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Planning and Preparation for your Ski Tour

There area lots of things you can do before a tour to help make it successful. Pre-trip planning is like a reconnaissance, and time spent on it is rarely if ever wasted. A simple checklist which could form the basis of a pre-trip stategy is given in the box below.

Once on tour it is important to remain alert, and there are many simple procedures that will make travel more efficient and improve group safety. A simple checklist will help you, but ultimately only practice will ensure that these procedures become second nature in the mountains.

Safety Strategy on Tour

A list of procedures that comprise a safety strategy is given in the box below. There is no sequential order to these procedures – they are ongoing and invariably overlap. The important thing is that they are understood and done. Use the box as a checklist.

There are other aspects of safety that relate to group organisation (see box on Group Organisation below).