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. A series of drills and exercises will be worked through to dial in movement skills and resting strategies.
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 steep ice. Participants must be able to offer a safe top-rope belay.
Required Items to Bring:
Equipment: Participants should have their own
harness,
helmet, belay device, boots, crampons and ice
tools.
Recommended Items to Bring:
Other obvious items to bring are warm clothes
and a down jacket considering you will be
sitting around listening to lecturing. Bring
your own food for lunch and snacks and a
warm/hot drink. It might not be a bad idea to
bring a camera to take photos to assist you in
the future looking back at the various things
you learned over the course of the day.
How to Get There:
Event Directions:
Notes:
It is a first paid - first on the course registration. The course fee is
$162.50which includes taxes.
** Important - there are two steps to getting on the course - 1. use the paypal button to pay for the course. 2. Go to the bottom of the Event Page and register for the course. This will put you on the waiting list. Once your payment is confirmed you will be moved to the attending list. You must be a member of the Calgary ACC Section in order to register. You can attend as a guest of a member also taking the course. They can register and then add you as a guest. If the course is full you can still register and sit on the waitlist incase a spot opens up. Do not pay until told a spot has opened up.
Please complete the following as soon as possible and we will move
you to the attending list.
Please send a PayPal payment confirmation email to the trip
coordinators
You do not need a PayPal account and can pay by credit card.
Once you have made your payment, please take a screen shot and send to the Trip Coordinator confirming your payment.
Once this is confirmed the co-ordinator will move you to
the attending list.
Guide Bio: Sean Isaac is an ACMG Alpine Guide specializing in ice and mixed instruction. He has been ice climbing for 30 years and guiding for the past 18. He is author of the ACC “Ice Climbing Leaders Field Handbook” as well as the forthcoming second edition of “How to Ice Climb” by Falcon. He has also written the how-to book “Mixed Climbing” and the guidebook “Mixed Climbs in the Canadian Rockies”.
Payment Options:
Member $162.50 CAD
Cancellation Policy as of March 2017:
If a participant is unable to attend a course
or paid trip, there will be no refund unless
the participant finds a suitable replacement
that is acceptable to the trip coordinator. It
will then be the participant's responsibility
to recover funds from the replacement. If the
coordinator cancels a trip, participants get a
refund (less any non-recoverable costs).
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.
Trip Feedback If you have any feedback, positive or negative, concerning this trip or any other, we want to hear from you! You can send any feedback you may have to the Section Chair.
Registration for this event closed on Monday, November 29, 2021 at 11:59 PM.
