Curious about exploring the terrain just beyond the resort or just want to make the most out of your backcountry adventure come with us to find the best snow and the best terrain for the conditions and your experience level and ability. Depending on your goals this can be a skills day, a way to learn more about your local zone, or just get after it and have some fun..

1:1 $500 per person

2:1 $300 per person

3:1 $200 per person

4:1 $175 per person

Designed to help skiers and riders take it to another with a focus on managing steep terrain with rappels, belayed skiing, and a range of other techniques that provide increased security without the rope.

2-day course

1:1 $950

2:1 $475 per person

3:1 $375 per person

4:1 $375 per person

We partner with Backcountry Adventure Guides to run AIARE Level 1 and Level 2 courses. These courses involve 4-5 hours of online learning, a 2.5 hr evening zoom lecture, and 2 full field days.

The AIARE 2 is for those who have taken an AIARE 1 and Avalanche Rescue and have had at least a year of backcountry travel experience. The AIARE 2 provides backcountry leaders the opportunity to advance their avalanche knowledge and decision making skills.

The AIARE 2 is a three-day/24-hour course that provides backcountry travelers an opportunity to advance their decision-making skills in more complicated situations such as being a leader within a small travel group, traveling in more complicated terrain, and/or developing a travel plan where resources are scarce.

Cost $495

The lodge is situated at 1,920 meters on the east side of the Valkyr Range. It is a spacious 3 stories and can accommodate 12 guests in 6 private rooms with additional bedrooms for staff. The bedrooms are fully outfitted with quality bedding including down duvets. Hilda Hut also features a large entry way/ drying room, shower, 2 toilets, fully outfitted kitchen, large cold pantry with fridges and freezer, internet access, AC power generated by a micro hydro plant, 2 wood stoves and a separate wood-fired sauna hut with a shower room.

Nestled in the Purcell Mountains, Powder Creek Lodge (east of Kaslo) is a comfortable and modern high-country ski lodge situated in a remote and breathtakingly beautiful alpine basin.

With over 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres) of terrain, including five main drainages, the area offers a big variety. From gentle, open, rolling terrain and lightly gladed slopes to steeper slots through lichen-draped evergreens. From easily-accessed sinuous ridgelines leading to craggy peaks, steep and deep chutes, to massive open slopes that drop away gloriously forever – you’ll find it all here.

Cost $3300

The Boulder Hut covers over 15,000 acres of exclusive tenure and almost 60 named runs to play in. Chutes, high alpine bowls, glades and treed powder skiing give you a choice from the best skiing buffet on the planet, the Purcells. The Boulder Hut sits at tree line (2,000m, 6,500’) with Mt. Higgins and Mt Levesque overhead to remind you of the glaciers that carved this landscape.

Fully catered, travel to from Kimberley B.C. not uncluded

Cost $2500

With a 50-degree entrance (which, gigantic walls, and 1600ft long, the Slot couloir is easily one of Washington we often belay)’s most sought-after and iconic day tours.

1:1 $500 per person

2:1 $300 per person

3:1 $200 per person

4:1 $175 per person

Join me for the linkup of two of Washignton’s most famous and most infamous couloirs. We generally start with the SNOT couloir which involves a 50m rappel into a 44-degree couloir. We then circle around and descend the Slot Couloir, which, with its HUGE side walls and 1600ft height, easily makes it among the most classic in the state. We often belay the 50-degree entrance since we have ropes with us.

1:1 $500 per person

2:1 $300 per person

3:1 $200 per person

4:1 $175 per person

With the best fall line skiing of any of the “big” North Cascades traverses the Isolation travels through incredible and remote terrain deep in the heart of North Cascades National Park.

5-days

Cost

1:1 $2750

2:1 $1500

3:1 $1300

4:1 $1100

The Forbidden is a little “shorter” than the typical North Cascade Ski Traverses but still manages to travel through some absolutely incredible terrain while still offering two potential summits depending on the weather and conditions and some of the best fall and most consistent fall line skiing for a traverse of its size.

We also offer an optional “4th” day to allow more skiing, an additional summit ski descent, or for a more “relaxed pace in general.

Cost (3-day)

1:1 $1600

2:1 $850

3:1 $600

4:1 $500

Enjoy one of the most classic mountaineering traverses in the United States on Skis on this 5-day trip.

5-days

Cost

1:1 $2750

2:1 $1500

3:1 $1300

4:1 $1100

Skiing the Watson Traverse on Mt. Baker is a challenging 2-day ski traverse starting from the Heliotrope Ridge Trailhead, ascending the Coleman-Deming route over the summit of Mt. Baker and descending the Park Glacier down to the Baker Ski Area.

2 Days

1:1 $1000

2:1 $525 per person

3:1 $350 per person

A 2-day ski descent of Mt. Baker is easily among our most popular trips. The 2-day ski descent is much more reasonable for most people than a single-day ascent but the nearly 8000ft descent down massive glaciers with views of the ocean remains the same. We offer 2-day descents of both the Easton Glacier as well as the Coleman-Deming route.

2-day Ski Descent

1:1 $950

2:1 $475 per person

3:1 $375 per person

4:1 $375 per person

Reserved for only the fittest of people, skiing Mt. Baker in a single day is a phenomenal experience with an 8000ftglaciated descent with views of the Pacific Ocean. This is a day you will remember.

