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ATES Trip Planning
If you have taken an Avalanche Skills Training One course you will have learned to use the Avaluator Trip Planner to cross reference the severity of terrain (ATES ratings) with the avalanche hazard ratings from the avalanche bulletin to plan your trips into the mountains in winter.
We, your forecasters at the Island Avalanche Bulletin, have finally started to do Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) ratings for some of the more popular island trips. Click the links below to download the file for the trips you are interested in. If you do not see the trip that you are looking for please get in touch with us at forecaster@islandavalanchebulletin.com. We may have a file that we have been working on but have not uploaded yet and could email to you, or at least you may be prompting us to rate that trip next!
Here's what we've got so far:
Mount Becher - ATES Simple
Circlet/Moat Lake ATES Simple
Mount Albert Edward from Circlet Lake via Jutland Ramparts - ATES Challenging
Mount Myra - ATES Challenging
Mount Washington North Ridge to McKay Lake - ATES Challenging
Mount Washington Ginseng Chute - ATES Challenging
Mount Washington Safety First - ATES Challenging
Mount Cain East Bowl - ATES Challenging/Complex
Mount Cain West Bowl - ATES Challenging/Complex
If you have not taken an AST1 course yet we suggest that you do. These ratings will be much more useful to you with that training. Click here for more information on avalanche courses.