This weekend was organised by Alan Kimber for people on the Instructor or Guides schemes to look at using Ben Nevis and Aonach Mor as venues for working with clients.
Alan and James Thacker talked about getting the best out of the area in unfavourable weather and/or snow conditions and we practiced some moving together and short pitching by linking pieces of interesting grade I/II ground east of the Douglas Gap Gully.
On the Sunday we headed to Aonach Mor and looked at good terrain for skills progression and tactics for achieving this. Blair Fyffe (Dr Snow) in his capacity as SAIS observer gave an interesting talk on snow packs followed by more short roping and a look at safe means of access into the climbing areas. This was really useful as Aonach Mor is sometimes a serious place to get around. I think maybe some people see it as quite a benign venue but there are frequently snow slope, cornice and navigational issues to deal with.
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