Trip Duration: 3 days 2 nights

Group Size: 3-4

Location: Haberl Hut, Tantalus Range 

Objectives: High Angle Steep Skiing & Skills Development

Costs: $1050 approximately, for Helicopter Drop and Pick-Up, ACMG Guide, and Accommodation

Role of Organizer: Participant and outdoor enthusiast, dreaming of Tantalus for decades, no financial interest in trip whatsoever

Dates: confirmed March 28-30 (if bird cannot fly, another similar set of objectives will be pursued)

Participant Requirements: AST1, substantial steep skiing experience, some steep mountaineering experience, rescue training, strong fitness. If interested please respond to the Questions

Gear Required: Ski Mountaineering equipment, steep ski descent gear, all Avy safety gear. Full gear list to be circulated.

Trip Description: The Tantalus Range has some of the most aesthetic and formidable steep lines in the Coastal Range. This trip is intended for expert skiers seeking to ski steep exposed and often high consequence terrain on angles 45+ degrees in one of the more magical environments on offer; and simultaneously improve their big mountain skills by utilizing a local ACMG guide. 

The use of the Guide will allow the group to improve its mountain skills in this high-angle environment, ensure a high degree of hazard management, and maximize skiing time by allowing the group to tap into the local knowledge and expertise of the guide. Note this trip is not intended to improve skiing skills. Expert steep skiing skills are required to participate but you need not be a expert mountaineer, but you must be able to manage yourself on steep high consequence terrain with an ice and crampons. 

With the access challenges as they are, a helicopter will be used to access Haberl Hut, from Squamish, for a drop and pick up.

Here is a link to last year's trip.  

https://vimeo.com/217946306

Here is another video that showcases some of the terrain on offer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdJAM8L031A

 Participants will not be selected on a first come first serve basis but on their respective skill set. Please take care to answer the questions. 

The goal is to have FUN and manage safety under the best circumstances possible :-)