Alpine Empowerment is a capstone-style program designed for participants who already have foundational mountaineering, rock, and glacier-travel skills and are ready to apply them in real alpine environments. The course blends refresher training with coached leadership, giving participants the opportunity to take the lead on genuine alpine objectives while receiving targeted guidance from instructors.
Objectives:
Objective 1: Alpine Skills Refresher
Simple rescue skills
Bailing
Short roping review
Objective 2: Alpine Anchors
Utilizing natural anchors
Utilizing traditional anchors
Objective 3: Participant Led Objectives
Coached snow/ice alpine objective
Example: Andromache N.Glacier or similar
Coached rock alpine objective
Example: Niblock/Whyte from col, Baldy W.Ridge, Loder/Doorjamb
Day One Lesson Plan:
Alpine skills refresher
Cover and summarize skills from previous courses
Introduce traditional anchors in the short roping/mountaineering environment
Day Two Lesson Plan:
Snow/ice objective
Day Three Lesson Plan:
Rock objective
3 days of guided instruction is included, food and accommodation are not included.
Pre-requisites: Alpine Skills Weekend, Scrambling Skills & Mountaineering and Trad Leader or climbing skills resume
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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Waiver and Membership Requirement
Participation in this activity is subject to you having a current membership and a current signed
ACC Release of Liability, Waiver of Claims, Assumption of Risks Agreement (the “Waiver”), which is signed in conjunction with purchasing/renewing your membership.
A separate Waiver is not required. Your membership Waiver in place at the time of the activity will apply to your participation in this activity. You can review your completed waiver by logging onto your profile at alpineclubofcanada.ca. If your
membership renews prior to the activity taking place, you will be required to agree to a new Waiver upon renewal, this new Waiver will apply to your participation in this activity. By proceeding with the booking, you agree to the foregoing waiver terms. Bookings
without a current Waiver at the time of the activity will be cancelled.
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