This was the second day of the advanced avalanche course and we headed to Villars, the nice surprise being as I was about to trade in one of discount lift tickets I found out they were only charging 20 chf anyway which is pretty good.

The main objective of the day didn’t quite pan out though, an access lift we wanted to make a steepish descent into some interesting terrain wasn’t running so we had to improvise around the area. That wasn’t so bad though, there was some nice powder on some slopes and some pretty interesting snow in our avalanche pits!

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