Prerequisites
Intermediate to advance ski ability and experience skiing powder.
Highlight Skills
Use of backcountry ski gear, companion rescue, up hill-climbing, powder skiing techniques and mountain hazards evaluation.
Learn how to take your downhill skills into the backcountry, where the fun really happens.
Book NowOur 1-day Intro Backcountry Touring course introduces participants to backcountry ski/split touring gear, travel techniques, avalanche awareness, route finding, route planning, whiteout navigation and descent strategies.
Participants will leave confident in their ability to join friends or lead trips in simple backcountry terrain. This is also the perfect course for those wishing to spend more time on technique before diving into our AST 1+ Course.
Our courses run at a maximum of 8:1 student-to-guide ratio to ensure participants gain as much as possible from the course.
We offer an online course as well. For more information click here.
Intermediate to advance ski ability and experience skiing powder.
Use of backcountry ski gear, companion rescue, up hill-climbing, powder skiing techniques and mountain hazards evaluation.
This 1-day course covers the skills that make up a confident backcountry skier/split-boarder: the fundamentals of avalanche phenomena/avoidance, uphill backcountry travel, tackling lines and, of course, how to use that new backcountry setup.
This course is great for anyone new to backcountry touring. Participants who pair this course with an AST 1 course will be primed to access simple and challenging backcountry terrain. Although no backcountry experience is required for this course, ski/board experience is. Participants should be comfortable riding black diamond runs and have experience riding powder.
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