Snow safety, avalanche awareness courses in Austria

For the last decade the Austrian non-profit organisation SAAC has been running a series of winter camps for off-piste skiers and each season more than 1000 skiers and snowboarders take part in this great event.

The two-day camps are free of charge and run by certified mountain and ski guides who provide all the necessary equipment for the course. Everyone over 14 year of age can take part in the camp and the aim is obviously to increase participants' awareness of alpine hazards outside marked pistes.

This season the camps will be held 25 times in ski resorts above all in Austria's Voralberg and Tyrol. Registration is possible online on the site www.saac.at.

Snow & Avalanche Awareness Camps 2009/2010
Stubaier Gletscher I (Tyrol)	November 14 & 15, 2009
Kühtai (Tyrol)	December 5 & 6, 2009
Warth-Schröcken I (Vorarlberg)	December 12 & 13, 2009
Axamer Lizum I (Tyrol)	December 19 & 20, 2009
Warth-Schröcken II (Vorarlberg)	January 9 & 10, 2010
Westendorf (Tyrol)	January 9 & 10, 2010
Leogang (Salzburg)	January 16 & 17, 2010
Lienz (East-Tyrol)	January 16 & 17, 2010
Warth-Schröcken III (Vorarlberg)	January 23 & 24, 2010
Wildschönau (Tyrol)	January 23 & 24, 2010
Nordpark (Tyrol)	January 30 & 31, 2010
St. Jakob i. D. (East-Tyrol)	February 6 & 7, 2010
Füssener Jöchle Grän I (Tyrol)	February 6 & 7, 2010
Schnalstaler Gletscher (South-Tyrol)	February 20 & 21, 2010
Warth-Schröcken IV (Vorarlberg)	February 27 & 28, 2010
Mayrhofen (Tyrol)	February 27 & 28, 2010
Galtür (Tyrol)	March 6 & 7, 2010
Axamer Lizum II (Tyrol)	March 6 & 7, 2010
Füssener Jöchle Grän II (Tyrol)	March 13 & 14, 2010
Alpbachtal (Tyrol)	March 13 & 14, 2010
Kleinarl-Flachauwinkl (Salzburg)	March 20 & 21, 2010
Hochfügen (Tyrol)	April 10 & 11, 2010
Obertauern (Salzburg)	April 17 & 18, 2010
Stubaier Gletscher II (Tyrol)	May 8 & 9, 2010