A damp day in Sneachda

Having travelled back to Aberdeen for a holiday; Aaron had been in touch to get out into the mountains.  Unfortunately we couldn't have predicted how bad the weather was to be recently and had to make the best of it.  The Nothern Cairngorms had the better forecast for Thursday so we drove up and headed into Coire an t-Snechda.  Everything was wet and the cloud refused to lift higher than the corrie rim for most of the day.
 

Aaron making progress up pitch three of Fingers Ridge (Diff**).

We opted for Fingers Ridge (Diff) first as its straight forward and fine in the wet.  Our hope was that other routes closer to VS would be dry enough for us to get on later in the day.  This was not the case as critical sections of a number of routes were still soaking whilst the rest of the route looked dry.

Conquered!

Aaron was keen to get in some abseil practice so instead of just packing up we climbed Lamp Direct (Severe) which ended up almost as wet as many other portions of the crag.  At least the grade was at the right level to meander up and practice the abseiling whilst getting a route in.

Aaron making his way up the wet and a little dirty Lamp Direct (Sev).