Stob Coire Nan Lochan

On Wednesday this week the Winter Mountaineering team for Jagged Globe headed for Glencoe for a journey to practice some of the skills they learnt on Monday at Aonach Mor. It turned out to be a day of brilliant weather, with often stunning views of Glencoe. We found a snow slope leading up towards the ridge, and followed the ridge line to the summit of Stob Coire nan Lochan.

Charles, Freya and Dave

Sharon and Charles

Charles, Dave, Freya and Sharon

After the summit we opted for a descent of Broad gully to get more snow and crampon experience.

Broad gully peppered with loose stones from recent stone fall - no stone fall today.

When the rock is dry - it'll be ready for some chilly trad climbing!

Broad gully on the right

Back to the Coire base, and back to the van to complete a great day for the team. This is the second consequtive week on snow for Sharon and she's making grat progress. Tomorrow we'll do ice axe arrests and snow anchors before a journey again on Friday to complete the week - and the Jagged Globe season of 2012.