Advanced Splitboard Mountaineering: 4 Day

Elevate Your Splitboarding Skills with Our 4-Day Advanced Splitboard Mountaineering Course

Join us for an unforgettable 4 day seminar through the rugged and awe-inspiring glaciated terrain of Mount Baker or Mount Shuksan. Designed for advanced to expert splitboarders, this course will challenge you to climb summits like Mount Sherman, Colfax Peak, or explore the Boulder Glacier. This course has been created and refined over the past 10 years offering participants the longest running splitboarding mountaineering program in Washington and the North Cascades. Led by AMGA Splitboard Guide Jere Burrell, this course aims to elevate your splitboard mountaineering skills while imparting proficiency in navigation, snow camping, and technical descents using ropes.

Course Highlights: Advanced to Expert Riding

This course is ideal for those with advanced riding abilities on terrain up to 50 degrees in variable snow conditions such as spring corn and wind buffed pow, strong skinning skills on side hills with split crampons, and excellent fitness for four days of spectacular travel, riding steeper glaciated terrain, and mountaineering with ice axes and crampons. Prepare to tackle more challenging routes and explore off-the-beaten-paths worldwide.

Why Join This Course?

• Unparalleled Adventure: Experience the unique discovery of splitboarding in some of the most breathtaking glaciated alpine landscapes. Venturing into remote corners of Mount Baker and Mount Shuksan
• Skill Enhancement: A structured progression through description, demonstration, and practice allows seminar participants to learn and refine crucial mountaineering skills while splitboarding rad terrain.
• Expert Guidance: Benefit from the expertise of our seasoned guide, Jere Burrell. We offer the longest running and most refined Splitmo Course. No ski techniques here.  

Join Us Now

Ready to take your splitboarding journey to the next level? Book your spot in our 4-Day Advanced Splitboard Mountaineering Course today and elevate your skills in the heart of the North Cascades.

Itinerary

• Day 1: Meet and greet, gear check, and travel to camp on the glacier.
• Day 2: Engage in roped glacier travel and route finding, self-arrest techniques and limitations, and rappelling for splitters. Enjoy a warm-up ride before moving to the next camp.
• Day 3: Dig into splitboard specific snow anchors, crevasse rescue, navigation, belayed riding, and ride from a summit, descending to our next camp.
• Day 4: Put all acquired skills to the test during a summit climb and descent. Return to the trailhead.

Learning Objectives

• Crevasse Rescue: Master essential rescue techniques such as rope ascending and descending, 3:1 Z Drag, 6:1 drop "C" and group rescue for glaciated terrain.
• Ice Axe Techniques for Descending: Improve your ability to descend and assess the use and feasibility of safely using an ice axe.
• Rope Usage in Steep Terrain: Gain confidence in handling ropes from kiwi coils and snow bollard rappels to belayed riding and Ice Rappels on "V" threads during challenging descents.
• Multi-day Traverse Expertise: Refine the day in and day out skills for extended splitboarding journeys by settling into camp, staying warm dry and well fed, assessing for crevasses, packing back up and ready for another day exploring the wild.
• Complex Glaciated Terrain Route Finding: Learn to navigate tricky glaciated routes by avoiding crevasse bridges, anticipating crevasses based upon glacier flow, overcoming bergschrunds.
• Belayed Riding: Offering security while investigating new terrain, assessing crevasse crossings, or enhance your ability to ride safely with the support of a guided belay to build mental fortitude
• Rappelling: Master rappelling techniques for splitboard mountaineering.
• Snow Anchors: Understand the importance and application of splitboard specific snow anchors in mountaineering. No ski anchors here.

Ideal Participants

• Splitboarders with advanced riding ability on terrain up to 50 degrees in variable snow conditions of spring corn, wind buff, or powder.
• Those with strong skinning skills and fitness for four days of travel and learning.
• Participants eager to learn and apply new mountaineering skills.

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