Navigate Through Holes Safely
GLACIER TRAVEL & CREVASSE RESCUE
GLACIER TRAVEL & CREVASSE RESCUE
SKI MOUNTAINEERING GROUND SCHOOL
Crevasse Rescue Course:
December 20/21st, 2025
If you’re planning on walking over any glaciers anytime soon (you likely are), you’ll want to be prepped with the proper navigation skills and be ready if anything (or anyone) goes south. This course will teach you how to be a safe and competent partner for glacier travel on skis - including roping up, anchor building, and crevasse rescue.
Our glacier travel course is two days - one in Squamish working on technical rope skills and the second at Blackcomb (conditions dependent) for field practice.
prices?
$350 pp at a 6:1 student to guide ratio.
What Do I Need?
Advanced skiing skills
AST 1 or equivalent
Backcountry skiing set up
Basic glacier kit (if you don’t have everything, don’t sweat it. We’ll have spares and you’ll get to try different options).
December 20/21, 2025
Two-day crevasse rescue and glacier travel course.
Day 1:
-The deep dive into ropes and technical systems. The bread and butter of crevasse rescue is lowers and raises. If you can switch between the two, you can do everything you need! You’ll get a chance to play with all the equipment and test out different combinations. We’ll also intro getting roped up for glacier travel and different configurations.
-Ropes/technical systems day will be in Squamish.
Day 2:
-In the snow practice for the messy parts of crevasse rescue. Moving while roped up and establishing anchors. We’ll practice a few different types of anchors and how to go from being dragged down by your partner to being able to pull them back out! We’ll dig around in the snow and run though scenarios of pulling each other back out.
-You’ll need full ski touring kit (with extra warm layers for being in the hole) and all the items we identified the day before.
-Field day will likely be at Blackcomb however it will be conditions dependent.
Ground School
Being able to quickly move through complex terrain while ski mountaineering often comes down to ability to use the rope efficiently with a variety of transitions. Arriving at a ridge crest, you may need to build a quick ski belay to scout the cornice, then establish a fixed anchor to rappel over the edge and into the line. The rope is stowed quickly while skiing the first pitch, then pulled back out for another rappel mid-line after building an anchor using a horn and piton. All of this is done with limited equipment on the harness and with a solid understanding of a few knots and other tools.
This half-day session will review all of these rope skills that get a little fuzzy in the summertime.
Ground School
None currently planned. Reach out to schedule a private group session!
Squamish based
95$
Evening class!
Dryland review of rope skills for ski mountaineering - ideal for the skier with less of a climbing background
Choosing technical tools for ski mountaineering (ropes, anchor kit, rappel kit, harness, etc...)
Critical knots for ski mountaineering
Rigging for lowers and rappels
Mid-line anchors