How to earn your badge:

1. Show you understand what equipment to carry for the different two types of activity you may undertake:

   1. A single lesson
   2. A day on the hill
   3. An expedition in the woods
   4. An off-piste experience
   5. A session at a snow park

2. Show how to look after yourself and others in the event of not being able to return down the mountain, or being stranded on a route.

3. Show your ability to use a ski map or resort map and identify where you are on the map.

4. Plan a half-day's activity, considering the following:

   1. Location
   2. Group size and ability
   3. Equipment
   4. A plan B in case of bad weather etc.

5. Participate in a snowsport activity different from that which the other requirements have been completed in.

   This could be something completely new or an activity you’ve not done for a while such as skiing, snowboarding, cross country skiing, ski touring and slalom.

6. Choose and complete two of the following:

   1. Demonstrate your ability to safely descend a black run
   2. Perform a sequence of turns in fresh snow, leaving even tracks behind
   3. Complete a day’s cross country ski trip, planning your route before you go
   4. Complete a cross-country timed route and then improve your time over a two further attempts