Winter Skills - Nevis Range

Digging emergency shelters

Today I was working with Mike Pescod and Donlad King. We took the college students over to the nevis range for the last day of their lightening winter skills course. There is so much snow about. Three weeks ago they were wondering where we would go for the course, and if there would be a winter here, but today there was so much snow about we had to make careful decisions to keep safe. Mike Pescod runs Abacus Mountaineering Coaching and Guiding.

After a great course - back to the Gondola

Winter Skills

Students on Fiacaill Coire an t-Sneachda

Today I was working with Mike Pescod and Donald King. We took the College students on their first day over to the Northern Cairngorms. We moved over to the NE aspect of the Fiacaill Coire an t-Sneachda. During our sliding about session we encountered some easily releasing slab on a NE aspect, on the apex of a convex slope.

We made our way up onto the ridge and found an exciting route for the students - day 1 on crampons.

This is Chris

I took a look at 0.5 gully and didn't like the look of it, so I came down the goat track gully.

Goggles on. An awesome day 1

There were lots of climbers about, on a wide variety of climbs - not that I could see much, through the mist. I'm just going on the climbing calls I could hear form the climbs.