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Snow Travel Skills

Winter or early season travel on mountain trails often involves traversing snow covered trails with significant exposure. Our Snow Travel Skills class teaches you the techniques of ice axe and crampon use to maintain your footing and to enable you to self-belay and self-arrest to reduce the risk when traveling on hard snow or icy slopes.

We cover the following topics:

  • Clothing and equipment for snow travel
  • Route planning
  • Navigation in snow covered terrain
  • Ice ax technique
    • Self-Belay
    • Self-Arrest
  • Glissading under control
  • Using Crampons

We usually hold this class on Mt. Hood and it lasts about four hours.

Price includes instructor(s), round-trip transportation from the Portland area, trekking poles, ice ax, and crampons.

We can conduct a session any time an instructor is available and snow conditions are suitable. Give us a call at (866) 936-0910, or send an e-mail.