Time for some Winter Skills with Adventure Peaks.Working for Adventure Peaks, the course this weekend is a two day Intro to Winter Skills course, for people new to the delights of Scottish winter rain and wind. There are 11 people on the course and I'm running it with Nick Jones from Keswick.
The weather today was a bit rough, persistent rain all day, being driven by a consistent 50pmh W wind.
My landlord happens to be the Manager of the Gondola office, and he said that the Aonach Mor Gondola was planning to open in the morning but may have to close by mid-afternoon, so we decided to go for it for quick access to snow, and HOPEFULLY a gondola down.
We got the full force of the 50mph wind and sought sanctuary around the Nid for the sessions on self arrest. The group loved the crampons, loved sliding about, loved the wind (yes - Cassandra actually loved the wind) - and I loved getting fully wet !
Scottish rain - gets everywhere...
On the up side they all loved it, and we got the Gondola down, on the down side the course is down to 9 people tomorrow. We'll find somewhere to fully test the new skills..
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