I was out just to the North West of Newtonmore today with Anna and Ali on their day off. We picked our way up through the heather to the start of the snowline around 700 m. Ticking off the Creag na h-lolare on the way over to A'Chailleach.
The weather today was amazing with sun glasses out for the first time this year. Hopefully the high pressure will carry on in to next week making for some beautiful days out.
There is a considerable cornice on the east face of A'Chailleach and unbonded wind slab with evidence of recent avalanche and cornice collapse.
James Thacker was out on the Aonach Eagach on the west today were I believe conditions were also good. If you are a keen climber you can join James for Facebook Thursday with his information on where to point the car on a Friday.
This Monday I was out with Adam in the Coires working on security on steep ground, after practicing different forms of belays we moved on to putting them in practice in Aladdin's Couloir.
Whilst moving up the couloir the RAF Sea King arrived in the corrie sending a wash of Air directly on to us making the conditions seem more like a normal Scottish winters day.
The snow today had a thick layer of frozen snow sitting on top of wet snow. But in the Gullies it was well consolidated.
The eight days before Christmas I was out with the Outward Bound instructors from Aberdovie. After a 14 hour journey from Wales through arctic weather they finally arrived and were ready to start a week of walking and climbing.
Here's what we got up to thanks to Matt for the Video.
Hopefully the colder weather will return before the start of the New year.
Hope you all have a good New Year and I hope see you all about next year!
Here you will find reports of what we have been up to and the current
weather conditions from where we have been.
