Tacoma Snowshoeing Committee

 Call it snowshoeing, winter hiking, or winter travel, The Mountaineers refuses to leave you inside when it gets cold outside.

Get outside while it's cold, beautiful and there are no crowd's!     
Register now for Basic Snowshoeing, Backcountry Snowshoeing and Winter Camping.

Contact the committee: snowshoeing.tacoma@gmail.com

Current Tacoma Snowshoeing Courses: Courses

Current Tacoma Snowshoeing Trips: Trips

Family Discount Information: Info

Basic Snowshoeing

This course provides students with a solid foundation in snowshoeing. Topics covered are snowshoe techniques and travel, winter clothing, gear selection and conditioning for snowshoeing. We’ll have recommendations for where to go, what to rent and what to buy.

Successful completion will allow the student to participate in Easy and Easy+ snowshoe outings. It will also allow an interested student to continue on to the next level course; Intermediate (aka Backcountry) Snowshoe.

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Intermediate SnowshoeING

The Intermediate (aka Backcountry) Snowshoe course is designed for adventurers who want to gain the skills and experience to handle more challenging snowshoe routes and terrain than those offered in Easy or Easy+ trips.

Moderate and Strenuous trips are, in many cases, non-technical mountain-climbing routes with mountain peaks for destinations.

The course will cover information and skills needed to survive in backcountry terrain, including introductory avalanche awareness,  emergency shelters, self-belay and self-arrest skills.

Winter Camping

Learn to make a comfortable camp in the snow. This course will cover both winter tent camping and non-emergency winter shelters (primarily snow caves, snow trenches and other options).

The course consists of one lecture and one all-weekend field trip, which includes building a snow cave!

There are no prerequisites for this course.
**Snowshoes are required for the field trip.