Friday 16 March 2012

WINTER SKILLS, LEISURELY STYLE

Steve axe arresting
Paul, Steve and Dan are out with me for the next couple of days, today was an winter skills day for our route over the Carn Mor Dearg arete and Ben Nevis tomorrow. We had an leisurely start-heading to Aonach Mor late morning and having a coffee whilst we waited for the Nevis Range gondola to get going because of the high winds early on. So it wasn't until after mid day we got walking, perfect really as we also missed the early heavy rain. We did get a few brief snow showers above 850m but it was mainly dry and very pleasant. There is still plenty of snow in the Eastern corries and we had the whole area to ourselves. Tomorrow is looking very nice with sunny spells and much colder temperatures so any snow should be well frozen up.

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