Intro to Ice Climing - Mt. Baker Seracs

Preference is given to climbers whith no or marginal steep ice climbing experience.

Minimumu requirement: Rock climbing TR 5.9 or higher. Plus some alpine (ice and crampon) experience.

I will make an exception for good rock climbers (lead 5.9,10) they learn ice climing very fast.

You can rent boots and Crampons at MEC. The Club (and myself) delivers the ice tools.

-Emphasis is on basic ice climbing technic - Anchors, movement on ice,  the magic triangle technic - not on fancy adventurous ice climbing.

-This intro hopefully will enable you to sign up on BCMC ice climbing trips coming Winter.

-More info end August/beginning September.

- Ratio of Volunteer Instructors: If I am the only instructor I can take out 4-6 participants(2 rope teams). I am looking for additional instructors so that we can accept 8 to 12 participants (ratio of 1:4 is best, 1:5or 6 is maximum)

We will go on Saturday -or- Sunday (depending on weather)

MORE INFO AND SIGN-UP  VIA A GOOGLE DOC SHEET - CLICK LINK BELOW: (Email, phonecalls only in emergency)

docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc

Participants should also check this out - How to Ice Climb/Triangle: www.youtube.com/watch

How to place an Ice Screw: www.youtube.com/watch

This is where we go: www.youtube.com/watch

This is what you can do in 3-4 years: www.youtube.com/watch

This is what you should do before the trip :-)  www.youtube.com/watch