Risk management on advanced glacier trips

Leaders
Caroline Kotlowski, Klaus Bonazza
WIMP
James Turitto
Trip date
Friday, March 30th, 2018
Difficulty rating
very advanced
Prerequisites
MITOC leaders and MITOCers planning glacier trips this year!!

Overnight Sat 3/31 + Sun 4/1

!! Changed program: Course held at Frankenstein Cliff (instead of Mt Washington) and no skiing !!

This is a compact advanced course on crevasses in preparation for all fashions of mountaineering on glaciers: hiking up glacier mountains, backcountry skiing on glaciers and getting to alpine big walls on a glacier.

Caroline, Klaus and James will go over the basics rather quickly and spend time with risk minimizing strategies in special situations. What if the conditions are bad and dangerous but you have to go (to get the hell down of that mountain)? In such cases you may be able to take advantage of some additional equipment you have for your climbing or skiing...

Content of lecture and course: rescue and self-rescue from crevasses, clever route finding to minimize risk in a creviced section, have to self-rescue but an important piece of equipment is lost in the crevasse? How to manage the transition from the glacier approach to a rock or ice climbing through the mountain cleft, building anchors in the snow, discuss decisions about when to use a rope (e.g. with ski), particular challenges in ski alpinism on glaciers.

I will hold a lecture about all these things.
Pre-trip meeting and lecture will be held on Thursday March 29th.


Signup

Algorithm
first-come, first-serve
Maximum participants
9
Signups opened at
Feb. 16, 2018, 3:41 p.m.
Signups closed at
March 25, 2018, 11 p.m.
Notes

Have you ever been on a glacier, where? Did you have a basic crevasse rescue coarse? Do you have concrete plans for a glacier trip were you will use this skills?

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