Mat, Karolina and I went up onto the West Face of Aonach Mor today. The snow that has fallen over the last few days has been deposited by Westerly winds onto Easterly aspects and so we thought this would be an objectively safe place to go and get Mat doing some leading. We climbed a combination of gully and then rock rib around Ruths Gully which gives about 300m of grade I/II ground and was ideal for today. Mat lead the first half and then I took over on the upper section as the weather closed in. It was the usual wind and whiteout on the top but we were amazed to find over an inch of snow had fallen in the car park! The wind changed direction today to a North Easterly and the top of our route was collecting large amounts of fresh windslab, hence the switch to the ridge. Its snowing hard outside the window of the house now with the roads all white so the skiers will be happy!
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