A very brown looking Cairngorm
The Northern Corries were looking very spring like after yesterdays thaw as we made our way back into Coire an t-Sneachda for a skills & ropework day. We occupied a small patch of snow & ice for the day and worked through bucket seats, buried axe belays, direct belays, placing ice screws, climbing ice and abseiling off snow bollards before a quick dash over to the morraines to dig some emergency snow shelters. There was a worrying amount of rock and ice fall coming from the crags although Jacobs Ladder & Central Gully were both climbed.
Coire An t-Sneachda
The remaining ice in Aladdin's Couloir
Bucket seat belay
Reinforcing the bucket belay with a buried axe
Practicing good footwork on a bulge of ice
Front pointing on steep ice
Abseiling off a snow bollard
