More Pictures from Las Leñas

We are getting ready to go ski touring this morning. The plan is to ski Patagonia corn at the Escalonado and C4 peaks near Chapelco. However, I thought I might drop few more pictures from Las Leñas that I never got to post due to the very busy schedule.

Views to the West, toward the Andes crest, and to the Chilean border direction. Notice the active volcano with plumes. We took these two picture during one of the ski tours days to el Collarcito with the AVI L2 students.

Next, two pictures with views of el Collar and El Collarcito lines.

Pictures of more wild terrain toward Las Leñas Peak. These pictures were taken during our ski tour to the Office area for the final day of the AVI L2 course.

Below a picture fas I proceeded to snap a photo of the brush after wich the Las Leñas is know for. Las Leñas is the name of this yellow colored brush.

Avi L2 Students doing snow pit work.

Chago (me, with the yellow coat) talking to students about CT tests.

Students looking at snow crystals.

Level 2 students are expected to be competent users of SWAG annotations with the Blue Book.

Once more, Chago again talking about snow pit test results. My youngest son, Fritz (red coat) is sitting in the background.

Students learning about how to create temperature profile with an IR thermometer.

And of course, AVI L2 students had to meet the expected minimum search times for single (less than 3 minutes from search start to probe contact) and multiple burials (less than 7 minutes for 2 transceiver exercise).

Some of you might notice the BCA logo and equipment on this pictures. They have been supporting SnowProject avalanche education in Argentina - Thanks Bruce and Steve!

It might appear that I was leisurely skiing and touring during my trip to Argentina, but these pictures serve as my evidence that we were working hard in evangelizing snow science and safe travel with my Argentinean friends.

Later today I will be posting more pictures from today's tour.