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Please read the AAC article "Know the ropes: snow climbing" and watch the videos below, it will help you be ready for the class and field sessions.
How to choose and use ice axes and crampons?
How to choose and use ice axes and crampons?
Ice tools selection and use
Ice axe positions
Alpine boots selection
Crampons selection and use
Adjusting crampons
Steep Snow and Ice Climbing Techniques
Steep Snow and Ice Climbing Techniques
Ascending techniques : fundamentals
Ascending techniques : fundamentals
Tech tips for ascending snow
Kicking steps : Duck Foot, Flat Foot & Front Pointing
Duck steps : ascending, descending and variations
Team rope and travel considerations
Team rope and travel considerations
Team rope and travel considerations
How to (and how not to) rack pickets
Snow belay
Snow belay
Quick belay 1 : Seated hip belay
Useful demo of this quick belay technique that can be used to bring the rope team together in a lower angle environment. Alternately one can kick buckets for their heels instead of digging a bench.
* STOP video at 5:35 (not to be used for "lead" belaying).*
Quick belay 2 : Carabine Ice Axe Belay
Useful for belaying in the next person in your rope team in a lower angle environment
Quick belay 3 : Ice Axe boot belay
Better suited for feeding rope out instead of belaying someone towards you. Useful to help protect a descent in a lower angle environment
Going further: more advanced ascending techniques
Going further: more advanced ascending techniques
Steep Snow Technique Grade I-II
Steep Snow Technique Grade I-II
Descending Techniques
Descending Techniques
Self Arrest
Descending on snow
Glissading
Snow and Ice routes on Mt Hood, see their ratings below, do you have any questions about it?
Optional Video:
Optional Video:
Nightmare on Mt Hood video:
Nightmare on Mt Hood video:
Fall incident and self-arrest.
Fall incident and self-arrest.
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