Learn Ski-touring & Splitboard in Wasatch (Salt Lake City / Park City)

Honest level: Beginner -> Pro avalanche — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Schools in Wasatch (Salt Lake City / Park City)

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Utah Mountain Adventures
  Ski & Splitboard Mountaineering Camp (3-Day)
  Wasatch-based since 1993, Utah Mountain Adventures runs a 3-day Ski & Splitboard Mountaineering Camp that teaches ice-axe and crampon use, anchors, rappelling, and couloir ascent and descent on Wasatch objectives such as Wolverine Cirque and the Pfeifferhorn.
  https://www.utahmountainadventures.com/
• Wasatch Mountain Guides
  AIARE Level 1 Avalanche Course (hybrid)
  Wasatch Mountain Guides delivers AMGA-certified ski and splitboard instruction including an AIARE Level 1 hybrid course with an online module and two 8-hour hands-on field days in the Wasatch covering hazard evaluation, decision-making, and companion rescue.
  https://wasatchmountainguides.com/
• American Avalanche Institute courses
  Professional Avalanche Training 1 (Pro 1)
  The American Avalanche Institute, which teaches Avalanche Level 1 courses in the Wasatch, runs the 5-day Pro 1 professional training that coaches and evaluates the observation, snowpack, and risk-management skills required to contribute to an operational avalanche program.
  https://www.americanavalancheinstitute.com/

The credential

AIARE / avalanche Pro certification + IFMGA ski-touring guiding (recreational gold: AIARE 1-2) · Certifying body: IFMGA guides + national avalanche standards (CAA, AIARE, AAA); ISMF (racing)

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Ski-touring & Splitboard

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.