{"id":187544,"date":"2023-10-18T13:01:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T17:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=187544"},"modified":"2023-10-18T13:01:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T17:01:58","slug":"avalanche-safety-youth-education-group-returning-to-nelson-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/avalanche-safety-youth-education-group-returning-to-nelson-this-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche safety youth education group returning to Nelson this winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AvalancheAwarenessBeyondBoundaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Avalanche Awareness Beyond the Boundaries Society<\/a> (AABBS) is returning this year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The not-for-profit group was formed in 2009 and worked to address a need for youth education regarding avalanche safety. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more than a decade, they provided free avalanche awareness courses in Nelson to youth aged 13 - 18 but were unable to continue through the COVID 19 pandemic. Earlier this year they reformed the group with new board members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Board member Robin Mitz says funding from local businesses <a href=\"https:\/\/vmt.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Valhalla Mountain Touring<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/amblermw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ambler<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/vpo.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Valhalla Pure Outfitters<\/a> has allowed them to run two courses this winter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was a deadly season across the province in 2023. Avalanches claimed several lives in BC last winter, including <a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/second-nelson-police-officer-dies-following-fatal-b-c-avalanche\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two off duty Nelson police officers<\/a> back country skiing in Kaslo.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AABBS is holding their own fundraising event on Thursday, Oct. 19 at Backroads Brewing from 7-10 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first course runs from Jan. 5-7 the second is March 2-4, 2024. <\/span>Sign up for those courses opens on Oct. 20. More information is available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hummingbirdlodge.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whitewater Ski Resort Website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Avalanche Awareness Beyond the Boundaries Society (AABBS) is returning this year. The not-for-profit group was formed in 2009 and worked to address a need for youth education regarding avalanche safety. For more than a decade, they provided free avalanche awareness courses in Nelson to youth aged 13 &#8211; 18 but were unable to continue&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":187553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,221],"tags":[31558,31560,7430,31559,27566],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187544"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187724,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187544\/revisions\/187724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187544"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=187544"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=187544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}