Cairngorm 2 day Winter Mountaineering Course

I have been working over in the Cairngorms over the weekend for GWC school from Edinburgh. Saturday saw us escaping up onto Meall a Bhuachaille as the road to the ski centre was closed and reported 100mph winds down at car park level. We had a day looking at the skills required to travel around safely in winter in preparation for Sunday.

With the winds still high on Sunday and a lot of snow moving around we had no option but to stay low. Arriving in the ski centre car park it was goggles on the second you climbed out of the bus. The lads did well and persevered up into Coire an t-sneachda where we were constantly blasted with spindrift carried on constant 50mph winds before heading back down to the cafe