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Join us on and around Mount Shasta for our envigorating back country snowshoe,
cross-country and telemark ski tours.

Our Winter Awareness Clinic with Robin Kohn will teach you how to appropriately prepare for a winter trip and how to create a safe, fulfilling experience once you arrive.

DATES: Winter t ours are offered daily from November thru June, weather permitting, as long as there is snow on the ground!

COST: See Rates and Reservations for details.

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WINTER AWARENESS CLINIC
with Wilderness Guide, Robin Kohn
An all day training in which you will learn how to appropriately prepare for a winter trip and what to do for a safe, fulfilling experience once you arrive. Such topics as equipment, how to dress, what to eat and drink, familiarity with the area, weather, use of a map and compass, what to do if you get lost or in an emergency, how to deal with injuries, how to prevent winter illnesses such as frostbite, dealing with hypothermia and altitude sickness, reading terrain, and avalanche awareness will be covered.

DATES: See Calendar of Events or by special arrangement.

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Back-Country Ski Trips

Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced: This trip is a wonderful opportunity to put your thoughts aside and be fully present in the magnificence of nature.

Beginning: These outings are designed to introduce you to cross-country or Telemark skiing. You will learn how to be in the elements of nature, conserve energy and break trail, as well as the basics of climbing, side stepping, kick turning, duck walking, downhill techniques, and using skins.

Intermediate and Advanced: Our experienced guide will introduce you to the incredible back-country of Mount Shasta, and bring you back safely to your point of origin. Extent of the journey depends on your stamina, skill level, personal intention and snow conditions.

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Snow Cave Building Tour
For adventurous snow enthusiasts who want to learn the best way to build a snow cave, which can be used just for fun or for actually saving your life in certain situations. This is a lot of work and is also very rewarding.

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Earth High Holiday Celebrations
High Holidays occur eight times a year - every 45 days - for observing the ongoing cycles of The Earth Mother. Winter High Holiday names and approximate dates are: Winter Solstice on December 21 and Candlemass on February 2. These tours include both outdoor and indoor activities. For Spring Equinox on March 20, even though the mountain is still covered with snow, we can usually find a place without snow and where beginning Spring growth has appeared. Celebrating these events with conscious intent brings blessings, not only for us personally but for all living things in nature and helps us realign ourselves to the rhythms of nature. These are times to renew ancient rememberings that we are no greater than the trees, the birds or the gentle deer.

See our Calendar of Events for descriptions.

DATES: St. Bridgets Day, February 2; Spring Equinox, March 20; Winter Solstice, December 21.

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Snowshoe Meditation Treks
For those of you who want to focus more on Mount Shasta’s world-renowned sacred mountain status, we’ll take you to special areas where you can experience the healing spiritual energy of the mountain. Treks may include guided meditations, toning, learning to communicate with the nature spirits, inspired poetry, intuitive messages received from Spirit, local myths, legends and history.

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Sacred Springs Tours
Everything in nature has a symbolic meaning. Natural springs represent connecting to one's Source. When approaching the site following one's own spiritual preparation and intention, these places have the ability to bring forth deep healing and understanding...the extent of which is really up to each person.

"Written in the natural elements of these sacred sites are stories that can be accessed (sometimes called the Book of Nature) to enhance one's inner awareness. Through the process of meditation and sacred communion with the Earth, each individual has an opportunity to access the powerful healing energies of the site for personal and planetary healing and empowerment."

NOTE: Winter access to springs is limited due to snow accumulation, so this tour is only available when weather permits.