overview

This course is intended for anyone hoping to go further afield with their splitboarding and prepare the advanced backcountry rider to do overnight hut trips and camping trips with their splitboard. This course will focus predominantly on gear selection, how to pack an overnight pack for splitboarding, considerations with winter camping and tour/trip planning tips for being in a wilderness location. These skills will open up a huge variety of terrain one can splitboard in WA and around the world, and is one of the best ways to get fresh tracks away from crowds. This course is also a prerequisite for any of our Canadian hut trips and ski descents of Cascade volcanoes, such as Komo Kulshan (Baker) or Shuksan.

DETAILS

Location: Snoqualmie Pass, WA & Mt. Baker Backcountry
Ratio: Up to 5:1 student to instructor
Length: 1 Evening Gear Check & 2 Full Field Days
Cost: $1700.00 per person - 1 Participant
$1000.00 per person - 2 Participants
$750.00 per person - 3 Participants
$600.00 per person - 4 Participants
$500.00 per person - 5 Participants
Dates: February-March

Custom dates are available for this program by submitting a Private Booking Request or
calling our office at (619)432-5462.

Topics covered

• Selection of gear for overnight splitboarding

• How to pack an overnight backpack for splitboarding that will have minimum compromises to affecting movement skills

• Ways to move more efficiently with an overnight backpack, both on the up & downhill

• Snow shelter construction and winter camp fortification

• Cooking and Water Treatment

• Tour planning using tools available in the backcountry, such as using your phone and non-digital mapping tools (analog trip planning tools)

• Trip planning considerations when in a remote location (i.e how to fetch avalanche & weather forecasts using satellite communication equipment, tests to do to notice snowpack change without an updated avalanche bulletin)

Includes

Professional Splitboard Guide
Evening gear check at Cripple Creek Backcountry - Seattle
2 Full days of guiding touring at a 4:1 ratio
All breakfasts and dinners in the field
All group camping equipment (Tents, Stoves, Fuel)
Emergency communication

Excludes

Transportation to and from the meeting locations
Lunches and snacks
Personal clothing, appropriate for the conditions
Transceivers, shovels, probes (rentals available from The Mountain Bureau)
Splitboard Touring equipment (rentals available from Cripple Creek Backcountry)

PREREQUISITE EXPERIENCE OR SKILLS

• Participants should have at least 1 season of backcountry riding.

• AIARE 1 or equivalent certification required.

• Participants should be able to ride in-bound “black diamond” runs in all snow conditions (in control).

• Participants should have great uphill fitness and be able to walk uphill with a 40 lbs backpack on (fully loaded).

Minimum Age

Students 16-17 years old, with consent from a parent or guardian and prior approval by The Mountain Bureau (please call or email prior to enrolling)

Activity Resources

Sample Gear List - Ski/Split Touring & Mountaineering Overnight

All programs are subject to the Mountain Bureau LLC Terms & Conditions