I spent the weekend with Edinburgh University Mountaineering Club looking and winter climbing skills. [ Saturday I spent with Tuva and Erling moving along the Fiaciall Ridge. A busy day on the ridge – most people electing not to venture onto the slope in corries. Lots of wind loading on the scarps and exits […]
Read more "Winter Climbing Skills"I was working on an EICA Ratho winter climbing day today. The weather was very windy and there was lots and lots of drifting snow under a strong southerly wind. Sam and I binned the idea of climbing in the corrie as the thought of wind slab on the approaches and exits of the climbs […]
Read more "Fiaciall Ridge"Cracking weekend with Jerome and Adrian in the Northern Corries on a winter climbing course for EICA:Ratho. Dry with bone hard neve and ice in places. We avoided the crowds in a blue-sky day on saturday by climbing a line to the right of No.4 buttress in Coire an Lochan. This gave a good, long […]
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