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02-14-2018, 11:22 AM #1
Ski mountaineering courses around last week of April
I've been researching options for ski mountaineering courses around the end of April. I took a 3-day ski mountaineering/glacier travel course last year on Mt Baker - this was a great experience, but mostly focused on glacier travel. This spring, I want to get experience accessing some steeper lines and learning the associated skills - safe travel/belaying/rapelling/etc.
Sawtooth Guides and Bell Lake Yurt both look awesome and offer courses when I'm available. Any other courses out there?
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02-14-2018, 11:39 AM #2Registered User
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Canada $ is cheap. Check out mtnguiding.com/trips/ . Good reviews around this site. They run a Wapta trip around that time. And the guide people like Hoji so they can't suck too much.
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02-14-2018, 02:48 PM #3Registered User
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02-14-2018, 03:52 PM #4
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02-14-2018, 04:15 PM #5
Altus Mountain Guides in Whistler/. Check the Tantalus steep ski and mountaineering camps
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02-14-2018, 04:37 PM #6Registered User
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02-14-2018, 07:32 PM #7
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02-14-2018, 11:42 PM #8
If you can make it up here, Icefall lodge has an amazing location for this type of course... End of April, early May - Advanced Ski Mountaineering Course
http://www.icefall.ca/availability-and-prices/
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02-15-2018, 12:03 PM #9
Another option is hiring a guide for a few days and create your own "class". Cheaper of you get a couple friends to join. That way you work on what you want to learn which may or may not be what will be taught in a group class.
I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...iscariot
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02-15-2018, 12:20 PM #10Registered User
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I think ben does one outta his yurt or cabin in the Beartooths. Been a huge year already and this spring I'm sure people are gonna be ticking off lines left and right.
Bell lake is cool as well.
Canada seems like a no brainer.
Lots if options don't think you can go wrong.
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02-15-2018, 01:09 PM #11
Altus course fyi - had it on TGR frontpage but their frontpage is kind of dogshit so links got corrupted
http://www.leelau.net/sharonandlee/s...eering-course/
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02-15-2018, 02:06 PM #12mental projection
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Good stuff from SMG and Beartooth. Chris and Sara will teach you well at SMG so will Clark at the BTG.
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02-15-2018, 02:08 PM #13
thefortress, good on your for seeking another course. If you want to learn belay and rappel techniques, do some prior research re building anchors (e.g., ski, picket, bollard, ice axe, rock horn, V-thread, deadman, etc.) and anchor vector forces. If you rock climb, you may already know some of that.
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02-15-2018, 03:03 PM #14
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02-15-2018, 03:06 PM #15
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02-15-2018, 03:25 PM #16
It may not be too expensive to do it solo and 100% of guides attention. You can just set up a couple days of skiing climbing with a guide and tell him/her what you want to learn so the best area/line can be choosen.
I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...iscariot
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02-15-2018, 07:53 PM #17
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