To prevent avalanche accidents and help people make good decisions in avalanche terrain, Avalanche Canada and avalanche professionals in over 30 Canadian communities share their expertise to help people keep safe in the mountains during Avalanche Awareness. This year Fernie Alpine Resort will be hosting a two-day Buried Treasure Challenge to celebrate Avalanche Awareness.

10:00 am – 2:00 pm each day at the Avalanche Transceiver Training Area

Come and test your companion rescue skills and win some amazing prizes! You can choose which level of difficulty to compete at, the harder the challenge the bigger the prizes.

How does the game work?
Drop into the Avalanche Transceiver Training Area
Bring your own transceiver and probe or borrow one of FAR’s (we recommend you practice with your own equipment if possible).
Choose your level of difficulty (easy, medium, hard) which will determine how many signals you have to find. The more difficult the challenge, the bigger the prizes.
To complete the challenge, you must find all the transceiver signals in the Avalanche Transceiver Training Area with a successful probe strike for all of them.
Once you’ve complete the challenge, FAR event volunteers will draw you a prize at random from the corresponding prize draw (easy, medium, hard).

Prizes:
Here is an example of prizes you could win for each level in this challenge. Prizes are limited and are based on availability.

Easy – Helly Hansen toque’s, cap’s, balaclava’s (value $30-$40)

Medium – Helly Hansen base layers (value up to $110)

Hard – Helly Hansen duffle bags & trolley bag (value $130-$320)

Thanks to our sponsors; Helly Hansen, Avalanche Canada, BCA, and FATMAP