Eddie and Mark have come over from Galway, looking to get out in the hills and winterise their knowledge. No problem, there's plenty of winter here at the moment.
After a quick dash to the shops it was off to Aonach Mor for a quick day 1 of movement skills and and some serious focus on safe travel in the mountains.
Luckily the guys are fabulous, and natural cramponeers and so we got a lot done.
There's lots of hard snow around the scoured areas of the Nid regions. Cross loading has produced pockets of soft slab on the surface, becoming more pronounced into the northerly and then easterly aspects. The slab is quite discontinuous and there are lots of rocky, grassy islands of safety to move between.
For interest we dug a pit to have a look at the snow profile and found a weak granular layer about 20cm down. The resulting block we isolated broke clean with a big hard jump from above.
This layer is well frozen at the moment, but if it gets warmer is going to get quite unstable.
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