Alpine

Alpine

Making our way to the top of Mt Cassidy

01-08-2016

(TPP)

COE1

Temple Basin Arthurs pass
Weather: Snowing in the morning with clearing weather in the afternoon.
A day of firsts, fitting snow chains to a car, driving on snow chains, walking to a ski field, creating snow anchors.
Learning: snow can make strong anchors some of which are strong enough to break a snow stake instead of moving the snow.

02-08-2016
(TPP)
COE1
Temple Basin Arthurs pass
Weather: fine with periods of cloud cover.
A day of avalanche awareness and training.
Learning: Learnt how to use a transceiver and probe and to find a person buried in snow within 3 minutes.

03-08-2016
(TPP)
COE1
Temple Basin Arthurs pass
Weather: fine with periods of cloud cover and snow in the afternoon.
A day of putting our anchor building and pitching skills in practice.
Learning: Learnt how to pitch climb on snow and put all snow anchor types to use.
We also had the chance to watch and participate in the temple basin ski patrollers avalanche exercise.

04-08-2016
(TPP)
COE1
 Temple Basin Arthurs pass
Weather: Cloud cover with snow and wind towards the afternoon.
A day of mountaineering, putting all of the skills we learnt through the week into practice and using crampons for the first time, we got to the summit of mt Cassidy this day although the weather was fairly poor with strong winds and snow the summit was still an awesome achievement, We also made snow caves and slept in them this night.
Learning: This day we spent a lot of time inspecting the snow pack for avalanche awareness and how to travel in the, Snow caves are reasonably easy to make and are warm also,

05-08-2016
(TPP)
COE1
 Temple Basin Arthurs pass
Weather: Cloud cover with snow and wind
A morning of assessments, showing the tutors our abilities of finding a transceiver hidden under the snow under 3 mins and that we can identify avalanche hazards and where a likely avalanche can occur.
Learning: Never rush into a avalanche seen as in i walked to fast trying to find the transceiver walking past the transceiver by one meter. but still managed to find it within the 3 min time frame.

A visitor while sitting in snow anchor system.

Silas, Kev and burbs at the top of Mt Cassidy

Spending the night in our snow cave.

Temple basin 

29-8-2016

(P)

Temple basin.

Weather: Very good.

Olivia and I

A sweet day up the mountain building a few anchors and then tobogganing down some slopes in the sun shine.