I finished the Avalanche Level 1 course last week, and started Level 2 a day later.
Below some pictures:
Julian Carielo, co-owner of SnowProject, meeting with Eddie Reges. Eddie is one of the nicest guys in the world, and is Las Leñas Ski Patrol Physician as well as Safety Director.
Martin, is one of the ski patrollers responsible for communications. We skied together few days ago in a very remote locale called Valle Hermoso. I will be posting pictures tomorrow. Valle Hermoso is just magical, and infinite number of surreal lines with incredible 3200 feet continuous drops are rarely skied. However, I join the ranks of the few privileged!
Las Lenas resort front side from the resort base, next to its famous Innsbruck restaurant.
Above, take notice of Senidor, a very nice shoulder with steep and open lines.
Julian Carielo admiring our morning ski destination,
The top of Cerro Fosil. Notice the most prominent coluoir line from the top (excess of 4000 feet!). The name is Eduardo, and we skied later in the day. The winds were high, thus the lift going to te top was closed. But Las Leñas host (Claudio Margaride from Extreme Expedition and Ski School) arranged for us to make it to the top of Cerro Fosil in a snow cat.
Next a series of pictures form our snow cat trip to the top of Cerro Fosil at 11254 feet.
Loading at the base.
Views from the resort base my dear friend Tali loads the skis. Notice Entre Rios backcountry terrain.
Going up!
At the top, + 11,000 feet, with Cerro Martin in the background.
More views from the top of Cerro Fosil, with Torrecillas backcountry in the background.
The wind hammered top, cruising to Eduardo Coloiur.
The entrance to Eduardo, quite exhilarating. It was definitely an adrenaline pumping experience.
Views of the Eduardo run we just skied. Fritz skied with some New friends this same line few days later. Pedro call the line sick after inspecting other pictures, and exchanging messages from Berkeley. What do you think?
Below some other pictures from our Avalanche L1 course students:
Riding a bus back to the resort after skiing with them the sidecountry. The ambience was very festive.
More pictures from the Avi course are included below:
Views of Senidor ridge and shoulder in the background.
Yellow coat is me showing V-shaped excavation technique to students. Julian and Erik are next to me.
Student working on stability tests in the sidecountry.
Myself (yellow coat) with students fooling around!
This is for now. I have to go to a pizza party!
Chago
