Big Day Out

Day 2 of the course. The course was 9 people strong keen for a day out to test their skills, so we planned to do the Stob Coire nan Lochan horseshoe. We carried out a clockwise accent. We found the snow to be a little firmer than yesterday after the cooler NW winds. All day the wind only reached a maximum of a 55mph gust, so better than yesterday. After a bit of initial rain, it turned to snow later. The cloud even rose through the day so later from the summit we managed to see the hotel in Onich.

We enjoyed lots of rocky scrambling on the initial ridge. The second photo shows a section of the scrambling.

At the summit we even had time to chill with a second lunch break - awesome.

On the way down we were checking the climbing conditions and found SC gully to be firm snow at the top but blank rocky sections for the grade 3 sections. NC gully was looking healthy though, good firm snow, well stepped out for most of the way.

Well done guys on a great weekend - back to work for some tomorrow though :(