1 - Day 1:1 Express $800

1 - Day 2:1 Express $450 per person

1- Day 3:1 Express $300 per person

1- Day 4:1 Express $275 per person

Whether it’s the Ptarmigan Traverse, Forbidden Tour, or Isolation Traverse we have you covered. Please reach out to help us figure out the perfect trip for you.

Price varies

Nuking snow at the pass and feel like calling in sick for work., We offer a special deal for last-second requests looking to take advantage of the most recent storm. Available as a half-day (up to 4-5 hours) or a whole day.

Whole day

1:1 $500 per person

2:1 $300 per person

3:1 $200 per person

4:1 $175 per person

Half day

1:1 $375

2:1 $200 per person

3:1 $150

4:1 $125 per person

Come with us to explore some of the hundreds of couloirs that are easily accessible in a day from Seattle. These easily let us cater the objective to your ability and the current conditions to let us ski the best snow.

1:1 $500 per person

2:1 $300 per person

3:1 $200 per person

4:1 $175 per person

If you think you know Snoqualmiend yourself stuck doing the same old tours well these days, Pass well or fi focus on showing you the off-the-beaten-path terrain. Few people know this zone, as well as guide Ian Nicholson, who spent 5-years working for the Northwest Avalanche Center, and he offered considerable advice to Matt Schonwald’s Backcountry Skiing Snoqualmie Pass ski touring atlas.

1:1 $500 per person

2:1 $300 per person

3:1 $200 per person

4:1 $175 per person

Join former PSIA L1 and L2 ski instructor turned Mountain Guide Ian Nicholson to work on your ski skills. For this program, we partner with Backcountry Adventure guides who is the concessionaire of the summit at Snoqualmie to ride chairs and work on the mechanics of skiing in regardless of steeper and/or Off-piste Terrain

Dates: Weekdays every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday

Cost

1:1 $500 per person

2:1 $300 per person

3:1 $200 per person

4:1 $175 per person

This is designed to be part two of people’s continued education and apprenticeship in the backcountry. Designed for folks who have already taken their AIARE 1, this two-day course helps continue to help folks understand the forecast and decide how and where to go, apply the builten to the terrain, and continue to make observations in the field to feel good (or bad) about where they are going. This course is also filled with dozens of tips and tricks to make ski touring easier.

We partner with Backcountry Aventure Guides for this program so please inquire about current availability.

Cost $400 per person

We partner with Backcountry Adventure guides who are a conssenionair of the Summit-at-Snoqualmie. Ride the lifts and explore the vast side country that Alpental has to offer. Skins are not required.

Dates: Weekdays every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday

Cost

:1 $500 per person

2:1 $300 per person

3:1 $200 per person

4:1 $175 per person

No Crowds, lift lines, or tracks. Washington's best kept ski and snowboard secret. Washington's Premier Backcountry Skiing and Snowboarding Operation. We partner with Cascade Powder Guides Cat Skiing operation for a single day, single seat ($695), single day group ($6950 for 10 people) or all-included 2-night 2-day Yurt based cat days ($18,950 for up to 8 people).

Likely the world’s most iconic ski tour the Haute Route has it all. Travel from one epicenter of the Alps in Chamonix and Mont Blanc to the other in Zermatt and the Matterhorn traveling over 100 miles through some of the most amazing and rugged alpine terrain imaginable. The bonus because you stay in huts every night you get to do this monumental traverse with only a 30L pack. Ian Nicholson has guided over 20 Haute Routes from Chamonix to Zermatt and knows dozens of variations to help to best cater the trip to your abilities. We partner with the Northwest Mountain School in the offering of these programs.

7-Day program

$2995 per skier (4:1 ratio)

The Berner Oberland offers some of the biggest terrain Switzerland has to offer and unlike a lot of other classic traverses in the Alps the Berner is all about finding the best snow in the best terrain rather than going from point A to point B. While this is still a hut-to-hut tour for two nights we base out of the same hut trying to summit and ski down whichever peaks we feel hold the best conditions for the group. Like the Haute route, we also partner with the Northwest Mountain School for this program.

6-days

$2495 (4:1 ratio)

Quieter than most multi-day European hut-to-hut trips, featuring better food and fantastic espresso. The Ortler is a lower-key ski-mountaineering traverse with dozens of possible glaciated and summit descents in a less traveled corner of Italy in its Northwest Corner. Run through a partnership with the Northwest Mountain school.

7-day trip

$2395 4:1

Alaska’s Chugach Mountain’s are meant for skiing. The Thompson Pass highway might sound low at a measly 2700ft but it already stands above the treeline with glaciers descending to within 300ft. This coupled with Alaska’s DEEP snowpack and runs that average 4000ft in length its easy to understand why Thompson Pass is such an epicenter for backcountry skiing.

6-day Trip

1:1 $5000

2:1 $2600 Per Person

3:1 $1800 per person

4:1 $1400 per person

Come expereince the intensity in the splendor of Chamonix and what is arguably the epicenter of ski mountaineering in the world. With trams taking us as much as 10,0000ft above town into heavily glaciated terrain no wear on earth can match the access yo big mountain terrain. While Chamonix is rightly known for the “extreme” it is big enough with literally thousands of possible descents it offers something for everyone.