Weekend 2 of a three-weekend program.

Summer Mountaineering Course is aimed at those with extensive hiking and backpacking experience and would like to learn the skills to travel beyond marked trails. 


The course content covers:

Weekend 1

• theory session on Tuesday, July 5th (to be confirmed)
• overview of mountaineering equipment: ice axe, crampons, pickets, ice screws
• use of ice axe - self arrest, glissading, up-/down-climbing steep ice
• use of crampons, travel on snow, self arrest with crampons on
• overview of basic knots - prussik, figure eight
• snow anchors
• preparing the rope for galcier travel
• how to tie in to a rope

Weekend 2

• theory session on Tuesday, July 12th (to be confirmed)
• how to tie in to a rope - review
• travel in a roped team, arresting a fall
• review of snow anchors
• running belays
• crevasse rescue
• glacier route-planning and assessment

Weekend 3

• putting it all together
• planning a trip - sources of information, route planning
• a weekend outing with an objective to summit one of the prominent peaks around Vancouver/Whistler/Pemberton
• review and practice of the learned concepts

Cost: $325


For more information and to sign up, please send an email to: programs@bcmc.ca.