In the middle of an excellent AIARE LII Avalanche course right now with David at Rocky Mountain Guides. As you probably know, I love to play in the snow and explore, but doing so on higher-angle slopes requires some special skills and diverse data evaluation and terrain management skills. As a new resident of Colorado, I decided it was probably a good idea to get a better understanding of what exactly goes into the snowpack here, so I asked my managers if it a a good time to take a few days off, and started off on an adventure in the sadly shallow snows of Summit County.
