Saturday David, Colin and I opted for an alpine style ridge and headed for Western Rib on the West Face of Aonoch Mor. This face isn’t seeing the sun until about 11:00 am and gave an excellent 500m route on snow, granite and suprisingly well frozen turf. Some care was required with the odd loose block.
Sunday Colin and I headed for the West Face of Aonoch Mor again, whilst Graham and David chose sunny rock climbing in Glen Nevis. We climbed Daim Buttress, giving another 500m of very alpine style scrambling/climbing. This route seems to catch more sun and the turf was generally soft and to be avoided except in shaded corners. The rock gave good sport, but much more care was required with loose blocks, particularly through the crux area on the left of the slabs.
The weather was stunning with high temperatures and wall to wall sunshine on Saturday and Sunday. A little refreeze over Saturday night, but most things are softening up and gullies are catching a lot of snow and ice from the sides as temperatures warm up. A second hand report that Point 5 was climbed on Sunday and despite an early start the upper sections were unpleasantly lively with slides from above.
