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Alpine Skills Weekends

Start alpine climbing with a solid foundation! Alpine climbing is fun, but it can be a bit overwhelming to get started.

Alpine Skills Weekends

Start alpine climbing with a solid foundation! Alpine climbing is fun, but it can be a bit overwhelming to get started.

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Summer alpine climbing Gear/Trad Mountain Skills Alberta Nordegg David Thompson Country Lake Abraham canmore lake louise banff Jasper

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AT A GLANCE

Experience: Rock Safe or equivalent
Duration: 2 days
Location: Nordegg, & Lake Abraham, & Jasper, & Lake Louise, & Banff Alberta
Departure: 8 am
Offered: Select Weekends
Ages: 18  & up
Fitness Level: Reasonable fitness (ability to climb a ladder, go for a short run or hike)
Group Size: 3-6

Cost Single: $497
All prices in Canadian Dollars

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ADVENTURE DETAILS

Start alpine climbing with a solid foundation! Alpine climbing is fun, but it can be a bit overwhelming at times.  Begin learning to read terrain, manage multiple overlapping risk factors,  move in snow and understand glacier travel.

Take your team’s safety seriously by forming smooth skills so that you can achieve success.

  • Extensive gear list required 
  • Rental gear is available
  • Please arrive with lunch, water, a full tank of gas, and be ready to adventure

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If you don’t see what you you need, or a date doesn’t work, please connect with us. The nature of being an ACMG climbing guide in the Alberta Rockies is that we do a lot of custom trips for guests.

We want to see every one of our guests experience transformational adventure out in our backyard, whether it be Nordegg, Lake Abraham, Banff, Canmore, Jasper or even Skaha and the Bugaboos.

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