Seminar
Crevasse Self-Extraction Clinic - Backcountry Skiers and Splitboarders - Mountaineers Seattle Program Center
Skiing on glaciers? Come learn or brush up on techniques that can help you pull yourself out of a crevasse.
Contacts
- Tue, May 13, 2025
- Seattle Backcountry Skiing Committee
- Backcountry Skiing
- Adults
- Easy
- FULL, 14 on waitlist (10 capacity)
- 2 (4 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
We'll be focused on the self extraction aspect of a crevasse rescue and everyone will have a chance to practice prusiking with their ski/splitboard gear on which has some important nuances compared with climbing that you will want to be prepared for in advance of any ski mountaineering trips this season.
The evening will start with intros and a demo of the self extraction process. Participants will all get 2-3 reps of hanging from the rope, offloading ski gear, and then prusiking up the rope. Instructors will use MMOs for ground anchor tie-offs and will lower everyone so we don't have to waste time/energy down prusiking.
Feel free to contact me if you'd like to help as an instructor but don't have the requisite badge.
Goodman C, 6:00 PM.
Required Equipment
- Boots, skis/snowboard, poles
- Harness
- Glacier rescue gear including harness/foot prusiks
- Backpack capable of carrying skis/splitboard
- Ice axe
- As many hero loops as you have!
- A couple of double and single runners
- Helmet (we'll be off the ground!)