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"Most medium range weather forecasts seem to be predicting a cold spell coming up – which is great news for climbers and skiers, especially when we think back to last winter which was typified by dumps of snow followed by large temperature swings and then rapid thaws. There is plenty of snow above 850m at the […]
Read more "Wintery weather on the way – Medium range weather forecasts"I was working for Glenmore Lodge the last weekend on an Introduction to Winter Climbing course with Martin and Colum in the Northern Corries. Mild conditions made it a challenge to find good climbing, but on Saturday we climbed a route up to Fiacall Buttress to give some pretty good climbing on snow, frozen turf and some […]
Read more "Intro to Winter Climbing"Beth, Elaine and I walked into Corrie Fee in Glen Clova to look at winter climbing skills. We climbed ‘E Gully’ – which had some good ice poking through the snow and well frozen turf from the corrie floor. This gave us good a climb. The Corrie had stripped back a lot overnight, and the […]
Read more "Teaching winter climbing in Corrie Fee"Alex, Alasdair and I headed to the Northern Corries to find some winter to climb in after Saturday’s thaw. There is some evidence of Storm Doris, but the snow line was back up to around 900 metres. We headed into Coire Laogh Mor, as the winds on tops looked very strong and we wanted some […]
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