I have been joined for the week by Simon, Andy, Sam, Matt, Chris and Dan for a five day winter skills course. For the first day today we headed up on the Gondola onto Aonach Nid after a kit check and weather chat back at the cottage. We looked at ice axe, crampon and self arrest skills and talked about avalanche avoidance as we travelled. It has been a glorious sunny day with temperatures of -4 at 750m and some fresh snow on the ground after a flurry last night. Friends of mine climbed Forgotten Twin on the East Face of Aonach Mor which is normally grade II. They reported reasonable ice that would allow ice screws and steep climbing at about grade III. People were also climbing Right Twin and Left Twin reportedly looked good.
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