Sunrise Lodge BC Ski Week
Full days of ski touring with lunch eaten in the field. Tours will generally be out all day, covering roughly 3,000-5,000' vertical each day.
Up early, ski all day, then enjoy dinner and lodge life!
- Expert resort riding skills including steep and consequential off piste terrain in challenging snow conditions.
- Strong Fitness - Able to spend a long, active day outside, moving uphill at 1,000’ per hour for durations of 1-1.5 hours between breaks. Participants should be able to hike 8-10 miles, climbing 2,500 - 3,500 vertical feet throughout the course of the day. People with strong fitness typically have a strenuous workout 3-4 days a week.
- Intermediate ski touring experience including efficient gear management, skinning, transition technique, with 20+ days of backcountry experience.
- IFMGA Trained Guide
- Comfortable beds, bathrooms, drying rooms and a communal cooking and gathering area
- Deluxe dinners and breakfasts are provided and prepared
- Group Safety Gear: Guide will be equipped with snow science tools and a first aid kit
- Leave No Trace Materials: wag bag
Know Before you go
Blackbird Mountain Guides offers both scheduled group programs and private programs.
Private programs are simply above and beyond what Blackbird Mountain Guides currently has scheduled. Scheduled courses are not always less expensive. Before booking a trip with Blackbird Mountain Guides, clients are encouraged to review the differences between these types of programs, and to decide what works best for them.
SCHEDULED PROGRAMS
Scheduled Programs have fixed dates, itineraries, objectives, curriculum, and costs. They typically appeal to solo individuals or small groups or who are looking to share the cost of their program with a larger group. Correspondingly, scheduled programs are less expensive for smaller groups (1-2), and they provide the opportunity to meet others with similar interests. If you have a large group (3+), Scheduled programs will often be more expensive. They can fill up quickly, and scheduling flexibility is obviously limited.
Scheduled programs will have advertised dates. All scheduled programs can be run as private programs with private dates/rates as well.
PRIVATE PROGRAMS
Private programs have scheduling freedom. They typically appeal to those who would like some flexibility in planning their own trip or course. In this regard, Itineraries and objectives can be tailored to suit current conditions as well as client goals. Private programs are normally less expensive for larger groups (3+). If you have a small group (1-2) private programs will be more expensive.
Full days of ski touring with lunch eaten in the field. Tours will generally be out all day, covering roughly 3,000-5,000' vertical each day.
Up early, ski all day, then enjoy dinner and lodge life!
- Expert resort riding skills including steep and consequential off piste terrain in challenging snow conditions.
- Strong Fitness - Able to spend a long, active day outside, moving uphill at 1,000’ per hour for durations of 1-1.5 hours between breaks. Participants should be able to hike 8-10 miles, climbing 2,500 - 3,500 vertical feet throughout the course of the day. People with strong fitness typically have a strenuous workout 3-4 days a week.
- Intermediate ski touring experience including efficient gear management, skinning, transition technique, with 20+ days of backcountry experience.
- IFMGA Trained Guide
- Comfortable beds, bathrooms, drying rooms and a communal cooking and gathering area
- Deluxe dinners and breakfasts are provided and prepared
- Group Safety Gear: Guide will be equipped with snow science tools and a first aid kit
- Leave No Trace Materials: wag bag
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Just took the "lift-assisted" Avalanche Rescue course, and it was a fantastic opportunity to act out more realistic rescue scenarios. It was a great refresher and learning experience. Our instructor Evan was knowledgeable and a lot of fun. Highly recommended!
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Completed AIARE 1 w/ Blackbird. Instructors were very knowledgeable, experienced, patient, attentive, and down-to-earth in relating to clients across a wide spectrum of ability. Highly recommended. Great group of people!
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