Corbin

A fine day at Corbin. There were a couple of interesting events today.

The first was catching glimpses of a pine marten, or possibly two pine martens, slowly and inexorably pursuing a white rabbit. The rabbit made a few appearances, either dashing across the uptrack in full flight or slowly bouncing along beside us on the trail with a tired look on its face. The marten wasn't too far behind. We didn't see the end result but our friend Steve witnessed the denoument of a similar pursuit a few weeks ago. The rabbit didn't do so well.

The second was a large settlement we triggered while crossing a convex roll at tree line. Probably on one of the buried surface hoar layers lingering in the upper meter of the snow pack. It was interesting to note a series of cracks running from tree to tree into the distance. An extended column test gave us high numbered but conclusive result (ECTP30).

We were dubious about heading into any large terrain today anyway. This helped the decision. Instead we skied the margins of the main slide path and had a fun time.

Photo: Nick