Get the knowledge and training necessary
to be a safer, smarter, and better backcountry snowmobiler.
Based in Jackson Hole, WY and serving the Northern Rockies,
The Mountain Riding Lab provides motorized specific avalanche education and skills training
through accredited avalanche courses, awareness and outreach, and avalanche safety consulting.
Founded in 2016, our passionate instructors bring over 17 years combined experience
in backcountry snowmobiling, professional guiding and avalanche education.
We are an American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education (AIARE) certified provider
and all of our avalanche courses and instructors meets AIARE and American Avalanche Association (A3) guidelines.
Our goal is to save lives and promote a culture of safety, awareness, and responsibility in the backcountry
by providing the highest quality nationally and internationally recognized avalanche training programs -
for sledders, by sledders.
The Mountain Riding Lab provides motorized specific avalanche education and skills training
through accredited avalanche courses, awareness and outreach, and avalanche safety consulting.
Founded in 2016, our passionate instructors bring over 17 years combined experience
in backcountry snowmobiling, professional guiding and avalanche education.
We are an American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education (AIARE) certified provider
and all of our avalanche courses and instructors meets AIARE and American Avalanche Association (A3) guidelines.
Our goal is to save lives and promote a culture of safety, awareness, and responsibility in the backcountry
by providing the highest quality nationally and internationally recognized avalanche training programs -
for sledders, by sledders.
Are you a good riding partner ?
Could you rescue someone in your group if they were caught in an avalanche?
Does your group formulate a plan based on the avalanche forecast
and know how to identify terrain to avoid?
Are you confident that your terrain choices and travel techniques
will keep you and your group out of harm's way?
Avalanche Courses
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Motorized AIARE Level 1 is a 3 day / 24 hour avalanche course specifically designed for snowmobilers and snow bikers. With a 70/30 field/classroom split, this course emphasizes riding time and teaches the fundamental aspects of the AIARE risk management process and decision making with respect to backcountry snowmobiling and snow biking in avalanche terrain. Topics covered include preparation, planning, and execution of a backcountry ride based on avalanche conditions, avalanche terrain identification, hazard mitigation and safe travel techniques; weather, snowpack, and stability analysis; and avalanche rescue techniques. This is the essential course for any backcountry snowmobiler. |
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Motorized AIARE Avalanche Rescue is a 1 day / 8 hour field course that covers the essential life saving skills and techniques of companion rescue. Learn how to properly use your transceiver, shovel, avalanche probe, and other gear. This course is great for any experience level and is intended to be retaken on a regular basis in order to keep up to date on the best practices in avalanche rescue techniques and gear. New participants will learn the basics of companion rescue, while return participants can expand their skill set with advanced topics and complex realistic scenario practice. This course is a great for standalone learning; to expand on the basic rescue skills in a Level 1; or to begin every season with your riding group to get dialed on your skills and rescue gear.
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Motorized AIARE Level 2 is a 3 day/24-hour course that provides backcountry riders an opportunity to advance their decision making skills in more complicated situations with respect to traveling in avalanche terrain - such as being the leader of group, riding in complicated terrain, and/or developing a plan where resources are scarce. This course builds on the backcountry decision making process introduced in AIARE 1 and adds to it the evaluation of critical hazard assessment factors with more focus on weather, snowpack, avalanche processes, and identify how these processes relate to observations and riding in avalanche terrain.
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Custom Courses
The Mountain Riding Lab can customize and schedule a course to fit your needs. Want to host and awareness event or a private class
for your riding group? Contact us to see how we can come to you!
for your riding group? Contact us to see how we can come to you!
Contact Us
If you have any questions, would like to inquire about scheduling a course,
or would like to host The Mountain Riding Lab in your area, please fill out the contact form below.
or would like to host The Mountain Riding Lab in your area, please fill out the contact form below.
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The Mountain Riding Lab
PO Box 7718 Jackson, WY 83002 (307) 200-7929
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