Winter Mountaineering (KPE 246A)---2 units, offeredSpring Semester only.

The winter mountaineering course is an experiential examination and analysis in the judgement, knowledge, equipment and skolls necessary to safe mountaineering. . Course includes a field trip.

Field trip involves a 2-3 day trip to either San Jacinto Wilderness or Mammoth.

Course Objectives:

• To develop those skills which enable the individual to function with competence and safety necessary to wilderness travel and living.
• To familiarize the individual with the types and uses of necessary backpacking and mountaineering equipment.
• To provide outdoor opportunities for the individual to experimentally learn and demonstrate skills.
• To enhance the individual's perception of the wilderness environment and its place in it in ways that can be extended to other environments.
• To extend the individual's self awareness by identifying his personal limits.
• To expand the students capacity for responding to others and to construct cooperative relationships around common needs, involvements and commitments.
• To provide situations and experiences which will stimulate individual to examine and articulate his basic beliefs.
• To develop skills that provide physical conditioning for the participant which can be pursued as a life long activity.