Post holing through deep snow.This weekend I'm working for Glenmore Lodge on a MCofS Winter Training course for University Mountaineering Clubs. The Lodge has only just dug itself out of the snow that fell during the end of last week but 65 students had made a big effort to attend the course. We headed up towards Ryvoan Bothy to look at a variety of winter skills including navigation by pacing and timing, emergency snow shelters, avalanche avoidance and ice axe arrest.
Room with a view!
Winding our way back to the Lodge.The deep snowpack was very noisy as we moved around on easy angled slopes. On investigation the unstable layer of hoar frost is still very much in evidence beneath approximately 50cm of soft windslab creating a high avalanche risk (east facing slope at 350m). There was some evidence of small slides on the steeper sides of the valley along with a number of impressive sun wheels.
