How To Ski Tour | Safety, Kick Turns, Planning and More

In this ski touring tutorial we squeezed 10 tutorials into one so it will contain a lot of information but we could obviously not cover everything and we apologise for that so make sure to take appropriate safety courses! Dave Searle teaches us many basics tips and tricks about ski touring. A few things we learn are how to plan your next ski tour, how to pack for ski touring, how to put climbing skins on, using pin bindings, how to kick turn, how to choose a safe line to walk up and much much more. Remember to take avalanche courses or join a guide to learn more about the hazards of ski touring. Join a camp: https://stompittutorials.com/camps/ Things you will learn in this touring tutorial: 00:00 Intro 01:00 Planning | Look at the Weather & Avalanche conditions 02:09 Precautions we were taking 02:51 Planning tools 1. Guide book 2. Map 3. Digital Fatmaps (make sure to have an analogue map to due to connectivity) 4. Ask locals 03:45 Equipment / Packing 05:05 Putting the skins on 05:54 How to 06:23 How to set up the ski boots for walking uphill 06:56 How to step into pin bindings 07:21 How to choose where to walk up 07:54 How to know if the slope is less than 30° steep 08:24 Measuring if the slope is more than 30°. 30° or less than 30° 09:05 How to walk on touring skis 09:46 How to kick turn 10:45 3 Tips on walking efficiently 12:10 How to take the skins off Planning and preparation https://fatmap.com/ More in-depth packing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzfczOVbhyM Avalanche courses: Switzerland: https://www.swissalpineguides.ch/english/AvalancheCourse/ Sweden: http://svelav.se/ USA: https://avtraining.org/recprogram/ Canada: https://www.avalancheassociation.ca/ France: https://www.chamex.com/trip_courses/aiare-level-1-chamonix Avalanche bulletins: European bulletins: http://www.avalanches.org/eaws/en/main.php USA: https://avalanche.org/ Canada: https://www.avalanche.ca/map See what Dave is up to: https://www.instagram.com/searlerdave/ https://www.facebook.com/searlerdave/ https://davesearle.me/