Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Avalanche Operations and Weekend Fun

As I have been on the road for a good part of the last 2 months, ice climbing, skiing and mountain biking I have been neglecting my blog. So to my followers and viewers my apologies for the delay. In the following blog post ill be showing you some pictures from my very busy 10 days on avalanche operations where I was able to find weak layers in the snow pack and do snow science in the Revel Stoke area BC. We were also able to set off controlled avalanches by ski cutting and cutting large cornices of snow. 








When we are not ski touring or flying into the backcountry by helicopter our third option is taking the snow cat into the backcountry. 























A picture of my skis just before I managed to break them.


































Full snow profile work, yes this is the office.






Snow density tests on each layer of snow.







And after the work is done on the slopes the weekend fun starts. We climbed a 245 meter waterfall near Fields BC.