SCNL, Glencoe – Mountaineering

Great day yesterday in the sun up in Lochan looking over mountaineering snow skills and anchors.  Soft snow in the Coire but firm icy snow on the west ridge, we looked over various skils including ice axe arrest, using and axe to climb, snow seats, buried axe belays and snow bollards as well as digging a snow pit to talk over avalanche considerations.

Some routes climbed, Dorsal, Ordinary route in parts, Scabbard Chimney…  Loads of evidence of cornice collapse across the Coire and the cornice on NC Gully has come off.