Tomorrow and into next week the forecast is for cooler and unsettled weather. Hopefully this will stabilise the ice and snow that is left on Ben Nevis. In my experience the winter still has a week or two to go on Ben Nevis and maybe further if some snow and cooler weather sets in.

Plenty of rock action on Etive Slabs over the last few days. A pair of wellington boots are good for walking in!

And from yesterday:

Hi Alan,
Fantastic sunny Alpine conditions in the Cairngorms today, and loads and loads of snow, but from a winter climbing point of view one four-letter word summed it up: MUSH. You'd have been mad to try anything, and anyway I only had one axe and no crampons, so I didn't, I just walked up Derry Cairngorm and Ben Macdui from a bike near the Hutchie. A year on from my own 'epic' I am happy to tonk up and down soft grade I slopes, but don't really fancy a lot more excitement than that just yet. It looked like the rock on Creagan a' Choire Etchachan and Coire Sputan Dearg was nice and warm and dry, ready to be climbed in fact, except that topping out through the soggy, overhanging double cornices would have been a once in a lifetime experience (and very much towards the end of the life in question). Cheers Tim

Thanks Tim, good to see you out and about. Your rope is still decorating a certain route on Nevis:)
Take care, Alan