After being here for about 3 weeks I've finally started my real job for the summer, with a couple of days of training up at the Frundenhutte. We were practicing the activities that I'll be running and the techniques we'll be using. Starting on Wednesday afternoon we hiked up to the hut past the lake (at a pretty fast pace), so that we were up there for dinner (awesome as all hut food is). Then the next day we spend working on the glacier itself with Marc, the hut warden and mountain guide (a pretty cool guy - he didn't bring any food or water, just smoked for most of the time). We were mostly doing Glacier Workshop stuff, which involves working around on the glacier with ropes, crampons, and ixe axes, then dropping people into a crevasse and then pulling them out, and ice axe arrests. Overnight there was the biggest storm I think I've ever heard. Then on the Friday we were out on the glacier again, doing some ice climbing and more crevasse rescues.
Then on the Saturday we did the Snow & Ice Expedition (formerly known as the Petersgrat Expedition). It normally takes 2 days, but we did it in a day which was fairly knackering! Mostly it involves a long hike over the glacier and then over the Petersgrat ridge line in the middle of the glacier.
I start for real (with guests) tomorrow! Feels like I'm being thrown in at the deep end.
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