Northern Corries

Looking over at the northern corries from Loch Morlich this morning. Coire Cas in the centre.

This weekend I'm working at Glenmore Lodge working on a Winter Skills course for members of The Mountaineering Council of Scotland. My team represent the Dundee University Rucksack Club.

The top Cairngorm Mountain car park bottom left

Coire an Lochain today - great slab in the centre

We headed over to Coire an Lochan, shown above, which turned out to be a great venue for an introduction to winter skills for the team. The snow was firm initially in the morning, but with a slight rise in temperature during the day it became softer in the afternoon. There were lots of teams about developing nav skills, snow knowledge, footwork, cutting steps, stopping a slip, stopping a slide, crampon footwork, and going on journeys. As always great fun.

There weren't too many climbers around here today, but it was busy over west today on the Ben, where conditions would have been better in the morning.