Yesterday my clients headed up Stob Ban with friend and fellow instructor Dave Holmego whilst I was in the Cairngorms. Today I took them back onto Aonach Mor to utilise the gondola and tired legs and we did some good crampon work on the bomber neve and looked at emergency use of the rope and snow anchors. It was a very cold day as forecast with temperatures well below freezing and a good coating of ice on the summit plateau and great neve everywhere. There were some very slight snow showers but no real quantity of snow where we were. It sounds like its all in England!!
Alec headed up onto the Ben today and soloed Hadrians Wall Direct (V), Comb Gully (IV) and West Gully on the Douglas boulder. He reported hard ice and some spindrift but generally very good conditions.
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