So this was my first morning with Matt Stygall from West Coast Mountain guides. The weather was still pretty horrific so we drove into Glen Coe to assess options. Matt quickly settled on doing the Zig Zags up the nose of Gearr Aonach in Glen Coe.
The snow was deep and squelchy as we made our way up. The spot was clearly the right choice as there were a number of other guides and their groups there. We roped up fairly sharpish and proceeded to scramble up the Zig Zags. Great fun and not too exposed or scary (but I'm probably just saying that because I'm now considering it as relative to the climbs we did since...). We lunched in style on a make shift ledge under Matt's emergency shelter (used 2 nights earlier in a genuine rescue). We managed to take in a "summit of sorts", but didn't go up as far as the summit of Gearr Aonach.
A good day, but with the snow being so deep the scrambles felt a bit easy - it was hard to go wrong, just stomp the snow down and trample up.
Went for a beer (along with a bunch of other guides) at the brilliant Clachaig Inn (http://www.clachaig.com/). Over 300 whiskies and I didn't try one......
Blog entry from West Coast Mountain Guides - http://www.westcoast-mountainguides.co.uk/news/snow/
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