Making The Best Of Things

Rotten forecast, but three of us still made the effort to head north to try and get some ice climbing .

The 5 hour drive saw us planning a range of options depending on the weather and the upto date reports that came in overnight...the joys of smart phones and UKC

Gone are the days of adventuring into the unknown with nothing more than the weather from Ian McClaskill .

Heavy rain in the valley overnight but we took a walk up to the lower cascades on Ben Nevis and found them to be I great condition, the freezing level had remained fairly low overnight. 4 great great II and III pitches with one grade IV

Make life so much simpler if you can abseil rather than finding a route back to the bottom of the routes