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| Observatory Gully |
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| Trident & Carn Dearg Buttress's |
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| Marcus demonstarting the ice axe arrest down Observatory |
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| Solid snow below Point Five, great for bucket seat belays |
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| Marcus Abseiling off a snow bollard |
It was a much better day on the hill with light winds, high cloud base and only a few very brief snow flurries in the morning. Marcus, head instructor at Mixeden Outdoor Centre near Halifax, was out with me today, wanting to brush up on his winter skills. We headed up into a very quiet Observatory Gully and went through cramponing technique, avalanche awareness, snow belays and toward the end of the day some ice axe arresting as we slid back down. The crags looked a bit more wintry today after last nights snow above 700m and the freezing level was lower today. The middle of Point Five Gully looked a bit lean but Zero Gully looked like it was getting there. We saw a team heading up to Tower Scoop and a few folk on Ledge Route but apart from that it seemed much quieter today. It was nice to be talking to one another today and not shouting through a howling wind!
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