Direct Action Vertical

Northern lights over the DAV Training Center!

Will be posting on all our recent classes this week. We've been super busy. But wanted to share these photos of the northern lights over our training structure and lodging. Also includes summit of Cline Butte where we do our tactical tracking courses and some MSPAR work.

Course photos coming next!

DAV just completed an incredibly successful visit with one of our most amazing customers: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory!

JPL has been a Direct Action Vertical customer for 6+ years, with DAV providing expedition planning/rigging/leadership and logistical expertise, through a variety of JPL projects/missions: Mt Rainier, Mt St Helens, Mt Meager, and Athabasca Glacier, Canada.

Our most recent visit included both a basic/advanced glacier safety course for the JPL scientists, and a rigging/planning workshop for the EELS (Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor) project. EELS is a potentially world-changing mission; it could one day look for signs of life in the oceans hiding below the ice of Saturn's moon Enceladus!

DAV's talented instructors worked closely with JPL's team of brilliantly innovative engineers to train, plan and ensure the success of the upcoming September field test at Athabasca Glacier in the Canadian Rockies.

Enjoy this JPL EELS video and a few stills from our days at JPL! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAIWm7BL4v4