Ski-Mountaineering Leadership Course

Alpine Touring Gear, Telemark, Split-Snowboard

This full week course concentrates on learning about safety and leadership for ski-mountaineering and snowboard-mountaineering, while touring on large alpine terrain and deep powder-snow conditions. You will be out skiing, observing and learning as you cover miles in a variety of terrain.

To maximize the learning experience, the guests themselves will lead the tours under the supervision and instruction of Ruedi Beglinger. Ruedi will only lead when examples have to be set. Ruedi will offer individual guidance tailored to your personal skill level. Many people take this course to gain more experience, while others start their apprentice training with this course to later become a ski-guide.

SME will supply all guests, free of charge, with avalanche safety beacons, avalanche shovels, avalanche probes, emergency radio (two per group) and avalanche safety packs, the ABS Pack. The ABS Pack is a mechanical avalanche safety devise with a hand-trigger that, in case of an avalanche, can be pulled. Within 3 seconds two large air-bags inflate, thus greatly increasing the chance of staying on the surface of an avalanche.

• Helicopter flight from Revelstoke to the Durrand Glacier Chalet
• Avalanche rescue course, snow-profile, short ski-tour

• general route finding
• efficient track setting
• route safety on glaciers
• evaluation of snow-pack and planned route
• evaluation of alpine terrain
• skiers impact on snow-stability of larger slopes
• weather
• map, compass, GPS
• route preparation
• injured skier rescue system
• Hut to Hut skiing

• rope handling
• crevasse rescue of a friend
• crevasse self rescue

• Flight back to Revelstoke

• physically healthy and in very good physical shape
• able to climb a minimum of 5500 v. feet / 1700 v. meters per day
• able to link a minimum of 30 short radius turns in a fall-line, in deep snow-conditions and with a back-pack of 6 kilogram.
• able to ski with good control of your skis in difficult situations

Dates and prices: Please refer to Schedule and Prices