How-to Glissade

Early summer climbing is the perfect glissade season, and Mount St. Helens' glissade chutes are legendary. Watch this short video by Lead Guide Taylor to review glissade technique before you hit the trail!

[@patrickprice3230]

Glissading something we did 40 years ago...but it was called we don't have a sled back then.

[@shevetlevi2821]

We did glissading on Outward Bound summer 1971. But we did it down fairly steep slopes standing up and not down snow, but down rock fields called scree.

[@sierrajohnson717]

Thank u for posting!

[@nacholibre1962]

Kicking the feet in can cause you to flip if your going too fast!

[@larslodge9282]

exactly 👍🏽 very dangerous

[@Szeru]

Yeah, no idea from where that comes from. Especially that you'll be using crampons with axe more often than not...

[@nkd3047]

@@SzeruI think this is geared toward glissading, which is intentional and shouldn’t be done w crampons. if you’re glissading so fast you can’t arrest without flipping you might want to slow down

[@ineffecient8243]

You should probably be telling people to kick their knees in so they don't get in the habit of self arresting with their feet. This will break their ankles if they need to self arrest while climbing with crampons.

[@lukeswofford428]

You shouldn’t be glissading in crampons anyway if you catch the snow you will break an ankle