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Crampon Work on Blaven. 16th February

16/02/12

Tim’s team’s winter skills course looked like it was heading for a wash-out this week but skills learnt from Matt on Tuesday were applied well in Great Gully on Blaven today.

Dodge the hole!

Athough the top 6 inches of the snowpack has suffered in the heavy thaw the very old snow below remains very hard. As as result we had over 500ft of good snowstomping in crampons with only a couple of short mixed sections.

Tim checking out the rock routes on the buttress above

The rewards on the summit were the same old mix of golden light effects that I can never tire of.