Glencoe

Interesing weekend of weather in Glencoe with Halli Wild and wet early on Saturday cleared somewhat to a mild and mainly dry afternoon. Wet, thawing, snowpack in Stob Coire nan Lochan.     Sunday was cold and snowy on the tops. The snow had frozen hard giving good climbing on the snowy gully lines.   […]

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Ski tour

Travel problems prevented me getting to Glenmore Lodge on Friday, but managed to meet up with David for some  ski touring around Glencoe at the weekend. Excellent cover in places. Pockets of wind slab on most aspects made careful route choice important. Clear weather mostly but  strong wind at times.

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Glencoe Scrambling

Brianne, David and I headed up to Glencoe to look at scrambling and mountaineering skills – building on David’s evening the other week when we looked at trad leading. It was very wet heading up, but dried out nicely later on. We climbing the Zig Zags and Easy Route on Gearr Aonach and looked at setting up […]

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