General Report, Aonach Mor etc

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Strong winds and rain are forecast for the start of the week.

Very good conditions today on the West Face of Aonach Mor. Loads of good ice in the gullies around Golden Oldy. Great Gully on Buachaille Etive Mor has a lot of good ice in as well, although this may start to melt out soon if the threatened poor weather comes in.

Alan Kimber

Observatory Ridge, Ben Nevis.

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Cold cloudy and calm. Snow showers and wind picked up late pm.

he buttress looked in reasonable knick but the snow on the first six pitches was soft and unconsolidated. What turf there is was well frozen but the poor snow and slabby nature of the rock made the lower half of the route hard for the grade and time consuming. We transferred to solid neve in the top part of Zero which speeded us up but our rather late start meant that we topped out in a near white out at 10-40pm and decided to spend the rest of the night in the summit shelter.

An excellent route but probably considerably easier with good snow on its lower half. Unless you want an adventure probably best to only start up Observatory Ridge when Zero is in nick (which it certainly isn't at the moment) as this would indicate that you are more likely to find good conditions on the lower part of this route.

Richard Pow

powfamily at longfram dot net

North Gully, Ben N, Creag Corie na Ciste.

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Blue skies all day.

7-10m ice pitch at start, snow of variable quality there after., Great climb.

andy mcalea

amcalea at hotmail dot com

General Report, Ben Nevis.

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Still great weather and conditions up north.

We have some space at the bunkhouse tonight and Thursday, but are full at the weekend. The forecast looks set to go wetter and milder at the weekend.

Alan Kimber

NE Ridge Aonach Beag

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Good

Bit of new snow,frozen turf,good day.,

Iain Clark