I was out with Andy and David on a EICA Ratho mountiaineering skills day on Sunday. We went onto the slopes of Meall Tarmachan and looked at movement skills using axes and crampons, before looking at constructing snow anchors and bucket seats. We then found some steep ground with some patches of ice and looked […]
Read more "Mountaineering Skills"I was working on an EICA Ratho winter skills day today. Louise, Dean and I went up to Meall Tarmachan to look at how to use axes, crampons and work on navigation skills. Despite the thaw, we found some excellent snow and even some ice to play on. The weather was pretty good, all though […]
Read more "Winter Skills"Up on Meall Tarmachan looking at some winter skills. Mhairi, Pamela, Andrew, Adam and I looked movement skills and also some rope work. It was a blustery day with snow falling at times. The wind had scoured the slopes with a south-easterly aspects and moved them to northerly aspects. The freezling level was just below […]
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