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How's your Glacier Travel Skills with Skis/Board?
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For those that have not attended the course as a student, this is a rare opportunity to sharpen, or develop from scratch, your glacier travel and crevasse rescue skills. It is the only class I know of where these skills are taught to be utilized while on skis and snowboards. And for 100 stones for 10 + hours of indoor workshops and a two day field trip where you actually get to go down into a real crevasse on Rainier with all your ski/snowboard gear and pack on, I believe it's a real bargain. More info on the course is at www.mountaineers.org/skiing/ (click on "Glacier Travel")
You have to be a member of the Mountaineers to attend the class. If not already a member you can sign up at www.mountaineers.org/ . Graduates are encouraged to return each year (at no cost) to help instruct. This helps keep the cost down for first time students and give the instructors a means to continue improving their skills, and the course; a win-win situation for us all.<br><br>The course starts March 29th and enrollment is limited to 25 students. Be advised, this course always sells out and happens only one time each season. I'm posting this notice because I would prefer it if ALL our TAY family were at least grads of this course, and preferably instructors. Regisrtation is open NOW. I'd sugest you take care of this right away, if you care to join us, and become a safer GT partner.<br><br>Let us know if you sign up so we can be looking for you in the class.<br>Rock on
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Jeff, I imagine the answer is no but I'm going to ask anyway: Would you still join the Mounties and then pay the $100 enrollment fee just to attend the field trip? <br>Even if you would there's a few other challenges to deal with, not the least of which is that of convincing the people you rope up with to go out on the glacier that you would, in fact, have the skills to rescue them as effectively as the other folks in the class who attended all the workshops.<br>With that and the other challenges I've yet to mention, I'd offer that you'd be better off leaving work an hour or two early once a week and doing the 6 hour RT commute from Portland 4 times. Not any worse than working two jobs one day a week. Some folks do it all week long. <br>With what you learned you could pioneer the same program at the Mazamas so no one else would have to rack up equivalent torture points.<br>Rock onI imagine the answer is no but I'm going to ask anyway: Could I join the field practice on the Nisqually without attending the mid-week workshops?
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<br><br>Jeff - thanks for your interest. The answer is no. The course isn't set up to support "at home learning" for the workshops. We use the workshops to assess if the students understand the techniques well enough to be safe on the glacier.I imagine the answer is no but I'm going to ask anyway: Could I join the field practice on the Nisqually without attending the mid-week workshops? <br>
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<br>That is perfectly understandable. Thanks for entertaining the question.Jeff - thanks for your interest. The answer is no.
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