Yesterday Paul climbed Iron Butterfly.ÃÂ Today Mark and Martin climbed Sidewinder in the Northern Corries and other teams were on Fallout Corner, Savage Slit and Prore.
Damien and i climbed Western Slant.ÃÂ We found this to be an excellent and varied route.ÃÂ The first pitch was a traverse on water ice bulges and a mixed chimney.ÃÂ The second pitch was a turfy traverse.ÃÂ At this point the route joins Western Route.ÃÂ The third pitch gave excellent snow ice climbing and Damien lead the fourth pitch which was a mixed corner of about IV 5.
It was whiteout on the plateau today.ÃÂ It began snowing heavily as we left the Cairngorm car park.
