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Always love your reports Mark! Chris Silvester 908.510.9851 [log in to unmask] On Mar 26, 2017 20:22, "Mark P. Renson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Rather than risk dealing with a frozen padlock late at night in the cold, > I headed up on a Saturday morning and skinned to Hermit Lake. There, > Hutmistress Sarah showed me where the blowtorch is stored so I could remedy > any frozen lock issue and not have to repeat sleeping on the floor. At our > morning meeting I got to meet our newest Snow Ranger, young hot shot > climber Alexa, a local rock and ice guide with AMGA coursework. > > In the afternoon, I led an NSP Avalanche group to a safe spot at the Bowl > near the bottom of R Cubed. Things went well and I enjoyed lecturing and > doing downhill guiding afterwards through Connection and Little Headwall > finding nice skiing for all. > > Then at a little after 5pm, we got the word for: http://www. > mountwashingtonavalanchecenter.org/2017/03/20/stranded- > climbers-march-18-2017/ > Whaddya' know, Alexa flexed her technical climbing skills and led up > Damnation Buttress at twilight and into the dark and up Damnation Gully. > She totally crushed it! Another patroller was at the top of the gully > while I and another patroller were on standby in the cabin doing > communications, logistics and scribing which was praised. The next > morning, I enjoyed a Sherburne run and then we had an extensive debriefing > about the prior night rescue which was especially valuable - sorry, lotsa' > top secret stuff that I can't discuss. > > This weekend, it was all snow down to the notch as I skinned up under a > headlamp which was very worth it as I had nice untracked at sunrise the > following morning down the Sherburne. Later, we had a snow geek day as 5 > of us gathered with no less than 4 of us having AMGA coursework - it was > wonderful being with such a professional crew in many ways. With a new > Head Snow Ranger comes changes and I am excited about them and buying into > the new demands. We poked around Left Gully and the Bowl and had some fun > turns with the punchy knee wrenching wind slab, death crust and some > powder. The descent down the steep super fun Test Slope was a highlight > for sure. Today was just a nice day but with the sun blasting the cold > wind slabs, we kept things conservative. I did see a small wet loose slide > in Sluice and per a pic I saw on FB there might have been something ripping > loose In Right Gully. I made a second and final run down of the day down > the Sherburne and conditions and coverage was outstanding. > > > Mark P. Renson > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SkiVt-L is > brought to you by the University of Vermont. > > To unsubscribe, visit http://list.uvm.edu/archives/skivt-l.html > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SkiVt-L is brought to you by the University of Vermont. To unsubscribe, visit http://list.uvm.edu/archives/skivt-l.html