These two mountains to the north of Ben Nevis provide contrasting winter climbing venues. The east and west faces of Aonach Mor are easily accessible from the gondola and the east face especially provides many short, interesting and relatively non-serious climbs. Beware of avalanche conditions however. The cliffs of Aonach Beag however, are much more remote and much less frequented, but when in condition the ice climbs on its north face are highly sought-after.
Leading Sam and Christine as mock students on 1x60m rope to practice mountaineering stuff. Descended easy gully by lowering them on one end of the rope via a tied off snow bollard, I removed the knot and abseiled on two strands, set them up on a stomper, pulled the rope then lowered them a further 50m so the base of the gully. Short roped round to Right Twin on soft snow. Snow was quite slippy for axes in the warm sun but improved in the shade. Huge cornice that looked unavoidable so had to excavate a lot to get through. Will ab in and clear from the top next time!
