Cairngorm Winter skills Course

Over the weekend I have been working in the Cairngorms on a 2 day winter skills course with a team of 5 Medical students from Newcastle University. With the weather conditions fairly extreme on Friday with high winds, heavy snow and a high avalanche forecast I though we were in for a tough weekend. Saturday morning saw far better conditions with the avalanche risk disappeared and most of the snow showers disappeared. We head up into the corries for a fairly static day covering all of the requierd skills to travel around in winter followed by a journey up onto the Cairngorm plato on Sunday.