Mountaineering Courses
Please Note:
Below is a list of all our mountaineering focused courses. These preset date courses are offered at a discounted price. If you can’t take the course when it is offered, we can cover any of the material in any one of the courses on different days as a custom outing. Please click here for our custom guiding rates.
Mountaineering Courses
Basic Expeditionary Skills
This course teaches you how to stay comfortable and operate efficiently in winter conditions. You’ll spend an evening learning how to prepare for a trip and another two days and one night hiking, snowshoeing and camping in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Intro Mountaineering
This weekend course will teach you the skills needed to climb a peak. The first day you’ll learn the basics of alpine movement, and the second day you’ll climb a route appropriate to your skills in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Alaska Mountaineering Seminar
Mountaineering and expedition skills training with ascent of Mt. Barrill (7,650’) and possible ascents of Explorer’s Peak (8,540’), Mt. Dickey (9,545’) or The Incisor (7,300’)
Mountaineering Seminar
This course is the seven-day immersion version of Intro Mountaineering. It turns novices into solid intermediate mountaineers. You learn technical systems and skills and become aware of alpine hazards and risk management strategies.
Mountain Navigation
Knowing where you are is the most basic mountaineering skill of all. Three-quarters of all rescue operations do not involve injuries, just locating lost hikers. This one-day orienteering course will teach you how to navigate using a map, compass, altimeter, and GPS.
Crevasse Rescue
This one-day course prepares you for traveling on glaciated terrain. You’ll learn about glacial gear, team and rope strategies, and the skills needed to rescue yourself and your partner(s) from a crevasse.
Alpine Leading Seminar
This 7-day course prepares you to be an alpine lead climber through extensive review and practice of primary mountaineering skills. You’ll learn how to weigh alpine hazards, probabilities and consequences against your goals, how to evaluate this data and make sound decisions.
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