Intro to Backcountry Skiing Recommended Reading:
	BACKCOUNTRY SKIING: Skills for Ski Touring and Ski Mountaineering by Martin Volken, Scott Shell and Margaret Wheeler Available at The Back Country.
	Free Skiing - How to adapt to the mountain Available at The Back Country
	Wild Snow by Lou Dawson Foreword by Bela G. Vadasz Available at The Back Country
Recommended Follow-up ASI Courses: Tahoe Backcountry Ski Tours Sugar Bowl to Squaw Valley Ski Mountaineering Techniques European Haute Route
Tech Tips:  Folding Climbing Skins By: Bela G. Vadasz When it's not windy, you can often take your skin off the ski, carefully bring the tail up to the folded over-lap by the tip and join the glued surface together toward the middle of the skin. It requires some practice to not let the sticky surfaces touch prematurely while you're neatly joining the surfaces. Another method that is easy, especially in the wind on top of the ridge is to only peel half the skin off the ski from the tail and fold that section of the skin bottom to bottom. Then, peel the rest of the skin off the ski and fold the remaining section bottom to bottom. This way, by breaking it into 2 sections, it's much easier with shorter sections of sticky skins to deal with.