Unfortunately the plan to combine a guided ascent of Curved ridge on the buchaille with a bit of instruction to improve our winter technical skills had to get changed.
We teamed up with Cliff from Alan Kimbers school in Fort William:
http://www.westcoast-mountainguides.co.uk/
It was so wet and windy though, that just getting dragged up an out of condition grade III route for the hell of it seemed pointless.
We took Cliff's advice and stuck to the shelter of great gully, where we messed around practising snow and ice belay techniques - bucket seats, deadman, axe belays, etc, including stomp and footbrake descent techniques. All good stuff.
There was a lot of avalanche debris in the bigger steeper fields, so at points it was slightly nervy day. I've been playing on the hills for over 30 years, and hadnt seen quite so much avalanche action before - big dumps of snow, unbonded, turn to mush as the temperature goes up, and then slide slowly down ....
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