GUIDED BACKCOUNTRY SKIING

Our Basic Steep Ski Skills camp is a two-day skills-focused weekend that aims to give you the tools needed to push your backcountry skiing into steeper terrain while traveling efficiently and with finesse. We will explore what gear should be added to your arsenal as a skier looking to push into steeper more committing terrain and the proper techniques to use the added equipment safely and effectively. Our guides will share the knowledge they have learned skiing in the mountain ranges of the world to teach you new skills and improve on any already existing foundation of skills that you may have.

• Who’s it for? Backcountry skiers with significant touring experience and some steep skiing experience who are hoping to push their skills to the next level and prepare for bigger mountain objectives
• How do we go? Participants may take this course on backcountry skis/splitboards only
• Where do we go? We will utilize terrain on or around Mount Washington and the northern Presidential Range
• Why go with AMG? Acadia Mountain Guides is Maine’s only full-service climbing school, owned and operated by IFMGA mountain guide Jon Tierney. AMG has been teaching and guiding throughout the world for over 20 years with a passion for creating well-prepared alumni of courses so that they can go out and travel with confidence in the mountains. AMG is an AMGA-accredited climbing school.
• Pre-requisites:
  • Fitness, clothing, and equipment to ski or hike up to 5 miles round trip with a 10-pound pack.
  • Basic backcountry skiing skills and experience touring/traveling in relatively steep terrain

Have a group? Are you part of a college organization, ski club, etc.? We are happy to schedule a customized course for organizations, small groups, and individuals through New England, Eastern Canada. Of course, if you would like to schedule a course in Iceland or Colorado, we would be very pleased to work with you.

Tuition: $275.00