The Mountain Skills Semester is Yamnuska’s 3-month flagship program that has been around for over 40 years.  Countless students have come away from this program ready to begin their journey into guiding while others want to simply come away feeling competent and ready to tackle the mountains for themselves. The reasons people take this gap […]

February 17 – 19, 2018 It was a cold, dark morning when we met Yam’s guide Patrick Delaney, at the start of the three-day Rampart Creek Ice Camp.  We were six clients from parts of Alberta, Toronto and Oregon, keen for instruction or to finesse our current ice climbing skills. Day 1: We drove up […]

‘This past week I had the pleasure of teaching the Intro to Mountaineering for women! Five ladies gathered at the Yamnuska office eager for coming to the mountains to gain knowledge and travel skills to add to their adventures. We had a father who had previously taken part in our general Intro to Mountaineering course […]