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Point Five
Carn Dearg
North Face
Lower section
Middle section
Approaching the Little Tower
Carn Mor Dearg Arete, Aonach Beag and inquisitive helicopter crew
Middle section
Eastern Traverse
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Report
:: Route(s)
Tower Ridge
:: Route Grade
Grade III
:: Weather Conditions
Blue sky until 3 pm when the wind rose and some cloude appeared as the next front approached
:: Climbing Conditions
Several inches of fresh windblown powder on top of a reasonable semi consolidated base. Lots of icing filling all the cracks although the main problem was the sheer quantity of new snow which made for exceptionally hard going especially on several normally straigtforward sections. The filled in cave section was particularly interesting !
Several other parties out on various easy lines and Point Five already well filled with ice and almost certainly doable next week assuming things settle down again
:: Climbers
Al Todd & Alan Taylor
This report was posted by AlTodd at 22.02hrs on Sun 6th Dec 09