Advanced Splitboarding
Duration: 2 days; Overnight
Difficulty: Intermediate
Experience/Pre-req’s: Prior experience in winter backcountry snowboard travel

Details:
The goal of the Advanced Splitboard Course is to further develop your decision making and terrain management skills. This course emphasizes advanced trip planning techniques, advanced route selection and terrain assessment, rescue techniques and scenarios, and emergency shelter construction. Students will gain leadership experience by leading tours during which communication, group dynamics, and risk-management will be addressed. The course will span 2 days and 1 night in the backcountry, with an overnight in abackcountry hut.

Topics to be covered include:

• Beacon, shovel, and probe review, including beacon drills
• Advanced trip planning, terrain selection, and navigation with a map and compass
• Leadership skills
• Planning and execution of overnight winter camping, including emergency shelter construction
• Whiteout navigation
• Avalanche mock rescue scenarios
• And ripping some awesome turns!