Covers mountain travel and navigation, safety and environmental issues, snow travel, glacier travel, crevasse rescue, self arrest, and ascent of a moderate peak.

You must be an experienced backpacker, and by the end of the program you should be able safely to undertake most club trips up to the B4 level.

Participants must provide all backpacking and camping equipment, sit harness, ice axe, helmet, crampons. The BCMC provides needed technical equipment (ropes etc), and two prussiks for each participant.