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Alaska Women’s Big Mountain Camp
The love, commitment, and skill women are bringing to skiing and snowboarding has
taken our sport to a whole new level. This fact, combined with expressed demand
from our visiting friends- has driven us to create the Alaska Women’s Big Mountain
Camp.
Join us here at the North Shore of Big Mountain skiing and snowboarding for a week
of deep powder and pristine terrain from April 23-30, 2011. The H2O Guide Team
works together with you and other women ready to bring their skiing and riding to
the next level. This camp will increase confidence, skills, education all while building
friendships for future backcountry travel and endeavors.
The Alaska Women’s Big Mountain Camp will use the vertical gain educational
approach: the more vertical you ski, the better your education! You will benefit not
only from the skills of professional guides but also from the 100 years combined
experience that H2O Guide Team brings to the table.
A day in your life as a Big Mountain Camp participant will begin with a team meeting
over breakfast going over the day’s itinerary. Everything will be done as a group,
emphasizing the teamwork that big mountain travel demands. Once the gear has
been checked, the helicopter blades will start turning, and you will load up for the
day’s first summit. Once you land on your first peak, the sprawling Chugach Range
will open your eyes, but there is still work to do; your guides will instruct you on
summit protocol, route selection, snow pack assessment, digging snow pits, and
evaluating snow stability and proper slope cutting techniques, then use this
information to form a game plan for the descent.
This is what you have been waiting for, to drop in and spoil yourself with 3,000-
5,000 vertical feet of the best skiing and snowboarding in the world. At the bottom
the exhilaration and gratification will show in your grin. Then you will wipe the snow
from your goggles, share the excitement with your teammates, take in the scenery,
and prepare for the heli pick up; five more heli drops to go. Five more runs with
which to sharpen your big mountain tools, gain glacier travel skills, and watch and
learn from the technique of the best guides on the planet. We average six runs, and
20,000 vertical feet a day.
Education and fun are the main objectives of this camp. You will learn backcountry
ethics, big mountain descent techniques, group dynamics, mountain terminology,
avalanche transceiver use, snow stability forecasting, slope cutting, route selection,
slough management skills, weather interpretation, glacier travel, ski and snowboard
anchor systems, crevasse rescue, repelling and rope skills. But most importantly,
you’ll gain experience while sharing a great adventure with women who have similar
interests. Although it sounds like a lot, our professional guides know how to
integrate all of these skills into a hands-on, exciting, educational day of skiing and
snowboarding.
Dates: April 23 – 30, 2011
Price:
$6,500 for double occupancy
$6,750 for single occupancy
The love, commitment, and skill women are bringing to skiing and snowboarding has
taken our sport to a whole new level. This fact, combined with expressed demand
from our visiting friends- has driven us to create the Alaska Women’s Big Mountain
Camp.
Join us here at the North Shore of Big Mountain skiing and snowboarding for a week
of deep powder and pristine terrain from April 23-30, 2011. The H2O Guide Team
works together with you and other women ready to bring their skiing and riding to
the next level. This camp will increase confidence, skills, education all while building
friendships for future backcountry travel and endeavors.
The Alaska Women’s Big Mountain Camp will use the vertical gain educational
approach: the more vertical you ski, the better your education! You will benefit not
only from the skills of professional guides but also from the 100 years combined
experience that H2O Guide Team brings to the table.
A day in your life as a Big Mountain Camp participant will begin with a team meeting
over breakfast going over the day’s itinerary. Everything will be done as a group,
emphasizing the teamwork that big mountain travel demands. Once the gear has
been checked, the helicopter blades will start turning, and you will load up for the
day’s first summit. Once you land on your first peak, the sprawling Chugach Range
will open your eyes, but there is still work to do; your guides will instruct you on
summit protocol, route selection, snow pack assessment, digging snow pits, and
evaluating snow stability and proper slope cutting techniques, then use this
information to form a game plan for the descent.
This is what you have been waiting for, to drop in and spoil yourself with 3,000-
5,000 vertical feet of the best skiing and snowboarding in the world. At the bottom
the exhilaration and gratification will show in your grin. Then you will wipe the snow
from your goggles, share the excitement with your teammates, take in the scenery,
and prepare for the heli pick up; five more heli drops to go. Five more runs with
which to sharpen your big mountain tools, gain glacier travel skills, and watch and
learn from the technique of the best guides on the planet. We average six runs, and
20,000 vertical feet a day.
Education and fun are the main objectives of this camp. You will learn backcountry
ethics, big mountain descent techniques, group dynamics, mountain terminology,
avalanche transceiver use, snow stability forecasting, slope cutting, route selection,
slough management skills, weather interpretation, glacier travel, ski and snowboard
anchor systems, crevasse rescue, repelling and rope skills. But most importantly,
you’ll gain experience while sharing a great adventure with women who have similar
interests. Although it sounds like a lot, our professional guides know how to
integrate all of these skills into a hands-on, exciting, educational day of skiing and
snowboarding.
Dates: April 23 – 30, 2011
Price:
$6,500 for double occupancy
$6,750 for single occupancy
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