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Back home it's 'Baltic'

Thursday, 20 December 2007

Back to the reality of expectations for another (?) good British winter. Thanks to 'Minister' Reilly for this little snippet from deepest Galloway. It's all north of the border Colin! Farther north that is. Plenty of thin ice lines on Ben Nevis and the 'Curtain' is forming by all accounts and a loooong neck might win out on Point Five, but at a harder than normal grade. A good pair of binoculars would be useful from the Gairlochy road, west of the Caledonian Canal. Good stuff in all the big easy gullies, but still very little snow and REALLY COLD.


Well,

I must still be - officially - a keen mountaineer!
We drove, we trogged, we saw, and we did not put on our crampons.
Galloway's Dow spout gives 800ft of Grade II/III water ice after five days of frost (apparently). I think the guide book writer was being a little optimistic. Still, we went and had a look!

Colin.


posted by Westcoast Mountainguides @ 14:44 


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