This 3-day course provides backcountry leaders the opportunity to advance their avalanche knowledge and decision-making skills. The AIARE 2 builds on the introductory avalanche hazard management model introduced in the AIARE 1 and adds to it the evaluation of critical hazard assessment factors. All students must have taken an AIARE 1, Avalanche Rescue, and have 1 season of practical experience after taking the AIARE 1 course. Our AIARE 2 courses are unique in the sense that we only run them in hut-based or a snow camping based (tent, snow shelter) format. This is an amazing way to immerse yourself into the environment while also learning how to execute an overnight in the winter backcountry. Students will describe and discuss weather, snowpack and avalanche processes, and identify how these processes relate to observations and travel within avalanche terrain.