We put you in the hot seat while touring and provide critical feedback to help you refine your skills! Our focus is to help you be more efficient while touring and make better decisions on bigger objectives. This is a limited ratio course (3:1) to help facilitate travel and maintain a realistic nature of the touring party size.

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Topics Include:

-Planning challenging yet realistic objectives based on conditions

-Skinning/route finding in advanced terrain

-Efficient track setting

-Terrain management with a group on uphill

-Terrain management with a group on downhill

-Time management

-Evolving your avalanche forecast based on observed conditions

-Backcountry preparedness

-Improvised rescue and evacuation

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Prerequisites:

Advanced ski or snowboarding ability

Ability to skin a minimum of 3000' at a moderate pace

Avalanche I certification