Alpine Skills International

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Client/Guide Ratio: 4:1

Includes:
All backcountry ski and mountaineering equipment, all rental gear listed on Equipment List (reservation required), 5 breakfasts, 5 trail lunches, 4 dinners, all GROUP camping gear, campsite fees, boat taxi (if needed) and van transportation from and to Reno/Tahoe International Airport.

Does not include:
All personal gear listed on Equipment List. Restaurant meals before and after the course.

Youth Ski Mountaineering Camp 5 Day
Tioga Pass, Sierra Nevada

This 5-day program, operating in conjunction with The Hans Saari Memorial Fund, is designed to take strong skiing young athletes (age 13-17) into a high alpine backcountry environment to practice travel, climbing with skins, steep skiing and mountaineering technique to help increase safety and security.

The camp will be based from a vehicle (walk-in) campground near Tioga Pass at over 9,000 feet. It will include day trips from base camp, then a 2-day overnight tour with a high mountain, light-weight camp.

We will visit high glaciers including the Conness Glacier and the Dana Glacier practicing rock, snow climbing and descending skills, camp craft and camping techniques.

The guides will be Eric DesLauriers and Peter Mayfield. Both are exceptionally qualified professional ski mountaineering guides with great experience teaching and coaching young skiers. They are both AMGA certified guides.

Cost: $990

Dates:

June 9-13, 2008 (Mon-Fri)

Skills covered will include:

Expedition style basecamp technique
High & Light bivouac camp technique
Route planning and preparation
Equipment selection
Packing technique
Climbing ski/skin travel
Use of avalanche transceiver, probe and shovel
Avalanche and hazards assessment
Risk management and decision making
Climbing with ice axe and crampons
Using harness and rope on rock and snow
Controlled steep skiing skills
Leave No Trace backcountry priciples

Course Learning Outcomes

To recognize, assess and mitigate risks and hazards associated with ski mountaineering
To develop skills and techniques to help create more options to manage risks
Develop a framework for decision making in a mountain environment
Develop an appreciation of a high alpine environment with multiple days spent in High Sierra terrain

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