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Pacific Crest Outward Bound School |
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Alpine Mountaineering |
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Class is in session. |
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Before each one of us makes our first plunge, a few final words of instruction are before us. In these self arrest exercises, we are getting familiar with the handling of our bodies during downward acceleration and moving them into full stop without the use of ice axes.
After our stationary drills of throwing our legs over our bodies to flip over in both directions, we move up to the top of this slope to try out self arrest while rocketing downward. The run-out was quite safe as after awhile we would have just stopped before crashing into anything. |
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