| Winter Skills Course Photos from Bald Hills | February 3, 2008 |
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.
The previous day we headed out to Hilda Creek near Mount Athabasca to do Avalanche rescue practice and practice building snow caves. On this day 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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Opal Hills from the Maligne Lake Parking Lot
Opal Hills from the Maligne ...
Opal Peak
Opal Peak
Skiing up the Bald Hills Fire Road
Skiing up the Bald Hills Fire ...
Laura looking back.
Laura looking back.
Looking up to the summit of Bald Hills
Looking up to the summit of ...
A panorama of the meadows on Bald Hills
A panorama of the meadows on ...
Taking a break.
Taking a break.
Unnamed Peaks to the East by Opal Hills
Unnamed Peaks to the East by ...
Ascending the slopes
Ascending the slopes
Looking up the hill
Looking up the hill
Unnamed peaks along the Jacques Lake Trail.
Unnamed peaks along the ...
Unnamed ridge overlooking the North Shore of Medicine Lake.
Unnamed ridge overlooking the ...
Digging snow pits to perform tests on the stability of the snow pack.
Digging snow pits to perform ...
Samson Peak to the East
Samson Peak to the East
Leah Peak to the East
Leah Peak to the East
Possibly Sunset Peak to the North West.
Possibly Sunset Peak to the ...
Opal Peak to the North East.
Opal Peak to the North East.
A panorama to the East of Bald Hills. Maligne Lake is on the right.
A panorama to the East of ...
Preparing to try a Rutschblock Test
Preparing to try a ...
Unnamed Peaks to the North
Unnamed Peaks to the North
Unnamed peak back and between Leah Peak and Samson Peak.
Unnamed peak back and between ...
A high point of Opal Hills near Opal Peak.
A high point of Opal Hills ...
Trying out a Rutschblock Test
Trying out a Rutschblock Test
Skiing higher up the slope.
Skiing higher up the slope.
Mount Charlton and Mount Unwin to the South East
Mount Charlton and Mount ...
The summit of the Bald Hills.
The summit of the Bald Hills.
Unnamed slopes to the South.
Unnamed slopes to the South.
Looking down to Maligne Lake. Samson Peak on the left. The Samson Narrows can be seen right of center as well.
Looking down to Maligne Lake. ...
Unnamed higher Peak to the East near Leah Peak.
Unnamed higher Peak to the ...
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