Backcountry Touring Field Trip 1 - Alpental Ski Area

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Field trip #1 - Basic backcountry travel skills Students will demonstrate that they have all necessary gear and means to carry it Practice :

1. Touring movement skills

• 1. Keep your skins cold and moisture free before you tour
• 2. Drag ski, don’t pick it up
• 3. Use risers when needed
• 4. Loosen bootstraps when going up hill
• 5. With loose snow, stomp\compact snow when laying skin track\steep track
• 6. If you’ll need crampons, put them on before you need them

2. Kick turns

• 1. Kick heel
• 2. Shove downhill ski tail under the uphill ski to bring the center of gravity closer to you

3. Transitions

• 1. If the skins are icing up, scrape them across the ski edge
• 2. Stuff skins in jacket to help prevent icing
• 3. Show two different standing transitions