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Intro to Backcountry 2024 · Sat. Mar. 9th, 2024 - Sun. Mar. 10th, 2024
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Start: Saturday, Mar. 9th, 6:00 am
End: Sunday, Mar. 10th, 6:00 pm
Pre-trip meeting: Wednesday, Mar. 6th, 6:00 pm
Pre-trip meeting location: TBD
Description:
Do you want to explore the mountains in winter, make fresh tracks, avoid resort crowds and lift lines, and get some exercise while you're at it? Then you might want to learn how to access the backcountry on skis!
The goal of this trip is to help people who know how to ski transfer their skills to the backcountry. You will hopefully pick up some familiarity with backcountry gear, overnight camping, and you may learn a thing or two about avalanche awareness & safety. With that being said, this is not an avalanche course and we are not certified guides, if you want to get more into backcountry skiing (or plan on being in areas with avalanche risk no matter what's attached to your feet) you should take your AST1!
We will skin up to a moderate location, which will likely be Fat Dog Creek in Manning Park, set up camp, hopefully do some skiing above camp, sleep, and then repeat in reverse order on Sunday. More details are available on the wiki page (https://www.ubc-voc.com/wiki/Intro_to_Backcountry_Skiing), gear you will likely need can be found here (https://www.ubc-voc.com/wiki/Gear_Lists#Winter_Overnight).
Pre-reqs:
- ability to ski blue runs, ideally with tree-skiing experience
- ability to carry overnight gear for one night (backpacking experience)
- The snowboarding equivalent is also fine, just be prepared to faff with a splitboard.
- If you're not sure if you meet the pre-reqs but really want to come feel free to send me an email.
Have backcountry experience and want to help out? Please sign up as a helper!
The pre-trip meeting is mandatory. If you can't make it send me an email and we can try to work something out.
*Most of this trip posting is shamelessly taken from AJ Dreher and Haley Foladare's 'Intro to Backcountry' trip postings from previous years.
Posted: 2024-01-31 10:55:37
Last modified: 2024-03-09 17:07:50