Prerequisites:
Previous hiking or scrambling experience
Highlight skills:
Short roping, Snow and Ice climbing, Anchor Building
Our Intro Mountaineering courses are designed to challenge you and give you the skills to travel safely in hazardous terrain.
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Our Intro Mountaineering courses are designed to challenge you and give you the skills to travel safely in hazardous terrain. With plenty of hands-on training in the field and the appropriate student/instructor ratios for each course, the learning curve increases dramatically. We choose the best locations specific to the demands of the course.
This 4 day intro mountaineering course introduces you to the world of Mountaineering through the development of climbing skill sets. We start with the basics at our local cliffs and progress through the weekend to attempt a high alpine summit. Saturday/Sunday will be spent overnight in the mountains camping. There’s safety in numbers for the neophyte, so this course runs at a low Student to Instructor ratio.
*This course may use a local gondola to access the alpine depending on conditions. The cost of these lift tickets is not included.
Previous hiking or scrambling experience
Short roping, Snow and Ice climbing, Anchor Building
Our goal is to dial-up our participants in Glacier Travel, Crevasse Rescue, and Alpine Rock tactics. Students typically look to tackle glaciated peaks after the course, such as Mount Baker, Mount Garibaldi, Mount Matier, or simple alpine rock routes such as Blackcomb Buttress, Pigeon NE ridge, Kain Face - Bugaboo Spire.
If you have logged some time in the mountains, scrambling or advanced hiking, and are ready to take it to the summit- this is the course for you!
No previous outdoor rock climbing experience (although recommended)
Fitness to be moving for a minimum of 6 hours
Likes being outside
Flexible Cancelation Insurance
$102
Day 1 – Rock & Rope Skills
Squamish based
Using maps to plan objective
Rock protection tactics
Short pitching on rock
Short roping on rock
Rappelling
Day 2 – Rock, Snow and Ice climbing
Overnight in Whistler or Squamish backcountry
Pitched climbing in snow and ice
Crevasse identification and avoidance
Understanding mountain hazards
Roping up for glacier travel
Supervised practice
Day 3 – Rock, Snow and Ice climbing
Overnight in Whistler or Squamish backcountry
Self-arrest
Snow climbing techniques
Ice climbing techniques
Snow anchors, Rock anchors, and Ice anchors
Supervised practice
Day 4 – Student lead objective
Students lead the objective to put all skills into practice.
*Content covered is dependant on conditions and group abilities
