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| John and Barry |
Jagged Globe - Winter Mountaineering On Monday I met Barry, John, Ruth, Dan, Dan and Peter for the start of their Winter Mountaineering week. We made our way up the Gondola and over to the Aonach an Nid. We found that the snow had frozen hard again over night, and was way too hard for any ice axe arrest practice, or even self belaying, so the crampons went on early and we started to work on movement. We looked at rock, ice and neve steep ground, eventually topping out on the ridge. We tied into some ropes and belayed each other over the steep edges for a bit of practice. This was a good start to the week, and we hope to soon get the team on some graded ground. The snow stayed hard all day above the Gondola station (650m).
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| John on something a little steeper |
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| Ruth laughing too much to climb over the top |
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| Peter - first time to Scotland |
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| Barry about to do battle with a mini steep finish |
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| Dan making sure the axes go in |
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