Sabtu, 31 Januari 2015

Winter Mountaineering

This week I'm working on a 5 day Winter Mountaineering Course for Abacus Mountaineering.

In the end I only had 1 client for the week - Ryan Wilkes - from Basildon in Essex. I needn't worry about him being fit enough - he generally runs a half marathon every weekend! After looking at the weather and Avalanche forecast we headed up to the CIC hut for a look about... We discussed strategies for walking and moving, with a theme of energy conservation and efficiency. We moved onto the snow and continued with our theme. We worked on staying on our feet but moved onto slipping and sliding.
We started to look at avalanche avoidance and winter route choice. Later with crampons on we explored all the ice above CIC in the gulches - a great day out, and we were only a little bothered by the wind and rain - why let that spoil a great day out!!

Here Ryan is getting on with sliding - and starting to learn about stopping a slide...

Okay, my fault, I made him pose for the photo!

Ice, ice, wonderful ice !

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