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We take your safety seriously and our safety record speaks for itself. However there is always risk in the back-country beacuse we are dealing with a natural and uncontrolled enviroment. We can not fully eliminate this risk, but with a good team and with good procedures it is possible to reduce and manage this risk. We believe that we are the only Cat skiing operation of have a mobile safety team on the mountain every day. Some of the many steps that we take to help manage this risk are:
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We use only qualifed guides:
Superrvising Guides must be ACMG Ski Guide or Canada Ski Guide Level 3
Lead Guides must be Canada Ski Guide Level 2 or ACMG assistant guide.
Tail Guides - must have at a Minimum their CAA 1 and a 40 Hour wildderness first aid. 3 of our tail guides for this winter are professional para-medics
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We have a safety and support team out on the Mountains every day - they are mobile on snowmobiles - and can provide rapid extra assistance if required.
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We use our own radio repeater - that gives us constant communications. We also have a satellite phone.
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We do snowtesting and take weather observations every day.
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We are part of Infoex for the CAA - this means that share information with about 100 other operation in Canada every day in relation to avalanche and weather observations
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We have rescue Caches in the snowcats and on the toip of the main mountains that we ski.
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We use what we think are the Best Modern Transcivers the Barryvox and the Barryvox Pulse.
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Our terrain and Cat Roads allow us to get to the top of all the Mountain that we ski - this is helpful as iit means that we do not have large avalanche slopes overhanging what we ski.
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