Sunday 6th Sep 2020

Hotham Room

Zoom Webinar (Max 100 attendees): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87987923356 

If Zoom is  full, go to the Facebook stream

Facebook Live (Unlimited):

https://www.facebook.com/vicbackcountryfestival/ 

Bogong Room

Zoom Webinar (Max 100 attendees):

https://zoom.us/j/98014107480 

If Zoom is  full, go to the Facebook stream

Facebook Live (Unlimited):
https://www.facebook.com/mountainjournal

Feathertop Room

Zoom Webinar (Max 100 attendees):

https://zoom.us/j/95686474700 

If Zoom is  full, go to the Facebook stream

Facebook Live (Unlimited):
https://www.facebook.com/BSARVic

1:00 pm

Cam Walker

Welcome and acknowledgment of country

1:10 pm

Jennie Milton (Bio)

Snowkiting: What’s it like having your own personal lift in the backcountry

Kelly Van Den Berg (Bio)
101 intro to splitboarding

Glen Clark (Bio)

Traverse Hotham

Cross country skiing in the backcountry

Break

1:50 pm

Bill Barker (Bio)

Hotham Ski Patrol
Ski expedition in Antarctica

Terra Roam (Bio)

Climb8

Planning for an 800km snowshoe expedition across the Aussie Alps

Peter Campbell (Bio)
Ski touring, backcountry skiing and volunteer search and rescue

Break

2:30 pm

Dr. Kate Leeming (Bio)
What it will take to make the first bicycle crossing of the Antarctic continent

Marco Palmieri (Bio)
Terrain management

Hagen Berghaus (Bio)

Tirol Sports Hotham
Practical aspects of touring

Break

3:10 pm

Graeme Joy (Bio)

Graeme will share stories of his expeditions to the North Pole and another solo to the Magnetic North Pole - what happens, and what it's like functioning in such cold conditions

Vicki Adams (Bio)

Outdoors people for climate action

Peter Campbell (Bio)

Backcountry skiing and peak bagging in Norway

3:25 pm

David McCoombe (Bio)
Mt Stirling Ski Patrol

Break

3:50 pm

Polar Panel & QandA

Three adventurers will discuss expeditions to the extreme North and South of our globe:
Kate Leeming + Graeme Joy + Bill Barker

Agata Imielska and Simon Murray (Bio)

Mountain Sports Collective

A walk through of weather phenomena that creates snow in Australia

Greg Paul (Bio)

Police Search And Rescue 

Common causes of preventable emergencies in alpine areas.

This will be the last session in Feathertop Room. Please head over to Hotham or Bogong Room.

Break

4:30 pm

Western Faces Film 

With intro and QandA with  producer Lachlan Humphreys (Bio) & mountaineer Tim Macarty-Snape (Bio)

Mark Oates (Bio)

Gear chat: answering questions on some of the equipment he uses for multi-day touring in Australia with a focus on lightweight gear

This will be the last session in Bogong Room - please head to  Hotham Room for closing speech

5:15 pm

Cam Walker

Wrap up and plans for 2021

5:30 pm

End