News & Updates

News & Updates

Follow the latest news from Alpine Recreation, including guided trips, alpine courses, ski touring adventures, trip reports, mountain conditions, and upcoming events. Browse our recent newsletters and social media updates to stay connected with what’s happening in the mountains and find inspiration for your next alpine adventure.

- 🏔️ Custom Splitboard Mountaineering Course | O’Leary’s Hut 🏔️ Last week’s custom splitboard mountaineering course at O’Leary’s Hut was a cracker — bluebird days, stunning views, and great riding in the Cass Valley 🙌❄️ Our crew tackled everything from skinning techniques and efficient transitions to steep terrain management, crampon and ice axe use, bootpacking, and roped travel. 1
- 🏔️ Custom Splitboard Mountaineering Course | O’Leary’s Hut 🏔️ Last week’s custom splitboard mountaineering course at O’Leary’s Hut was a cracker — bluebird days, stunning views, and great riding in the Cass Valley 🙌❄️ Our crew tackled everything from skinning techniques and efficient transitions to steep terrain management, crampon and ice axe use, bootpacking, and roped travel. 2
- 🏔️ Custom Splitboard Mountaineering Course | O’Leary’s Hut 🏔️ Last week’s custom splitboard mountaineering course at O’Leary’s Hut was a cracker — bluebird days, stunning views, and great riding in the Cass Valley 🙌❄️ Our crew tackled everything from skinning techniques and efficient transitions to steep terrain management, crampon and ice axe use, bootpacking, and roped travel. 3
- 🏔️ Custom Splitboard Mountaineering Course | O’Leary’s Hut 🏔️ Last week’s custom splitboard mountaineering course at O’Leary’s Hut was a cracker — bluebird days, stunning views, and great riding in the Cass Valley 🙌❄️ Our crew tackled everything from skinning techniques and efficient transitions to steep terrain management, crampon and ice axe use, bootpacking, and roped travel. 4
- 🏔️ Custom Splitboard Mountaineering Course | O’Leary’s Hut 🏔️ Last week’s custom splitboard mountaineering course at O’Leary’s Hut was a cracker — bluebird days, stunning views, and great riding in the Cass Valley 🙌❄️ Our crew tackled everything from skinning techniques and efficient transitions to steep terrain management, crampon and ice axe use, bootpacking, and roped travel. 6
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22 Jul 2025

🏔️ Custom Splitboard Mountaineering Course | O’Leary’s Hut 🏔️

Last week’s custom splitboard mountaineering course at O’Leary’s Hut was a cracker — bluebird days, stunning views, and great riding in the Cass Valley 🙌❄️

Our crew tackled everything from skinning techniques and efficient transitions to steep terrain management, crampon and ice axe use, bootpacking, and roped travel. We dug snow pits, practiced companion rescue, built anchors and belays, and even got into some basic crevasse rescue systems. Big days, big skills, and big smiles 😎🏂

Thanks to an awesome team of motivated riders who brought the stoke all week! 🔥

📸 G. Loomes

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