in Silverthorne is open for your backcountry rentals! AT skis w skins & poles! boots. splitboards with skins & poles! avalanche safety beacons, shovels & probes. Snowshoes, mountaineering, & ice climbing gear too. Let us get you outfitted for fun! Reserve online.

12/03/2024

avalanche beacons are so user-friendly - they have Integrated Voice Navigation guiding your search. We're a retailer participating in their amazing sale thru 1/31/20245: trade in ANY MANUFACTURER'S old beacon to our and we can sell you a Diract Voice at 30% off! Details at Ortovox's site.

12/02/2024

Just - wow.

12/02/2024

Avy Savvy Free clinic! 12/4/24 Hideaway Park Brewery, Winter Park, 6 pm. Cosponsors: Icebox Mountain Sports, Fraser; and ORTOVOX

WHAT: Learn to identify and avoid avalanche terrain. Participants form touring groups, and use guided exercises to choose a tour that fits the conditions and minimizes avalanche risk. Groups use ORTOVOX’s SAM3D Mountain model as an interactive learning tool to demonstrate avalanche terrain and to simulate tour planning. Participants identify avalanche terrain, interpret and apply an avalanche forecast to their mountain model, and draw and explain their route.

Register: https://www.coloradoadventureguides.com/backcountry-education/winter-clinics/

12/01/2024

Need an 1 or Rescue course? We need December students! You have only 3 more days to save 20% on December openings! Or save 15% Jan-March on anything we do during this Small Business Saturday sale. Book using coupon code FB15 at our website or by phoning 970.893.8007.

11/28/2024

Take an Avalanche Rescue course and practice efficient rescue techniques in realistic scenarios. Learn beacon functions, and how to seek, probe & shovel as a group. Practice rescues with your companions every year. Keep beacons away from all batteries and electronics which interfere. Courses twice monthly Dec-March. Use code FB15 to save 20% on Dec courses, 15% on others.

11/27/2024

BLACK FRIDAY SPECIALS! Save 20% on remaining December spots in AIARE 1 and Avalanche Rescue. Save 15% Institute for Avalanche Research and Education AIARE 1, 2, & Rescue, or Intro to Backcountry Ski/Splitboard, winter mountaineering, snowshoeing and ice climbing courses & trips. Use code FB15 before 12/3/2024 & book: 9708938007 or on our site.

Colorado Adventure Guides - Backcountry outfitter with guided tours & instructional courses in backcountry skiing & splitboarding, rock climbing, rafting, mountain biking, climbing, hiking, and more!

11/19/2024

What: Free Avy Savvy Clinic - ORTOVOX Safety Academy - Avalanche Danger and Tour Planning
Where:
When: Wednesday, 11/20 @ 6 pm

In this snow safety clinic, learn to identify and avoid avalanche terrain. Participants form touring groups, and using guided exercises, learn to choose a tour that fits the conditions and minimizes avalanche risk. Groups use ORTOVOX’s SAM3D Mountain model as an interactive learning tool to demonstrate avalanche terrain and to simulate tour planning. Participants identify avalanche terrain, interpret and apply an avalanche forecast to their mountain model, and draw and explain their route.

Attendance is capped at 25, so register now https://www.coloradoadventureguides.com/backcountry-education/winter-clinics/

11/15/2024

To our local friends - a housing opportunity

11/13/2024

Wanna learn what equipment you use to venture into the backcountry? Join us at Full Cycle & Colorado Multisport in Boulder next Tuesday, Nov 19 @ 6pm for our Backcountry 101 Free Avy Savvy clinic. The clinic touches on avalanche safety, also. Register here: https://www.coloradoadventureguides.com/backcountry-education/winter-clinics/

11/11/2024

When is early season snow dangerous? If Colorado's early snow storms are followed by long stretches of cold, dry weather before the next storm, the snow grains can break down into facets, or “sugar snow.” These unbonded, sugary crystals can create weak layers in our snowpack that can last the whole winter and plague us with instabilities – the cause of many avalanches. Read what more to watch for at our backcountry blog https://www.coloradoadventureguides.com/winter-season/early-season-snowfall-in-colorado/

11/09/2024

Winter is here! Here is a snowpack update from one of our own, Justin Ibarra

Toured today in the Vail/Summit County area with partner . Overcast skies with calm winds and S1-S2 snowfall through early afternoon. Traveled from 10,600ft to 11,900ft on WSW and SW'ly aspects. HS ranged from 30-35cm at lower elevations to about 60-65cm at 10,800ft and then decreased again, nearing a ridgeline at 11,900ft. Skied 2 laps on WSW'ly slope and 1 lap on more SW aspect. Soft surface conditions and on some lower elevation, steeper and more open slopes we found a 1-2cm sun or melt freeze crust roughly 10cm down. Elsewhere this was not present and there was no major noticeable or concerning layering until we encountered minor collapsing near ridelines with wind loaded snow. Overall a great early season tour. Let it snow, let it snow!!

11/07/2024

Intermediate-level Avy Savvy Free Clinic: Trip Planning and Terrain Management
Where: Breckenridge, CO
When: Friday, Nov 15, 2024

Terrain management is a tool we can use to reduce our risk in avalanche zones. In this intermediate-level snow talk, we cover the basics of how backcountry travelers choose appropriate terrain for a tour. Consider weather history and forecast, snowpack conditions, avalanche hazard forecast, details of your group and human factors, and how these affect terrain choices. Learn about resources, key observations, and considerations to make an effective tour plan.

11/06/2024

CORRECTION TO EARLIER PROMO CODE! USE GMBAVY10 INSTEAD. Hey powder hounds! We're running a special on December avalanche education, snow safety courses, Level 1 and Rescues. Beacon, shovel, probe, & backpack included with course if needed. Call to book: 970.893.8007. Terms apply.

11/04/2024

We'll be teaching two Avy Savvy Free Clinics next week!

1) Wed 11/6 Backcountry ski/splitboard Weston Lakewood, CO. Lakewood. 6 pm. How to choose and use backcountry gear.

2) Thurs 11/7 ORTOVOX safety sessions Mountaineering, Golden, CO. 6 pm. Avalanche Danger and Tour Planning. Hands-on. Use SAM3D mountain model to plan a backcountry trip with a group.

Courses are free but registration is required. Go to our linktree.

11/03/2024

The 4 ingredients of many slides: 1. bonded snow over weak layer. 2. failure initiation by weight of skier or snowmobiler. 3. crack spreading out from traveler. 4. slope angle >30 degrees. Thanks for the diagram! Learn more at one of our free Avy Savvy clinics.

11/02/2024

Join us at the 7th Annual Beacon Bash, Saturday, November 16! Hosted by , in their parking lot. Begins at 9 am with 3 beacon parks and gear demos. Our own Justin Ibarra conducts a mock rescue scenario. Check your beacon functionality. Sponsors incl Weston, ORTOVOX & more. Gear giveaways benefit Friends of CAIC and Friends of Berthoud Pass.

10/31/2024

What's the most dangerous position to be in when your group tours in the backcountry? First. In this Safety Academy slide, we see that >90% of skier-triggered avalanches happen when the first person enters the slope. Also, choosing slopes with angles less than 30 degrees avoids most avalanches. Register for our free Avy Savvy clinics to learn more basics.