Youth activity: Mountaineers Adventure Club
Seattle MAC Backcountry Ski Trip - Mountaineers Seattle Program Center
Advanced backcountry skiing in the wilderness that involves using climbing skins to go uphill and then skiing down! This trip has prerequisites. See leaders notes for details. Location will be determined week of.
Contacts
- Tue, Dec 30, 2025
- Seattle Youth Outreach Committee
- Youth
- Adults
- Easy
- FULL, 1 on waitlist (4 capacity)
- FULL (2 capacity)
- Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
- Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
- iCal Google
Trip sheet coming soon!
This is an advanced trip. Please read the requirements carefully before signing up!
Pre-Trip Meeting is Tuesday December 23rd at 6:30 PM: https://meet.google.com/tsu-eotr-pzr
Students will either need to have their own alpine touring kit or rent one. Rentals are typically available from Pro Ski & Mountain Sports or Evo. Staff will not be able to assist with rentals and acquiring the gear is the responsibility of participants. MAC has a single transceiver and probe, along with a few shovels, available on first come first served basis.
Prerequisites:
At least 2 years of in-bounds skiing experience and ability to ski black diamond runs (not necessarily in good style) in any conditions. You must be able to get down the hill and "survival ski".
Completion of an AIARE L1 course OR completion of the NIKO course / NIKO badge. The NIKO course is typically offered by NWAC and hosted by MAC/The Mountaineers each winter and has a limited number of spaces and is offered as an adjunct to MAC for an additional fee.
We will figure out location week of - we need to better know the snow conditions before we choose.