The Premier Resource For Digital Mapping Education
Backcountry Travel - Emergency Preparedness - Outdoor Professional Development
MTN Mapping EDU hosts online, self paced, courses for individuals looking to increase their ability to use and create digital maps. Whether it’s for backcountry skiing, creating natural disaster plans or continued educational development for mountain professionals, there is something for everyone.
Our Current Offerings
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The Backcountry Mapping Library
For $25 a year, you can gain access to over eight hours of video tutorials covering everything from early season scouting of a persistent weak layer to creating a custom ski atlas for a backcountry skiing hut trip. Mapping platform tutorials cover programs like Caltopo, onX Backcountry, Fatmap and Google Earth Pro, all taught by a certified American Mountain Guides Association Ski Guide & Avalanche Forecaster.
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Emergency Mapping Masterclass
In an ever changing world, daily threats loom from natural and man made disasters all the way to civil unrest and pandemics. This online course will teach you how to create a custom emergency map for you, your family, and your community. A custom map can increase effective communication, threat analysis and resource allocation, working towards stacking the cards in you & your families favor. Discomfort can be avoided with careful planning.