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Alpine Rock: 3+ Days 
Discover the exhilaration of climbing and traversing awesome granite spires
in the remote Cascade Mountains of British Columbia! Discover the exhilaration of climbing and traversing awesome granite spires in the warm, dry Cascade Mountains of British Columbia’s Cathedral Provincial Park. Alpine Rock allows you the opportunity to learn while climbing technical summits with a professional guide. This program can be customized to fit your needs, whether you prefer an experiential guided trip or a technical training course. You begin by hiking into Cathedral Provincial Park to reach your alpine
meadows base camp. Your camp, located at 6,700’, is surrounded
by walls of 8,500’+ tall granite spires and ridges, many of which
you will climb over the duration of your stay. Your base camp is strategically
located, providing short access to the start of your climbs with quick,
easy descents back to camp at the end of each day.
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| Crevasse Rescue: 1 or 2 Days  Self-reliance
is key in the mountain environment. Essential knowledge for summer mountaineers
or ski tourers includes the ability to perform a self-rescue in glaciated
terrain. Crevasse Rescue gives you a working knowledge using the minimum
equipment required to perform a successful rescue. All of these systems
meet professional Association of Canadian Mountain Guide standards.
Skills include; glacier travel, knots and rope management, snow and ice anchors, securing a fallen climber, escaping the belay or tie-in system, advanced rappels using a back-up system, prussic systems, Z-pulley systems, lowering systems, tandem rappels and counter-balance rappels. Unless you have prior experience and only need 1-day to review your present rescue system, we recommend the full 2-day course. On our 2-day course, the first day is a dry-land practice session while the second day is on snow. For a 1-day course, we could look at either a dry-land session or a snow session. This course will attempt to find snow in local vicinities in the Okanagan Valley, conditions permitting. The goal of this program is to give you the skills and knowledge to
successfully facilitate an improvised rescue with nothing more than
what a mountaineer or ski tourer would regularly carry with them in
glaciated terrain. Price: $145 for 1 Day plus gst Minimum Enrollment Required: 2 persons Maximum Enrollment: 6 2006 Dates: April 1-2; May 27-28; December 9-10 |
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