| Ready to take your backcountry skiing to the next level?
This comprehensive backcountry ski mountaineering course combines
backcountry skiing with mountaineering to get you higher into
the more alpine ski terrain. Learn to ski couloirs, steeps and
wide open glaciers. We also cover technical mountaineering techniques as they apply to skiing big peaks.
We base ourselves high in the Sawtooth Ridge area in California's Northern High Sierra. We establish a comfortable base camp at the base of countless ski lines, couloirs and mountaineering objectives.
Ski mountaineering instruction covered:
- Skiing Steeps & Couloirs
- Snow Anchors, Ropework & Rappeling
- Ice Ax and Boot Crampon use
- Crevasse Rescue on Skis
- Navigation & Route Planning
- Snowpack Stability Evaluation
Taught by UIAGM/IFMGA internationally certified ski mountaineering guide and CAG owner Dave Miller. Dave has a history of being a full time ski racer and has over 35 years of skiing experience including ski mountaineering and guiding experience throughout the Western US, Alaska and the European Alps.
Learn world standard ski mountaineering techniques on this comprehensive ski course... and get in some great turns as well!
View the Itinerary
for this trip.
For other backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering tours
check out our main ski touring
page
Location: Hoover Wildernesst,
California, East Side of the Sierra Nevada. Only 4 1/2 hours from
the S.F. Bay Area and and one hour north of the resort town
of Mammoth Lakes.
For area information view our Bridgeport
Travel Page
Prerequisites: Advanced level skiers
with some previous backcountry skiing experience. Good physical
condition and the ability to carry an overnight pack all day
on skis.
Dates 2015: Feb 26 - Mar 1
Custom Dates Available
Cost: $795
Included:
- Breakfast and dinner
- Group gear and use of 4-season tents
- Sleeping bag & pad if needed
- Avalanche safety equipment
including shovel and avalanche transceiver.
- Professional guiding
and instruction from IFMGA certified ski guides.
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