Youth activity: Mountaineers Adventure Club - Tacoma
TAC MAC Ski/Splitboard Touring Skills - Roaring Ridge (Snoqualmie)
Skill building for backcountry skiing
Contacts
Sarah Holt
Primary Leader
- Sun, Mar 16, 2025
- Tacoma Youth Programs
- Youth, Backcountry Skiing
- Youth
- M1 Intremediate Ski
- Challenging
- Mileage: 8.0 mi
- Elevation Gain: 2,500 ft
- 3 (5 capacity)
- 1 (3 capacity)
- Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
- Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
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We will practice skills for ski touring, including:
- Efficient skinning movements
- Track setting
- Kick turns
- Transitions
- Avalanche safety
- Group management and decision-making in a bc ski setting
TBD
Route/Place
Roaring Ridge (Snoqualmie)
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Green Trails Snoqualmie Pass Gateway No. 207S
Green Trails Snoqualmie Pass No. 207
USGS Snoqualmie Pass - See full route/place details.
Roster
Required Equipment
Required Equipment
Participants must source their own backcountry set up. The Mountaineers does not have any available for loan.
- Skis with a touring binding (frame binding, tech binding, or shifts are all acceptable) or splitboard
- Ski touring boots with a walk mode, or snowboard boots if splitboarding
- Ski helmet
- Goggles
- Skins
- Poles
Avalanche safety equipment (The Mountaineers may be able to source these for you)
- Avalanche beacon
- Probe
- Snow shovel
Other:
- Appropriate clothing for snow travel
- 10 essentials
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