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Practicing winter skills/snow pack tests at a resort
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

Hi,

Been lurking for a few weeks and found this forum very helpful, so I was hoping somebody could help me.

I'm going out to Tignes in March in a group and a few of us would like to spend a morning or two practicing some winter skills stuff off-piste.

We might do an avalanche transceiver half-day course, but we don't have much money for much else than that. A few of us are climbers, and one in the group has good trad and a little winter climbing experience. We were thinking of practicing some rutschblock tests, a bit of rope work with snow bollards, maybe a few self-arrests.

Are resorts happy for you just to find some snow not too far away from the piste and get on with it, or might they have a problem with this?

Thanks for any advice,

Tom
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

I just try an find a test slope that people will not be skiing on, maybe a little mound that nobody will bother walking up or something inaccessible below a cliff. Nobody has ever said anything, even done it next to lift stations. I assume if nobody can fall in your hole and you are not making weak points above a piste then there's no problem. Plus it takes a severely power crazed pisteur to stifle alpine education!

That said I hear the Austrians are a little more relaxed that the french about well... everything up the mountains rolling eyes
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

...errmmm - you can always fill in the hole once you have finished. Seems rather anti-social not to. I've always been encouraged to on avi courses.

One of the 'catch 22s' here is that testing in a place that's tucked away and not where you intend to ski, does not tell you about the layers where you intend to ski.
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Thanks both. I'll remember to fill in the hole!

The idea is not to test where we want to ski, but to practice the test for at time when we will be in a situation when we might need it. And not just about testing the snow pack, also want to make snow bollards and practice some rope work.

Assumed it would be OK, but just didn't want to do something that was frowned upon.
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