Backcountry Skiing and Snowboarding

Intermediate Group Lesson

Women's Intermediate Backcountry Skiing & Splitboarding is a one-day course that builds your physical and intellectual backcountry knowledge so you can get the most out of your avalanche education and backcountry tour. During your intermediate group lesson, you will develop more advanced skinning, transition, and downhill techniques and be introduced to essential trip planning and navigation tools, weather observations, and avalanche forecasts. Enjoy a longer tour with multiple aspects. You’ll leave this course feeling confident in your backcountry skiing/riding abilities and prepared to take a Group Tour or AIARE 1.

*This course is a collaboration with BVMA Guide and Women Who Splitboard founder, Rhema Wiarda.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Navigation Trip Planning Basics - Practice basic route finding using paper maps and digital aids and how to read weather and avalanche forecasts; recognise avalanche terrain on a map and in the field by measuring slope angles

• Departure Check - student led transceiver check before departing the trailhead

• Uphill Travel - Learn how to break trail and set a good skintrack; introduction to kick turns

• Transitions - improve efficiency when switching from tour mode to downhill 

• Downhill Travel - how to ski as a group, stack tracks, and communicate effectively including practice using radios

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