Splitboard Mountaineering
Duration: 2 days; 8-8.5 hrs day
Difficulty: Intermediate – Advanced
Experience/Pre-req’s: Advanced riding skills and prior backcountry snowboarding experience

Details:
Much like our steep skiing clinic, the goal of this course is to teach skills and decision making for snowboard travel in a mountaineering environment. The first day will emphasize travel with crampons, an axe, and rope management. Trip and route planning, communication planning, and emergency response planning are also addressed. Afterwards, the group will decide on and plan a mountaineering objective for the second day.

Topics to be covered include:

• Introduction to climbing equipment
• Use of knots, tie-ins, belays, anchors, and rappelling
• Ice axe use, including self-arrest and belay techniques
• Crampon use
• Free-climbing on snow
• Climbing and traveling on couloirs
• Advanced trip planning and route selection
• And ripping some awesome turns!