Alpine Skills International - Mountain Climbing Guides

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Client/Guide Ratio: 4:1

Includes:
All guide's auxillary and group climbing gear, all group camping gear: tents, stove, fuel, cook kit and 1 mountain dinner.

Does not include:
$20 USFS Summit Fee.

Mt. Shasta, Glacial Ice Seminar 4 Day

Are you aspiring to visit the Canadian Rockies, Andes, Denali, Mt. Blanc, or other glacial ranges? The Shasta Glacial Ice Seminar teaches all the important techniques of glacier travel and the contemporary tricks of "big mountain" climbing.

On the Hotlum or the Whitney Glaciers of Mt. Shasta we practice both French and front point ice climbing techniques. We cover crevasse rescue and fixed-rope climbing and explore innovative systems of climbing in alpine style. This four-day seminar culminates in an ascent of the mountain by an aesthetic north-side route.

Cost: $725

Dates:

June 2-5, 2008   (Mon-Th)
July 14-17, 2008   (Mon-Th)
July 28-31, 2008   (Mon-Th)
Sept 8-11, 2008   (Mon-Th)

Itinerary
Day 1 - Meet at the Fifth Season parking lot (behind the store) at 8:00am. We will conduct orientation, gear check, group gear distribution (about 5 lbs. per person), packing technique, review emergency plan and shuttle to Northgate Trailhead on the more remote north side of the mountain.

We will then pay the USFS Summit Fee in the drop box and begin the approach hike to the Hotlum or Whitney Glacier, conditions dependent (5-7 hrs.). General mountain travel and pacing skills along the way. Campsite selection and construction.

Day 2 - Ice axe, crampons, snow & ice climbing skills with emphasis on self belay and pied a plat French crampon technique. Harness and rope for braced and anchored belays, hazard recognition, assessment and management.

Day 3 - Roped glacier travel skills, crevasse rescue skills and steep serac ice climbing with front point technique and piolet traction. Safety planning and route planning for summit ascent.

Day 4 - Very early pre-dawn start with headlamps for a summit ascent and back to camp. Break camp and hike out back to the trailhead. Traditional course closing.

Mt. Shasta is a Gateway Mountain!
It opens the doors for many to great climbing adventure that becomes life sport. It is where many of the ASI Guides began their careers as alpinists.

When you climb Shasta with ASI, you climb with the most experienced mountain guides with the highest professional certifications and you learn to climb in progressive alpine style...the same approach we have successfully used on big alpine routes and high altitude peaks including the summit of Mt. Everest!

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