Available Dates

June 28th - July 1st, 2025

Aim

Develop the necessary skills to travel safely and enjoyable through glaciated and mountainous terrain.

Objectives

• Confident navigating using map, compass, and GPS
• Confident with Peak Planning Procedure™ including data collection and analysis, whiteout navigation plans, emergency response plans, developing GO/NoGO criteria, time appreciations, decision making during execution, and debriefing
• Confident identifying hazards in glaciated mountainous terrain
• Confident with glacier rope systems for safe travel in crevassed terrain
• Comfortable with the crevasse rescue systems in case of a crevasse fall
• Comfortable with self-arrest and self-belay techniques
• Comfortable walking and scrambling in crampons
• Comfortable using a technical mountaineering tool (aka “mountain axe”)
• Comfortable moving through 3rd and 4th class alpine terrain (aka “scrambling”)
• Comfortable with glacier morphology to assist in route selection and hazard avoidance
• Comfortable with T-slot snow anchors to be used in conjunction with crevasse rescue systems
• Comfortable placing and removing ice screws in alpine terrain to be used in conjunction with crevasse rescue systems
• Comfortable building and using v-threads for anchors in glacier ice
• Understand terrain belays and the difference between terrain belays and short roping

Prerequisites

No prior experience is required. This course is suitable for beginners.