Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Dinnertime Buttress, Glen Coe

Gregorz, Simon and I headed for Dinnertime Buttress in Glen Coe today. This buttress route gives  a grade II mountaineering route that is nice and low in the valley and so avoids a long wade through deep snow. Nonetheless the route itself was absolutely buried and I would find it hard to recommend at the moment! We watched some impressive natural avalanches coming down the gullies of Aonach Dubh, some of the largest I have ever seen in Scotland and there were small sluffs happening all day on most aspects as the temperature rose. It had also been snowing all morning. We decided to descend our route which gave us the chance to look at mountaineering in descent and have a look at some abseils too. Many thanks to the MIC training group that put a track in yesterday! 

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