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"Andrew and I were going to drive up to climb on Creagan cha-no in the Northern Cairngorm but couldn’t face another hour’s drive when we got to Drumochter so we decided to visit Coire Creagach. We had a great day on some short but fun turfy icy lines. We managed to find the chock […]
Read more "Coire Creagach"Some folk have been asking for route information about Coire Creagach, so here are some topos. The routes have most likely been climbed before, but I’ve named and graded them for easy comparision in the furture!
Read more "Coire Creagach Topos"A late start due to a late night on Saturday meant we couldn’t get far north from Edinburgh on sunday, so we headed up to Coire Creagach in Drumochter. Certainly full conditions on the hill amd very wild with a lot more snow than we were expecting. We climbed four short, but sweet routes between […]
Read more "Winter Climbing Taster"Just looking over pictures from this time last year, and thinking how similar the weather patterns have been. ? These two pictures of th 8th Jan 2006 in the Drumochter Hills – the Coire Creagach of Sgairneach Mhor on the left, and the south side of Ben Udlamain on the right – a clagged in […]
Read more "Weather patterns repeating?"