Friday 5th March, Winter Skills And Coaching

The west face of Aonach Dubh avalanched last week (perhaps Monday night). The thousands of tonnes that flew down the face and the gullies are still evident. Some debris can be seen above

The debris caused a lot of damage. There are pieces of tree and a big piece of fence in the debris, which have all been ripped away from higher up

Here is a team on their way to climb Number 6 gully

Jack and I moved away to safer ground to cover bucket seats, burried axes and snow bollards

Jack wanted a day of winter skills and ice climbing coaching. So after the winter skills near Aonach Dubh we headed to the Ice Facter. We covered energy conservation and technique for ice climbing, building belays and prussiking up a rope. A useful day to end his course.