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TAC MAC Ski/Splitboard Touring Skills

Youth activity: Mountaineers Adventure Club - Tacoma

TAC MAC Ski/Splitboard Touring Skills - Youth Trip

Skill building for backcountry skiing

Contacts

Sarah Holt
Sarah Holt
Primary Leader
  • Sun, Mar 16, 2025
  • Tacoma Youth Programs
  • Youth, Backcountry Skiing
  • Youth
  • Challenging

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

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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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