2.5 Day SKI MOUNTAINEERING Clinic
progression with the Zenith guide team
What's this about?
In 2022, we offered a pair of two-day small-group, intensive ski mountaineering skills clinics. The goal wasn't just another crevasse rescue course prettied up by calling it "ski-mountaineering" but a useful look into how professionals use strategy, specialized techniques, and equipment to move through complex terrain in the high mountains. These aren’t esoteric skills that are going to be learned once and never used but actual things you can do to make every day in the backcountry more successful.
This is not your typical clinic. We want to show you our approach to accessing and moving smoothly through complex mountain terrain. This will be a combination of skill development and objective oriented travel.
We will start the course with a Zoom call to complete our trip planning. We'll review how we go about planning and preparing for the weekend ski opportunities.
Our first field day will be primarily skills based. This will most likely be held off of Whistler-Blackcomb. The focus of the day is technical skills required to arrive at a ski line or ridge and assess how best to move through that terrain with a variety of solutions.
Our second day will be objective based where participants will be expected to put to practice the skills we use and over the course of a single-day traverse, approach a handful of lines and make good decisions throughout!
WHAT TO BRING
Strong skiing skills
A good base of backcountry experience
Basic ski mountaineering skills
Glacier travel kit
Backcountry setup
What you get:
Online Weather and Navigation courses to do at your leisure available on sign up
Pre trip engagement for making sure you are prepared.
Connection with great people for making future missions happen
Rad ski lines in new zones!
Dates and RATES
$725 pp or 775 with fall ground school (pay for both via this page and we’ll refund you afterwards. Bundling is too complicated…)
Dates for camps:
Jan 18/19
Feb 1/2
Mar 8/9
Week prior online skills
3:1 certified guide to client ratio
