I was working for Glenmore Lodge the last weekend on an Introduction to Winter Climbing course with Martin and Colum in the Northern Corries. Mild conditions made it a challenge to find good climbing, but on Saturday we climbed a route up to Fiacall Buttress to give some pretty good climbing on snow, frozen turf and some […]
Read more "Intro to Winter Climbing"Beth, Elaine and I walked into Corrie Fee in Glen Clova to look at winter climbing skills. We climbed ‘E Gully’ – which had some good ice poking through the snow and well frozen turf from the corrie floor. This gave us good a climb. The Corrie had stripped back a lot overnight, and the […]
Read more "Teaching winter climbing in Corrie Fee"Alex, Alasdair and I headed to the Northern Corries to find some winter to climb in after Saturday’s thaw. There is some evidence of Storm Doris, but the snow line was back up to around 900 metres. We headed into Coire Laogh Mor, as the winds on tops looked very strong and we wanted some […]
Read more "Winter climbing skills"Brianne, David and I headed up to Coire Creagach of Sgairneach Mhor to look at mountaineering skills – moving on snow with axes and crampons. We also looked at snow belays – digging bucket seats and horizontal axes. Some big snow patches high up Interesting animal traps on the walk in. A colder start […]
Read more "Mountaineering in Coire Creagach"I’ve been working for Summit Ascent this weekend. On bright but breezy Saturday, Dave, Mel and I headed up to Coire na Ciste in the Northern Caringorms. Mel and Dave had never been out in winter before, never winter climbed, nor donned crampons, so we had a wander to find some hard, scoured snow […]
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