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Glacier Travel – Golden / Rogers Pass

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About the Course

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This is a two day course: one day rope work in town (Golden) and one day applied theory in Rogers Pass or KHR.

This course blends a full day of learning the rope skills necessary to perform a crevasse rescue, with essential glacier travel skills that will teach you how to avoid falling in a crevasse in the first place! Classroom theory focuses on aspects of glaciology that will guide your route choices. The half-day classroom session is followed by a half day of introduction to the rope skills involved in glacier rescue. We will then spend a full day on the glacier practicing all of these skills.

Minimum of 4 people needed to run the course: 6 max.

 

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  • Ability to travel in the winter backcountry

Equipment Lists

  • Required Items: Please bring the following to the classroom session on day 1
    • Snacks
    • Pen & Pencil
    • Harness: a lightweight climbing-type harness with gear loops that can be put on over-top of your boots and outerwear
    • 2 , 5m x 6mm cordalette
    • 2 locking carabiners
    • 2 non-locking carabiners

Required Items: Please bring the following to the second-day field trip

  • Lunch & Snacks: Bring a variety of small snacks to eat on-the-go, such as bars, jerky, cheese, as well as a sandwich is recommended. We don’t often have the time/weather for a lengthy sit-down lunch
  • Water/Tea: A warm thermos of tea/hot chocolate as well as 1L of water, hydration packs are not recommended due to cold freezing the tube
  • Skis: ‘Alpine Touring with touring bindings’ or ‘Telemark’. Please practice transitioning your bindings from ski-mode to walk-mode and back again. Mel Makepeace loves the Icelantic Nomad Lite for ski touring performance

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  • Split Board: with split board skins. Please practice transitions from touring mode to riding mode at home before the field day

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  • Ski Poles: recommended for all modes of travel
  • Climbing Skins ‘Stick-on type’ (only required if using skis or split boards)
  • Boots: we won’t be using our skis/boards for travel, only for building anchors, so please wear very warm winter boots
  • Harness: a lightweight climbing-type harness with gear loops that can be put on over-top of your boots and outerwear
  • 2 , 5m x 6mm cordalette
  • 2 locking carabiners
  • 2 non-locking carabiners
  • Day Pack: large enough for spare clothes, lunch. 30 liter minimum size recommended
  • Sunglasses and/or Ski Goggles: we recommend both as high output activities will fog up your goggles. Goggles with multiple lenses are especially handy; XSPEX Goggles “Chaos”
  • Sunscreen

Optional Equipment: Not essential, but feel free to bring

  • Chemical hand warmers& toe warmers packs
  • Field Book & Pencil
  • Compass, Inclinometer
  • Ice-screw
  • Selection of slings
  • Pulley
  • Micro traxion
  • Tibloc
  • Hollow bloc

our Instructors and Guides

The Mountain Addicts team is obsessed with safety. All of our guides are members of the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG). The ACMG is the only internationally recognized professional association of trained and certified mountain guides and instructors in Canada. Our guides come from a variety of backgrounds and experiences and Mountain Addicts will find your perfect match.

Meet the Team

Mel Makepeace

Ski Guide & Owner

Mel is the owner of Mountain Addicts, an ACMG Ski Guide and Professional Member of the Canadian Avalanche Association. She began her career as a ski patroller in 2008 and now travels the world ski touring and heli-ski guiding. Mel particularly loves facilitating mountain travel confidence in women.
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Anne Cayer-Huard

ACMG Ski Guide

Corin loves sharing the mountain experience and the connections that are made while learning and exploring in the backcountry. Since 2011, Corin has been guiding ski trips in the mountains of Western Canada. He lives in Fernie with his family and spends his summers running icewalks.com ; a glacier guiding business in Jasper National Park.
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Dan Pichette

ACMG Ski Guide

Dan won't reveal exactly how many years (or decades...) that he has been guiding for in an effort to maintain an air of youthful exuberance. His resume is quite lengthy though and includes work as a heliskiing guide at Mica Heli Guides, and as an Industrial Avalanche Technician in north-western British Columbia. Dan and his family recently moved to Kimberley BC and now enjoys working with Mountain Addicts where he can share the joy of backcountry travel with folks from around the world! When Dan isn't exploring new places and looking for adventure, you can find him queitly relaxing with a good cup of coffee.
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