Training, training, training: we’re all gathered here at L&L’s B&B getting prepped for our AMGA Ski Mountaineering Guides Course/ Aspirant Exam. Isn’t that a mouthful. But, somehow between gathering all of our weather data websites and ironing out our TOPO! programs, we got some fun skiing in yesterday. The North Face of Dimond Peak has everything a ski mountaineer could wish for: big crevasses, a bergshrund problem, 40-50 degree hard slabs, and not an ounce of powder.
We scraped our way down making hop turns with wide smiles. The challenges stimulated much debate as to weather we would actually take clients on such a mission. Probably not. Maybe if there was some powder. Aaaah, powder- we’re keeping our fingers crossed!
Photos courtesy of Ben Mitchell.