Valdez Training

The North Face of Diamond Peak

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.

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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!

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Photos courtesy of Ben Mitchell.

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