It's Wednesday and I joined day three of a five day Winter Mountaineering course with Adventure Peaks relieving their Instructor who was committed elsewhere.
Hanne, Rob, Steve and I travelled up the Allt a Mhuillinn to the north face of Ben Nevis on a brilliant entrenched path through what would otherwise be very soft, deep snow.
Finding venues for basic mountaineering days is tricky at the moment due to the avalanche risk and the huge volume of snow making travel to some areas almost impossible. Max tried to get into Curved Ridge in Glencoe yesterday and found metre deep snow making it unfeasible.
So, we found plenty of safe broken ground to operate on above the CIC hut.
Teams were on North East Buttress, Tower Ridge , Orion Direct and Green Gully amongst others. The approach to the Orion Face routes and Point Five are reported as scoured and so safe to reach. High in the Ciste however looked heavy with loose snow from a distance.
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