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Date : 22/01/2022

Grade : I

Grade : 1

Style : Lead Climb

Type : Snow & Ice Climbing

Weather : Cloudy - poor visibility

Wind : Strong wind

Camping Type : N/A

Nights Camping : 0

Crag : Coire an t-Sneachda

Climb : Jacob's Ladder

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Description

Day out with the MMC, three teams of two climbing alpine style.
Very lean conditions but more than enough snow in the gully to make the route really good fun.
Very windy and vis a bit poor on top.

Area : Cairngorm: Northern Corries, Hell's Lum, Creagan Coire Cha-no, Lurcher's Crag and Outliers

This Area includes some of the most accessible (and some of the hardest) winter climbs in Scotland. Coire an t-Sneachda has an excellent variety of winter climbs, many in the lower to middle grades, while Coire an Lochain hosts classics of a range of grades and some extremely demanding test-pieces. This Area also includes the very accessible Creagan Coire Cha-no, Lurcher's Crag in the northern Lairig Ghru, and the training bluffs of the Chalamain Gap. Also included here are the cliffs of the northern side of the Loch A'an basin such as Hell's Lum, Stag Rocks and Stac an Fharaidh (as they are on the same general massif as Cairngorm), while cliffs on the southern side of Loch A'an are in the Ben Macdui, Carn Etchachan and Shelter Stone Crag Area of DLOG. The range's former name is Am Monadh Ruadh (the red hills), distinguishing them from Am Monadh Liath (the grey hills) to the west of the River Spey.

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