WIND !!

Again with Barrie Tall, Roger Othick and James Morrison on the Jagged Globe Intro to Winter Mountaineering course we headed for Stob Coire nan Lochan in Glencoe. We got to the Coire on schedule and saw that the thaw has had a devastating effect on the snow, but there is enough for our purposes... We were very sheltered as we geared up, but we knew that the wind was waiting for us up high...

We headed up to Broad Gully. The wind was strong but not pushing us around too much at this point.

Broad Gully has lost so much snow - there are now patches of grass as seen in the photo!. Dorsal arete is loooking very sorry for itself..

Near the top now...

I popped my head over the top of the gully to see how bad the weather was. I went back to the group - goggles on, crampons off just before topping out. We then had the 'adventure' of short roping round the top, back into the coire... the wind was STRONG...