Learning About Avalanches & Outdoor First Aid

The Great Outdoors Track students learned about how to assess avalanche danger by reading the snow, and how to find victims of avalanches using probes and beacons. 

Probing for victims:

Reading the snow:

Creating a human burrito. Specifically, learning back-country first aid for winter: Eli gets hypo wrapped.

Eagle Watching

The Junior High Track and the Great Outdoors Track combined to take a cruise on Lake Coeur d'Alene to see the eagles. Bald eagles gather in the hundreds at Lake Coeur d'Alene in the winter to feed on the abundant kokanee.

Can you spot the eagles?

Rock Climbing, Indoors! (And More)

Rain and snow outside, but nice and dry inside. The Great Outdoors Track borrowed the Sandpoint Rock Gym this morning to try their hand at rock climbing. Looks like fun! Good work, Mrs. Haag!

Then students learned about fly tying from Dillon from North 40 in Ponderay.