Expedition Preparation and Climbing Skills

For those wanting to ascend peaks that need weeks of acclimatization or significant travel in the backcountry you'll learn:

• Equipment management, what you need and what you don't as well as how to keep track of it all.
• Backcountry skills such as campsite selection and construction, waste management, packing sleds and packs primarily focused on winter conditions.
• Basic snow travel skills such as self arrest.
• Crevasse rescue and travel ascending and descending fixed lines.
• Basics of acclimatization and other backcountry physiology.
  Introduction to avalanche rescue skills and equipment.
• After taking this climbing course participants should feel ready to start heading into bigger climbs with significant backcountry and travel logistics.

No previous climbing experience is necessary. While helpful primarily participants must be able to take care of themselves in cold, wet alpine environments.