{"id":801532,"date":"2019-11-19T19:23:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T02:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=374687"},"modified":"2019-11-19T19:23:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T02:23:41","slug":"breckenridge-based-guide-company-partners-with-nonprofit-to-provide-avalanche-courses-to-local-high-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/breckenridge-based-guide-company-partners-with-nonprofit-to-provide-avalanche-courses-to-local-high-school-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Breckenridge-based guide company partners with nonprofit to provide avalanche courses to local high school students"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SAFE AS skier and instructor Jackie Paaso leads an avalanche beacon search clinic in December 2017 at Copper Mountain Resort.<\/strong>
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FRISCO \u2014 Back when she was a freeride coach in Big Sky, Montana, lifelong skier Kelli Rohrig noted that kids as young as 10 were required to have avalanche gear because so much of the terrain her athletes skied on was mitigated avalanche terrain. Rohrig then helped make a requirement that the athletes, despite their age, learn how to use the gear.<\/p>\n

Many years later, Rohrig is still working to expand backcountry avalanche awareness in young skiers. For the past half-decade, the Vail Valley-native and her brother, professional skier Chris Anthony, have put an emphasis on avalanche education for youths, teaching avalanche awareness classes to High Country kids via The Glide Project, a nonprofit they founded together.<\/p>\n

For the first time this winter, The Glide Project will conduct classes in Summit County. Rohrig said the Summit County classes were made possible thanks to a partnership with Abe Pacharz, the new owner of Colorado Adventure Guides in Breckenridge. After multiple attempts to organize a Summit County-based class in recent years, Rohrig said Pacharz didn\u2019t hesitate to take the program on.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbe saw the opportunity, and that\u2019s how we got into Breckenridge,\u201d Rohrig said. \u201cIn the past, we\u2019ve had kids driving over the pass to attend classes, so I\u2019m much happier not having teenagers driving over Vail Pass.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result, The Glide Project and Colorado Adventure Guides will host a three-day American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education Level 1 course for high school students Dec. 20-22. The course will consist of several hours in the classroom as well as portions of two days spent out practicing skills in the snow. The course is offered at the reduced cost of $400 and is available for $200 for those who earn a scholarship.<\/p>\n

Then on Feb. 29, The Glide Project and Colorado Adventure Guides are partnering for an AIARE Companion Rescue class. The class \u2014 which covers how to use a transceiver and shovel as well as how to do group rescues \u2014 is open to students ages 11 and older and costs $155 or $50 for those who have a scholarship.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a good opportunity for kids not looking to commit to the three-day class,\u201d Rohrig said, thought students are encouraged to take both classes.<\/p>\n

There are 12 spots available for each class.<\/p>\n

Rohrig is hopeful the class will not only benefit high-school-age skiers in Summit. She said that in recent years, there have been students who have attended from the Front Range.<\/p>\n

Rohrig hopes the partnership with Colorado Adventure Guides will reach the kind of Summit County backcountry skiers and snowboarders she sees in deep backcountry zones, like the Vail Pass Recreation Area. Rohrig said it is impressive to see youths skiing and riding big lines in some of the region\u2019s most revered zones. Rohrig thinks many of these youth recreators are the children of longtime local skier and snowboarder parents. With that, Rohrig hopes there is somewhat of a trickle-up effect where the young students\u2019 avalanche awareness education inspires their elders to learn more, as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s kids in the backcountry,\u201d Rohrig said. \u201cWe know for a fact that this is a thing and \u2014 to be honest \u2014 for the most part, those kids are better skiers than most. There are groups that get after it, kids getting well into the backcountry exploring well beyond what people would recognize. \u2026 It\u2019s pretty impressive where some of these high schoolers are going. And they are good skiers. We\u2019d be remiss to not recognize that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Glide Project also is looking to bring its free avalanche education and snow science seminars to more Summit County schools. Last winter, the nonprofit presented at The Peak School.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit chrisanthony.com\/the-glide-project<\/a>. To register, email abe@coloradoadventureguides.com<\/a>, and to apply for a scholarship, email glideprojectscholarships@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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SAFE AS skier and instructor Jackie Paaso leads an avalanche beacon search clinic in December 2017 at Copper Mountain Resort.Summit Daily file FRISCO \u2014 Back when she was a freeride coach in Big Sky, Montana, lifelong skier Kelli Rohrig noted that kids as young as 10 were required to have avalanche gear because so much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-801532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 19:29:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}