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Avy School: Day 2

After the classroom session Thursday night Avalanche School took us to Mt. Seymour for day 2. We met early (7:30) at a coffee shop at the base of Seymour going over the day's objectives and plan. Gear check revealed that one person (name not mentioned) forgot her skins, and another his trasceiver, oy! After sorting gear out we thankfully took Mystery chair up, saving us a long hike, and then continued to ski up to around First Pump Peak. We spent the day learning about what slopes to avoid in what conditions, safest route finding, trasceiver locations and how to evaluate the snowpack through various tests. After 8 or so hours it was back to the coffee shop for some debriefing.

The group digging a pit to test the snow layers:

Posted by Evan at 8:12 PM