
Winter skills with my cousin and his husband. this was my first ever winter hill and crampon experience so it was fitting to take them up there too.
Weather was clear, with brief squally snow showers coming in now and then. Strong easterly winds, gale force on the summits, pinning us and blowing over on occasions. easily 60mph, as thats when i have trouble staying upright.
We did stob dubh first, coming back for stob coire rainneach.
at the bealach between the two hills i taught the guys how to ice axe arrest, use a bucket belay, and dig an avalanche check site looking at the layers of snow. lots of sastrugi formation snow today making it very pretty. We covered navigation also, and made it back to the car before the weather turned for the worst.
Area :
Glencoe South (Loch Linnhe To Loch Etive)
The southern side of Glen Coe includes some very well-known mountains and can be split into two groups; the ones you can see from the A82 and the ones you can’t. Included in the former group is Buachaille Etive Mor, Buachaille Etive Beag, the Three Sisters and the Ballachulish Horseshoe, and in the latter, three Munros between Glen Creran and Glen Etive (Sgor na h-Ulaidh, Beinn Fhionnlaidh and Beinn Sgulaird). With huge amounts of climbing and walking in summer and winter, this area is also home to a large cairn built for Queen Victoria, or so the story goes. Includes all major peaks above 600m.