ANOTHER course date has been added due to popular demand.*The wait list from the previous courses will be given registration priority*.
Course Content: A one-day course aimed at consolidating and refining steep ice movement skills so both leaders and followers can climb long vertical pitches of sustained ice efficiently, and more important, safely. Topics to be addressed include leashless technique, rest stances, strategies for not getting pumped, hooking, delicate movement (required for fragile features) and skinny pillars.
Prerequisite: Participants should have some ice climbing experience, whether it be winter waterfall ice or summer alpine ice. The content is suitable for both novice ice climbers who want to move into steeper terrain as well as more experienced ice climbers who still find they get pumped on WI5. Participants must be able to offer a safe top-rope belay.
Date(s): Jan. 23
Costs: $100 per person (1:6 ratio) plus 5% GST (total = $105)
Required Items to Bring:
Equipment: Participants should have their own harness, helmet, belay device, boots and crampons (dual-points are best). I can supply extra leashless ice tools to try.
Recommended Items to Bring:
Warm belay jacket,extra pair of gloves,thermos with hot drinks,lunch.
Cancellation/Partial Attendance: Please review our participant responsibility guidelines!
*Registration details-Please read*
Participants will be selected based on prerequesites/past experience.Payment must be recieved within 2 weeks of registering.Withdrawal with refund before January 9 ONLY if qualified participant from wait list is available.No date changes,withdrawals or refunds after January 16.
*Cancellation Policy*: If a participant is unable to attend a paid course or trip, there will be no refund unless the participant finds a suitable replacement that is acceptable to the trip coordinator. Acceptable waiting list candidates will have priority. It will then be the participant's responsibility to recover funds from the replacement. If the coordinator cancels an event, participants get a refund (less any non-recoverable costs). Note that ACC National does not refund hut fees due to weather, delay, closures, or any other reasons. The Calgary Section of the ACC is a not for profit club and we only charge attendees what it costs us to provide courses or trips.
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Registration for this event closed on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 11:55 AM.