Northern Corries
Some photos of Coire an t-Sneachda from yesterday. High snow line and little cover. Cold day, but milder today and over the weekend.
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Northern Corries Tour
Blue sky day touring around the Northern Corries of the Cairngorms. The ski area gives a convenient and easy way to access via skins!
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Another wild day for the second day of the EICA Ratho winter climbing day I was working on today. High winds and snow made the crag approaches and exits full of wind slab so we stuck to the east faces and climbed on the buttress on the Fiacill ridge. Mike, Neil and I had another […]
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I was working for EICA Ratho at the weekend running this course. Saturday we spent on Gael Charn in Drumochter revising our movement skills and looking out steeper ground to get us prepped for getting onto “mountaineering terrain”. The weather wasn’t as bas as forecast with only the odd heavy, snow shower, but it was […]
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Excellent climbing conditions in Corrie Snec of Northern Corries despite the strong winds and mild temperatures. The freezing level was above the corrie floor, but there was excellent hard snow and ice – however milder temperatures and rain since then will have softened things up. Stuart and Ian climbed Crotched Gully but took “more […]
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