Friday 1 January 2010

Water ice on New Years Day





Looking for a quick hit Al and I went to climb Steall Falls, we'd both been waiting for this to freeze for a long time (along with everybody else)!
There was plenty of ice and also plenty of water charging through the middle, but that was ok, it was easily avoided. The one thing there wasn't plenty of was ice screws as Al had forgotten them. Oops. So we decided to solo, which was fine and liberating, abseiling back down from trees in two drops and a bit of a scramble.
Driving past the Lower Falls we noticed that they were pretty well frozen as well. What the heck, we dropped in and did that too. Daft but just a bit of fun. The tourists liked it.

Pictures courtesy of Al H and Scott.

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