WINTER SOLSTICE WITHOUT SNOW

Sgor Gaoithe summit 

Best of the snow

Navigation all day

Slumping cornices

Bare plateau

Dream snow!

Final day with Tom & Alice. On a list of 'winter skills' Winter Navigation is right up there at the top of the vital skills to aquire.  The Glen Feshie hills are perfect terrain to hone your map and compass knowledge.  Unfortunately the snow was absent from the mountains today. Of course the skills are exactly the same in summer and winter.  The big differences are lack of features on the ground , working with big gloves and the cold. The guys did a grand job, they navigated all day and we're spot on. We had cloud down to 800m all day and the freezing levels was just above the summits.