The Arizona Mountaineer - Arizona Mountaineering Club

Glacier Travel, Snow Skills, Crevasse Rescue Seminar10. Crevasse extraction, building the C+Z haul system and the standard three member teamrescue scenario, hauling weight and stressing anchors.11. Avalanche Awareness: importance of the critical angle, slope angle identification, cluesto snow loading, womphing, layer formation and slab avalanche ingredients, trigger events12. Basic Avalanche beacon usage – Only a fool gets trapped in an avalanche beacon or nobeacon - function, key features and characteristics, placement on the body, what it can andcan’t do.13. Avalanche victim/body recover: locating a buried beacon, timely searches, organizedrescue effort, search patterns, importance of terrain survey and visual clues, scene safety, fineprobing techniques, digging techniques14. Winter camping: site selection, mostly experience life living on the snow and elements15. Team resource and camp management: fuel planning, team management, securing wintercamp for wind and snow fall.16. Snow shelters, trenches, wind breaks, block walls and snow cavesA partial list of required gear includes the following items:Snow shoesWaterproof and breathable shell, pants and parka,Mountaineering boots (must be instructor approved)Crampons with front points, must be capable of fitting your bootIce axeClimbing harness0F or warmer sleeping bagInsulated sleeping padTent suitable for use on snowLayering system suitable for temperatures ranging from 0F to 50F and high winds and snowWater proof and insulated glovesCamp stoveWater bottle insulators or thermosHead lampKarabiners, say eight to ten and at least two large D karabiners you can manipulate with agloved handA few sewn runnersSet of prussicsSunglasses or glacier glassesPack large enough to carry equipment for the weekendamcaz.org 10