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Technical steep ice/snow focused; the skills/concepts are applicable to almost all of your alpine climbing from here on. The field trip will cover the fundamentals of traveling on hard, steep snow slopes, placing anchors in hard snow, crampon technique and alpine ice climbing techniques.
Review video belows and ones from lecture 1.
Skills include:
Swinging leads on multi-pitch snow/ice slopes
6:1 crevasse rescue technique test
Descend and ascend out of crevasse
Traversing steep ice
Building ice anchor systems
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