Winter Mountaineering
Some photos from the Winter Mountaineering course ran at Firbush Outdoor Centre. Plenty of snow on the Ben Lawers range.
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Avoiding Denis
A very challenging period of weather over the last few days with Storm Ciara followed in quick succession by Storm Denis. Saturday saw the Firbush Winter Skills course head up the lower slopes of Ben More to find some sheltered snow. This sort of worked, but given the very strong winds and quantity of rain, […]
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A weekend of two halves – Saturday was mild and wet and the team from Firbush Outdoor Centre with Tom and Stephen had a late start and headed up Beinn Sheasgarnaich to try and find some snow patches. I joined them on Sunday as the temperature dropped, bringing wind, snow and cold temperatures overnight. This […]
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Up on Meall Tarmachan again, this time with the Firbush Centre’s staff preparing for the winter season with some staff training. We managed to get the best of the day and had a stunning afternoon revising movement skills coaching for winter mountaineering and walk; and talking over digital mapping, route planning and going over […]
Read more "Winter Training Day"Cam Chreags
Barry wanted to get some climbs in for his Winter Mountain Leader award, so on reading the forecast for South westerly winds and overnight snow we headed to Cam Chreags on Meall Tarmachan hoping this venue wouldn’t be loaded with fresh snow and dangerous to climb. There was plenty of fresh snow, but the […]
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