Women's Splitboard & Ski Mountaineering: 4 Day
Guided Exposure is thrilled to offer one of the first women-led splitboard mountaineering courses. Led by expert guides Kiira Antenucci and AMGA Splitboard Guide Sarah MacGregor, this 4-day course takes place on the glaciers of Mount Baker or nearby North Cascades terrain. Over 3 nights and 4 days, participants learn, practice, and apply essential mountaineering skills, with the goal of a Mount Baker summit when conditions allow.
- Women-Led Instruction: Learn from skilled women guides with extensive splitboard and mountaineering experience.
- Comprehensive Training: Gain hands-on experience with glacier travel, mountain movement, camp systems, and route planning.
- Skill Development: Receive direct feedback to improve splitboarding, touring efficiency, and mountain decision-making.
- Summit Achievement: Apply your skills toward a Mount Baker/Kulshan summit objective when weather and conditions align..
- Prices: Based on a minimum of 2 participants.
- Private Courses: Available for custom dates.
- Glacier Travel: Navigate glaciated terrain efficiently as a team.
- Mountain Safety Systems: Practice essential rope, snow, and group travel techniques.
- Knots & Hitches: Build familiarity with core mountaineering knots and hitches.
- Ice Axe and Crampon Movement: Develop movement skills for firm snow and alpine terrain.
- Winter Camping: Learn how to stay warm, dry, hydrated, and efficient in camp.
- Riding in Variable Snow: Improve splitboarding technique for changing spring conditions.
- Strong intermediate or higher skiers and splitboarders with a solid touring foundation.
- Backpack skiers and riders comfortable descending with a mountain pack.
- Fit adventurers ready for multiple long days of glaciated mountain travel.
- Day 1: Meet and greet, gear check, and travel to camp on the glacier.
- Day 2: Practice glacier travel, route finding, movement skills, and a warm-up ride.
- Day 3: Build mountain systems, navigation, group travel, and summit-style riding skills.
- Day 4: Put the skills together during a summit climb and descent before returning to the trailhead.
This course is for strong intermediate and advanced women skiers and splitboarders who already have touring experience and want to build mountaineering skills for glaciated Cascade terrain.
Students work on glacier travel, route planning, ice axe and crampon movement, camp systems, group decision-making, mountain movement, and efficient ski or splitboard descents in variable snow.
Yes. You should be comfortable skinning, skiing or riding with a pack, managing transitions, and traveling in backcountry terrain. This course adds mountaineering skills to an existing touring foundation.
The course is typically based on Mount Baker/Kulshan or nearby North Cascades terrain. Final venues depend on snowpack, weather, access, and group goals.
Bring a ski or splitboard touring setup, helmet, harness, crampons, ice axe, glacier travel gear, overnight equipment, layers, food, and water capacity. A final gear list is confirmed before the course.
Gear list
Gear list
Gear required varies trip to trip. Your guide helps you decide what to bring or leave during the gear check. Need to rent crampons, ice axe, harness, or helmet? Let us know when you book.
Cancellation
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