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Evergreen Avalanche Safety & Training

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Evergreen is the number one English provider of avalanche safety and rescue skills in Japan. David Enright is fully qualified by the Canadian Avalanche Association to teach the following Avalanche Skills Training (AST) courses (click links for details & dates):

››AST Level I
››AST Level II

We encourage you to study as much about avalanche safety as possible, here are several articles by Dave Enright of Evergreen to get you started:

››Backcountry Safety Preparation 1
››Backcountry Safety Preparation 2
››A Step Forward for Avalanche Safety in Japan 1
››A Step Forward for Avalanche Safety in Japan 2
››A Tragedy

If the dates we have scheduled don't work for you, and you have a group of 6 or more, contact us by email and we may be able to organise a special Avalanche Skills Training course for you.

Evergreen Daily Hakuba Snow Reports

We at Evergreen make daily snow advisory reports based on our testing areas. The weather reporters and snow stability forecasters at Evergreen are professional and passionate about what they do and make it their goal to provide the most accurate accounts of the conditions in the Hakuba Valley, but this is no substitute for undergoing proper avalanche skills training.

››Hakuba Snow Reports updated daily in Winter


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backcountry hakuba avalanche training

backcountry hakuba avalanche training