8th Feb, Kendal MRT winter skills training

Today I was out with Kendal Mountain Rescue Team, training team members about personal skills for security on steep winter ground and looking at the types and uses of various snow anchors that we could use.

We held the training session in Over Cove near the top of Kentmere Valley. Lower down the snow cover is poor but gradually improving to deep powder before becoming rock hard neve near the top of the Cove.

We opted to look at the skills for security on steep ground initially in ascent in a gully and later in Descent down a steep ridge back into the Cove. Lower down we found some good snow and looked at building and testing the strength of the snow anchors we built.