Alec, Andy and I headed up onto the Ben today. We chose the S W Ridge on the Douglas Boulder (III) to keep clear of the high winds on the summit plateau. The route is a great Alpine style ridge and gave 4 pitches of nice climbing and an abseil off in cold conditions. The wind was roaring over the summit so were glad to be tucked in the shelter of Tower Ridge. We then made our way across to some nice ice smears where we put a top rope up and had a play on some steep ice. The clouds were kissing the summits all day and we had some very light snow showers but not much to speak of.
Dave Hormego and Karl headed up onto North West gully (II/III) on Stob Coire nam Beith and reported good snow conditions and sheltered from the wind until they topped out.
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