Pro Tips: AMGA Mountain Skills Video Series

Learning from your mistakes is great. Learning from someone else's mistakes is even better.

Backcountry skiing is an activity where learning from someone else's experience (often including mistakes) is a much safer, and faster, way to progress.

Learning from backcountry skiing professionals is a great way to advance your skills in the backcountry. 

The American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA) recently released the second season of The Mountain Skills Series of video tutorials, including backcountry touring skills such as Tech Binding Considerations, Kick Turns, Stowing Your Skis or Board, and more. 

Each of these short videos provides valuable information on commonly faced challenges or topics relevant to backcountry ski touring. Check them out below and learn from the experience of backcountry professionals!
 

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Jerry Isaak is an Associate Teaching Professor and the program lead for ski touring in the Adventure Studies Department at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia. He is an AMGA certified Ski Guide and has guided backcountry ski adventures in Iceland, Kyrgyzstan, Japan, and throughout the United States and western Canada.