Today i was working for West Highland college, running a basic winter skills day. I had john from outward bound shadowing me as he prepares for his winter ml, and two of the students have recently done a winter skills course with me so i used this opportunity to allow peer to peer learning by getting these guys to teach the others throughout the day. We based ourselves around the nid ridge on Aonach Mor, looking at snow pack analysis, testing and techniques. The wind really picked up and several inches of snow was deposited on us within a very short time frame. This additional soft snow also made self arrests near impossible, so we chased mike's helmet back down to a lower level and discussed basic avalanche awareness, and practiced some snow probe techniques. As the weather really turned fierce we headed for some lunch and a bit of a dry, after which we headed out and John ran a session on emergency shelters. We discussed the building of the shelters, dug some of our own and then discussed the pros, cons and application of emergency snow shelters, finishing off with a cracking buried bag snow shelter.we were then joined by dave and his team, and wrapped things up for the day with a debrief back at the college. A great day with John and the students, well done guys!!
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