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This course is the close cousin of our 17-and-over Backcountry Skiing course. The slightly shorter 12-day format allows for weekend travel for those who have limited time to be away from family or work.
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Avalanche hazard assessment is just one of the skills you'll have in your backcountry toolbox after this course.
Photo: Pascal Beauvais |
The course begins with the same great ski instruction at Grand Targhee Resort, and the first two backcountry nights are spent in a yurt—a semi-permanent soft-walled structure complete with a wood stove and an outhouse!
This allows participants to ease into winter and gain quick access to untracked powder skiing. After such relative luxury, the course moves further into the backcountry to build snow shelters.
From these mounds of cozy insulation you will continue to hone your avalanche skills and seek fresh powder.
Backcountry Skiing
23 and
Over
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| Duration: |
12 days |
| Age: |
23 and Older (Average age: 35) |
| Tuition: |
$2,090 |
| Dates: |
December 29, 2009-January 9, 2010
March 1-12, 2010 |
College Credit:
(Optional) |
2
Semester Credit Hours
2 Hours Skills Practicum |
| Course start/end: |
Driggs, Idaho |
| Equipment Deposit: |
$250 |
| Fly in/out: |
Idaho Falls, Idaho |
| Downloads: |
Course Description
(pdf)
Equipment List
(pdf) |
| Note: Some
of your time for the 23 and over course will be spent
in a yurt - a manmade shelter complete with a wood
stove for quick access to untracked skiing. |
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Meet NOLS Skiing alumnus, Archie
Clemins -- For 34 years, Admiral Archie Clemins has been giving
orders and instruction, and watching some of the U.S. Navy's finest
training others. But as a student on a NOLS winter skiing
course in 1999, Clemins witnessed the teaching of "two
of the finest instructors I've ever seen."
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