Ice Axe practice May 4, 2003

The photo above is of your leader practicing his ice axe skills earlier today. Click the pic to see a couple more. As you can see from the pic of the Waterman ski area, unless there's a big, cold storm in the near future, there soon won't hardly be any snow left around the 6000-7000' level. I tried to practice self-arrest a bit at (I guess) around 7000' at the closed Kratka ridge ski area. The snow was thin and very mushy, making that a bit difficult.

I don't know the subject, but this is a good pic too.