Backcountry Ski Clinics
Our top guides know the terrain and the best route options.
At Mountain Skills Academy & Adventures, taking people into the mountains is how it all started. We are pleased to be one of the go-to guiding companies for Squamish & Whistler Mountaineering. We love to take people into the high mountains on treks they will always remember. Our top guides know the terrain and the best route options.
What is a clinic?
A clinic is not a course, it is building and refining skills so that they are applied in an efficient and effective manner, which then leads to a strong structured foundation for a safe, rewarding trip and rapid future progression.
Backcountry Clinics
Progression Backcountry
Price: $199/per person | $769/private (up to 6ppl)
Duration: 1 Day
Location: Whistler
Prerequisites: Average Fitness & Intermediate Skier
Minimum Age: 16 yrs
This course is developed to take skills obtained in our Introduction to Backcountry Ski & Splitboarding and AST 1 to the next level. Aimed around skiers and splitboarders who have been out in the backcountry a number of times and are looking to refine their movement skills, sharpen their risk assessment abilities, and overall, make themselves greater assets to their touring partners.
ADVANCED CREVASSE RESCUE
Price: $199/per person | $769/private (up to 6ppl)
Duration: 1 Day
Location: Whistler
Prerequisites: Average Fitness & Intermediate Skier
Minimum Age: 16 yrs
Self-reliance of small teams is key when travelling in glaciated terrain because any problem encountered has the potential to be severely magnified. Compared even to a smaller 3 person team, a single surface rescuer has less weight to act as a surface fall arresting force, they must hold the victim weight while building an anchor.
COMPANION RESCUE SKILLS CLINIC
Price: $199/per person | $769/private (up to 6ppl)
Duration: 1 Day
Location: Whistler
Prerequisites: Average Fitness & Intermediate Skier
Minimum Age: 16 yrs
The day starts with reviewing and perfecting the transceiver, probe, and shovel skills learned in AST1, but quickly moves on to the advanced skills you need to be the best team mate possible. Topics include advanced techniques like alternate search strategies, flagging/marking, analogue modes, and the most current probing and shoveling strategies. Students will also learn how to deal with more complex scenarios through effective resource management, triage, and how to approach multiple burials, deep burials, and burials in close proximity.
ADVANCED CREVASSE RESCUE
Price: $199/per person | $769/private (up to 6ppl)
Duration: 1 Day
Location: Whistler
Prerequisites: Average Fitness & Intermediate Skier
Minimum Age: 16 yrs
Self-reliance of small teams is key when travelling in glaciated terrain because any problem encountered has the potential to be severely magnified. Compared even to a smaller 3 person team, a single surface rescuer has less weight to act as a surface fall arresting force, they must hold the victim weight while building an anchor.
COMPANION RESCUE SKILLS CLINIC
Price: $199/per person | $769/private (up to 6ppl)
Duration: 1 Day
Location: Whistler
Prerequisites: Average Fitness & Intermediate Skier
Minimum Age: 16 yrs
The day starts with reviewing and perfecting the transceiver, probe, and shovel skills learned in AST1, but quickly moves on to the advanced skills you need to be the best team mate possible. Topics include advanced techniques like alternate search strategies, flagging/marking, analogue modes, and the most current probing and shoveling strategies. Students will also learn how to deal with more complex scenarios through effective resource management, triage, and how to approach multiple burials, deep burials, and burials in close proximity.
Progression Backcountry
Price: $199/per person | $769/private (up to 6ppl)
Duration: 1 Day
Location: Whistler
Prerequisites: Average Fitness & Intermediate Skier
Minimum Age: 16 yrs
This course is developed to take skills obtained in our Introduction to Backcountry Ski & Splitboarding and AST 1 to the next level. Aimed around skiers and splitboarders who have been out in the backcountry a number of times and are looking to refine their movement skills, sharpen their risk assessment abilities, and overall, make themselves greater assets to their touring partners.
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