Name: Whistler Backcountry - Beginner Friendly |
Starts: Sat Nov 28, 2015 |
Meetup: Taylor Way church at 6:00 a.m. |
Return: Sat Nov 28, 2015 |
Registration opens: Wed Nov 04, 2015 |
Event category: Backcountry Skiing |
Difficulty grade: B2 [?] |
For members only: Yes |
Screening used: Yes |
Max participants: 6 |
Organizer: Mike Hamata ![]() |
Profile info: |
1. Can you drive?
2. Please describe your backcountry skiing experience.
3. What is the highest level avalanche training you have taken and when did you take it?
You must login in order to sign up online for one of the BCMC Trips. If you don't have a BCMC membership account then please obtain one. If you'd prefer to learn more before joining then please join as a 30-day Guest member. Some trips are BCMC members only.
See the Baldwin Guide (musical bumps etc.) for route info. We will take the Whistler lifts, and you'll have to pay the lift fee if you don't have a WB pass.
This is not a course, and all participants must have some previous ski touring experience as well as avalanche training.
ALL participants MUST have the following equipment:
Beacon, Probe & Shovel
AST-1 or higher training
AT/telemark ski or splitboard setup (including skins)
Headlamp
Appropriate clothing for being out in the elements all day
Enough food and water to remain on the move for most of the day
(trip organizer will carry the following items: first aid kit, GPS/Compass/Map)
This will involve the potential for some objective dangers. Trip will only "go" with a decent weather forecast (POP of 30% or less).
Please consider NOT seeking to join this trip unless you have conducted your own research into the route, and compared that with your own experience, fitness level and skill.
Please update your BCMC Account Profile with your emergency contact information. To do that you have to login on the website, click the "My account" button at top right, then click on "edit profile information", then select the "private information" tab and enter your emergency contact information -- this info will stay in your profile and is made available to a trip organizer automatically -- it saves time at the meeting point.
N.B. If you have previously "bailed" less than a day before the start of, or been a "no show" for, one of the trip organizer's previous trips, you need not apply to join this one - you will not get a response.