HEAVY SNOW

There was a big dump of snow today on the Perthshire hills, we had continuous snowfall much of the day, heavy at times and the mountains were transformed to a beautiful full winter mantle. The snow was down at all levels and the road up to the Ben Lawers Visitor centre was looking a bit dodgy to travel on. Bruce and Anthony were on their second day of a winter skills course, we covered a lot of navigation, avalanche awareness & avoidence aswell as some more ice axe techniques including step cutting. We headed up an unconventional way onto Ben Ghlas, avoiding the 'tourists routes'. Well done to them for coping in the quite severe conditions although the forecast high winds were in fact only 30mph at 900m. Looks like a good deal more snow to come over the coming days, avalanche catagories are up to 4 in most areas, take care out there.