Climbing with a guide is one of the most enjoyable ways to experience the exciting wilderness ascents of the North Cascades. Part of the attraction of the climbs is the variety and challenges they present on the way to the top; climbers must apply varied technical skills, excellent route finding, and good judgement. The technical resources and margin of safety provided by AAI’s professional guides make these ascents very enjoyable and give you the opportunity to further develop your technical, hazard assessment, and route finding skills.
You may wish to consider preceding your guided ascents with two or more days of skills review. Every year many of the Institute’s clients return to the snow and rock of the North Cascades, the readily accessible glaciers of Mount Baker, or the rock cragging routes in Leavenworth and Index, to “tune up” their skills before tackling their high mountain goals. Any four to six-day (or longer) itinerary can easily incorporate such a skills refresher. Please call or e-mail us to set up a climb or design an itinerary.
It’s also easy to arrange a trip for a group of friends. Such a trip can be a series of climbs, a skills course concluding with an ascent, or a trip that combines skills development or review with exciting series of ascents. And if you are coming on your own but would like to climb with others, you can request that we match you with other climbers of similar background and interest.
We hope you will join us this season and for many years to come.
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