Ready to take your backcountry skiing to the next level? This comprehensive backcountry ski mountaineering course combines backcountry skiing with mountaineering to get you higher into the more alpine ski terrain. Learn to ski couloirs, steeps and wide open glaciers. We also cover technical mountaineering techniques as they apply to skiing big peaks.

Located in California's alpine ski mountaineering hot spot in the Sawtooth Range and Northern Yosemite National Park of the Sierra Nevada. The Sawtooths has all the ski mountaineering terrain you could ask for...without the crowds.

Ski mountaineering instruction covered:

• Skiing Steeps & Couloirs
• Snow Anchors, Ropework & Rappeling
• Ice Ax and Boot Crampon use
• Crevasse Rescue on Skis
• Navigation & Route Planning
• Snowpack Stability Evaluation

Taught by UIAGM/IFMGA internationally certified ski mountaineering guide and CAG owner Dave Miller. Dave has a history of being a full time ski racer and has over 35 years of skiing experience including ski mountaineering and guiding experience throughout the Western US, Alaska and the Alps of France and Switzerland.

Learn world standard ski mountaineering techniques on this comprehensive ski course... and get in some great turns as well!

View the Itinerary for this trip.

For other backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering tours check out our main ski touring page.

Location: Sawtooth Range - Bridgeport, California, East Side of the Sierra. Only 4 1/2 hours from the S.F. Bay Area and and one hour north of the resort town of Mammoth Lakes.

For area information view our Bridgeport Travel Page

Prerequisites: Advanced level skiers with some previous backcountry skiing experience. Good physical condition and the ability to carry an overnight pack all day on skis.

Dates 2012: Mar 16-19
Custom Dates Available

Cost: $750.00

Included:

• All group camping equipment and avalanche safety equipment (backcountry ski rentals available).
• Breakfast & dinner while in the backcountry.
• AMGA certified ski mountaineering guide
• Price above is dependent on a total of 3 registrants. In the event of 2 registrants a $150 surcharge applies