This is the first weekend of an extensive course offered by the Edmonton Section of the Alpine Club. The course is designed to introduce people to the skills they will require for traveling in the mountains in the winter on skis. Classroom sessions cover hypothermia, clothing, gear, shelter, and avalanche assessment. This weekend follows immediately after the classroom sessions conclude. The skills covered on this weekend included avalanche rescue using avalanche beacons, assessing avalanche risk, testing the snow pack to help assess avalanche risk and building snow caves.
On this day we headed out to Hilda Creek near Mount Athabasca to do Avalanche rescue practice and practice building snow caves. On Sunday we headed out to Bald Hills by Maligne Lake to practice assessing the stability of snow packs. The weather was fabulous both days and I learned a lot as well as getting some great pictures too
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