Australian Backcountry Festival
Extension Program ’26.
We are expanding the Australian Backcountry Festival delivering the training program for our guides, to the participants in the form of a ski touring program.
Fieldcraft and the ABCF is excited to be inviting you to join us for a backcountry deep dive of programs in the weeks leading up to and following the festival. Learn on the slide! Take a scroll and we hope to see you out with us.
Australian Backcountry Festival Participants
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Fieldtrip: Level One -
progression into intermediate ski touring
These trips aim to develop skills such that by the end of the program you are strong intermediate level ski tourer. The objective is a hut/camp based tour of Mount Jaitmathang and the Bundarra headwaters. The variety of terrain gives an abundance of options for ski touring from glades to bowls to chutes.
The best intermediate touring terrain in the state!
• ABCF Participants get 20% off
Fieldtrip: Level Two -
progression to advanced ski touring
These trips take your team from being led, to being leaders, in consequential terrain. The goal of the program is to develop skills to lead independent trips locally and expeditions abroad. The fieldcraft capacity is coaching rather than guiding. Suitable for experienced intermediate backcountry skiers looking to send big objectives and tentative guide level skiers to bone up on professional development. It’s the full stack involving all the soft skills and hard skills. There are prerequisites! Objectives: Mt Bogong / Mt Fainter & Mt Feathertop
Read the how this works section for a clear understanding of how we will be rolling out this program. • ABCF Participants get 20% off
new to all this? we also have introductory level backcountry fieldtrips.
Private Guiding Program
how it works
Unlock extended ski touring experiences, a side serve of safe travel & survival skills, and a few luxe touches.
Alpine Travel 101
Some of the gear, a bit of an idea? Jump in as we get you on the long steep approach to alpine awesomeness!
Backcountry
Slide Quest
Get in touch and we will customise your fieldtrip to suit you and your crew.
Events
Tubbulunganner Exposé
A superfun climbing festival at Mt Buffalo.
climbing, community and clinics
Exposé is in its third year of development. Its a gathering of people and skills to celebrate the wild beauty of Mt Buffalo climbing experiences.
Australian Backcountry Festival
Amazing ski touring, skills and party for everyone from first timers to old timers alike.
Mount Hotham on the last weekend in August
Now in its 8th year, the Australian Backcountry Festival was developed to share the knowledge and provide an introduction to all things ‘backcountry’. We provide the ski touring program for the event and train the guides cohort. Super fun program with superfun humans.
Rescue Progression Series
Level 1: Lowering: Focuses on foundational rope systems, refreshing multi-pitch belays, ascending single ropes, and mastering techniques to safely lower a stuck or injured climber.
Level 2: Raising: Transitions to a single-pitch environment where participants learn how to haul a partner, establish assisted hoists, and perform safe escapes from the belay.
Level 3: Committing: Puts advanced partner rescue and problem-solving skills into practice in more remote environments, ensuring climbers are ready for committing adventure routes.
Ange, Fieldcrafts Technical Director designed and has been delivering this program for 5 years, originally in the Blue Mountains, now in her new backyard, at Mt Buffalo.
Rescue Progression Session ONE
Rescue
Progression Session TWO
Rescue Progression Session THREE
