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.
Teaching day with Dave. We got the 9am gondola up and caught up a couple of 8am teams gearing up. Managed to overtake them around the abseil into Easy Gully and arrived at the base of Left Twin as a team were on the second pitch. Very warm in the sun and lots of rime falling off the cliffs. Dave is MCI trained and climbed Tower Scoop the day prior so I let him lead p.1 and p.3 which he was delighted with and I offered him some input and advice along the way.
