[nlahue]

Hi,
What’s everyone’s 2c on ski touring as part of the workouts in the 24 week plan. I am doing the plan now to prep for Rainier and some other objectives this summer but have been ski touring this winter and plan on into summer with the huge snowpack.

For example my longest workout in a week is a long aerobic run or hike for 3 hours with 2000ft of vertical and no weight. Is it fine to substitute in a ski tour of similar length with about 10% body weight (basically water and avy gear)?

[Scott Johnston]

Great question. Thanks for asking.

Ski touring is great aerobic base training…….provided the gear is not too heavy or trail-breaking too deep to make every workout into an ME session.  You’ll know this if your legs are too shot to do again today what you did tomorrow. 1-2 of these a week, even if they slip more to the ME end of the endurance scale, is fine if you have adequate easy aerobic base between.

I hope this helps,

Scott

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