Zacs Tracs is holding avalanche training workshops for the upcoming snowmobile season on November 4-5 at the Millarville School.

Instructor Lori Zacaruk says her rescue and AST1 workshops are a great way to upgrade or update anyones avalanche training.

"The two programs will give you hands experience with the avalanche equipment and watch a video about a deeply buried person which is very technical and knowing how to do these are where lives are saved."

She says you can still have fun in the mountains and be safe.

"There's a ton of things we can do in our riding day to still have an awesome time in the mountains but take a lot of that unecessary risk and remove it."

She says it's what we can't see under the snow that's the biggest concern..

"The dangerous situations are created in teh time period between the snowfalls because that's what creates the surface of what becomes the next buried layer."

Zacaruk added that other points that will be covered will be five key elements of organizing a rescue and how to determine if your riding partners are assets or liabilities

She says a local knowledge of a riding area isn't enough to keep you safe and adds the workshops will teach how to use your snowmobile's power to your advantage.

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