Our accommodation for the winter skills weekend was the spacious rooms of Rothiemurchus lodge, where we assembled and prepared equipment before tucking in to a communal feast.
Next day, the trainees headed off first into Coire an t-Sneachda, then over to Coire na Ciste to practice ice-axe arrests, under the expert eye of Everest and seven-summiteer Di Gilbert.
Non-trainees attending headed out too – Snowboarding on Friday, up Cairn Gorm into a storm on Saturday, then in better conditions on Sunday there were various trips – to Braeriach, Meall a Bhuachaille and the Lairig Ghru, before folk headed off after a most enjoyable winter weekend.
