Snow Travel Skills

Tutorial Videos

• Packing
• Packing your bag for Winter Mountaineering
• Andy's Clothing System
• The Layering Process
• Winter Backpacking Gear List for 15 Degrees
• Choosing winter boots
• Choosing a set of crampons
• Choosing an ice axe
• Choosing a winter climbing rope
• How to Put on a Gaiter
• REI Alpine Gaitors
• Ice Axe
• Self Belay
• Self Arrest
• Self Arrest Head First Stomach
• Self Arrest Head First on Back
• Self Belay after Self Arrest
• Real Self Arrest - Mount Rainier
• Snow Walk
• How to Climb a Mountain
• Crampons
• use crampons
• How to fit and walk in crampons
• Breath
• Pressure Breathing
• Step
• Sidestep downhill
• Duck Step
• French Step
• Plunge Step
• Cut Steps
• Rest Step
• The Secret of walking
• Snowshoes
• Snowshoe Techniques
• Snowshoeing 101
• Survival Tip: How to Build Snowshoes
• Easy Survival Snowshoes
• Rope
• How to Coil Your Rope
• Magic WOW coiling method
• Backpack coiling
• Roping Up For Glaciers
• Tying-In to the End of a Glacier Climbing Rope
• Tying-In to the Middle of a Glacier Climbing Rope
• Swiss Seat
• Figure-8 Knot
• Square Knot
• Prusik Knot
• One Handed Bowline
• 3:1 Pulley System
• Tacoma Mountaineers Z-Pulley
• Rescue
• SMC Seminar: Glacier Climbing and Crevasse Rescue
• Glacier Crevasse Rescue Demo
• Crevasse Rescue Demo 2
• Inside a crevasse on Mt. Rainier's Nisqually Glacier
• Prusik climb out of a Crevasse
• Tree Well Rescue
• Avalanche Companion Rescue
• Backcountry Guides: Transceiver, Shovel and Probe
• How to dig out and Avalanche Burial
• Protection
• Cutting a stance in snow
• Deadman Anchor
• Snow Bollard
• Snow Belay
• Anchor Protection
• Grade I-II Climbs
• Alpine Anchors

• Skills: walking and climbing in winter series
• Knot of the Week series
• AIARE Avalanche Awareness Lectures
• Winter Climbing - Hints and tips

Articles & Posts

• 2014 Mountain Rainier Trip
• 2015 Mountain Rainier Trip