See what happens when Colin Zacharias, IFMGA/ACMG mountain guide and consultant, performs a propagation saw test. After which he said, “Gotta love our Canadian Rockies early-season snowpack: terrifying snowpack test results, avalanches everywhere, and at the end of the day your ski bases look like they have been used as a snow leopard’s cat toy.”
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