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The Denali Skills Workshop is intensive with focus on glacier travel techniques and crevasse rescue safety systems used during your expedition. The day starts with a climbing gear check and issuing any items you need. Your instructor will insure you have your pack rigged, ice axe leashed, and the necessary hardware for your glacier rig. From there we move across the street to AMS' indoor climbing gym and simulate climbing out of a crevasse using ropes dangling from the ceiling. After fixed line ascension, we spread out on the lawn to review anchors, belaying, and roping up for glacier travel. We rope up and simulate belaying each other out of a perimeter camp and traveling on a glacier in proper formation. Rescue scenarios involving the middle and end person falling into a crevasse will be conducted using 3 and 4 person rope teams. The Denali Skills Workshops are conveniently scheduled to take place the day before each of our Denali Expeditions, custom workshops can be arranged. This workshop is an excellent review for all expedition members and strongly recommended for anyone feeling rusty about glacier travel and crevasse rescue techniques or who have not climbed in the Alaska Range before.
Deposit: $150 (Balance Due: 60 days prior to starting date.)
Cost Includes: AMS instructors, group climbing equipment
You are responsible for: Personal climbing equipment (available for rent), meals
We will meet at AMS' office in downtown Talkeetna at the end of 3rd Street. The class starts at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 6:00 p.m. There will be a break for lunch.
Please bring the following equipment with you to the Denali Skills Workshop. Any AMS equipment you plan to rent or purchase for the expedition will be available for the workshop.