Feb.19,2011
The members that are taking the GSAR course with a few instructors went up to Mount Washington to do some avalanche training. We learned how to use avalanche beckons and got to try to find some that were buried in the snow by the instructors. When the beacons got us with in two meters we had to learn how to do a pole poke to try and find the person. I really enjoyed being on the mountain on such a beautiful day. It was great fun to snowshoe to were we were going. We also learned how to set snow anchors in the snow for rappelling over cliffs. It was my fist time rappelling down a cliff outside it was very cool. Finally we got to learn how to read the different types of snow layers by digging a hole and then looking at the different layers that had formed over the last few months. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a camera with me so sadly there are no pics. It would have been a perfect day for it to.
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