This one is just a quick video-type post. I was out doing a crevasse rescue course as part of the ACC Edmonton section’s Summer in the Mountains course last weekend. We stayed at Rampart Creek and went and practiced under Parker Ridge. It was amazing weather, and although I regularly applied suncream to my face I forgot my ears, lips and hands. DOH! The result is some painful sunburn…but at least I know how to rescue someone from a crevasse now!

When I have my stuff sorted I will post more pics and info about this course. But in the mean time here are some videos I found online about how to build some different sorts of snow anchors. Interestingly it looks like it was also filmed at Parker Ridge though, from what I can tell.

The snow picket video here talks about how they’re not great in the Canadian Rockies, but we had some success with these burying them horizontally in t-slot fashion. I would not recommend trying to play them vertically. Looks dodgy to me!
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