Backcountry Skiing

Martin Volken and his co-authors provide skiers with all the tools and knowledge they need to safely and successfully travel in the mountains. The guide features intermediate-to-advanced techniques for ski touring and ski mountaineering, from planning wilderness trips to perfecting turns in rolling terrain and mastering uphill climbing. For those skiers ready for a more technical, high alpine environment, they draw on traditional mountaineering skills, including roped climbing, setting protection anchors, using ice axes, climbing on bare rock, and more.

Martin Volken is one of only three officially certified Swiss Guides working in the U.S. Scott Schell is a certified AMGA Ski Mountaineering Guide and has led numerous single- and multi-day trips in the Cascades, British Columbia's Coast Range