The workshop will look at information gathering and interpreting both the weather and SAIS reports. How that links to planning our route and identifying potential hazards including heuristic traps and then what options and strategies we have to manage them. On the hill we continue to observe and evaluate conditions and amend our plans as we go. Participants need to have some basic winter skills and operate self-sufficiently within the group. This workshop will also link in with the early evening lecture on the Saturday.