Our Online Courses
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Join online courses taught by pro guides of the Outdoor Adventure Club
Each 90 minute class is taught by a live instructor, on Zoom, with time for Q&A during and after the course.
Online classes are free to OAC members! Non-members are welcome and can purchase classes one at a time.
Best deal!!! Subscribe to all our classes for $100. The $100 Online Subscription gives access to all our classes for 6 months.
We have online avalanche classes, navigation/ CalTopo.com and rock climbing classes. We’ll keep adding classes, especially while we are sheltering in place.
Avalanche classes include:
- What is avalanche terrain
- Parts of the avalanche advisory
- The nine avalanche types or problems
- Surface Hoar
- Facets and rounds- snowpack metamporphism
- Storm slabs and wind slabs
- Defining your safety margins around the nine avalanche problems
- Knowledge check: How much do you know about the nine avalanche problems
- Opening and closing terrain on CalTopo, with defined margins from the avalanche advisory
Navigation classes include:
- How to read a map, for “I’m not a map person”
- CalTopo pt 1; A comprehensive tour of the basics
- CalTopo pt 2; Using CalTopo to show open/closed terrain
Rock climbing classes include:
- Anchoring basics
- Building anchors off of trees, boulders
- Belaying from above
- Setting up a 3:1 haul system
Here are our currently scheduled online learning courses. Check back often, as we are always adding more great classes. Have a topic you’d like to see in an online learning format? Just let us know.
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The Outdoor Adventure Club also offers hiking, backpacking, rock climbing, hiking and camping, kayaking, mountain biking, whitewater rafting, backountry skiing/boarding, avalanche courses, snowshoeing, and other adventures. Go to our full Event Calendar!