from SAIS Lochaber
It was quite wild with poor visibility during showers. Fresh snow drifing behind rocks on a rather icy Aonach Mor Plateau. From what we could see there was a fair bit of fresh being deposited on high Easterly aspects.
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from Guy Steven - Mountain Leader
Today was my final day with Stephen and Andy so we opted for a journey day where they could put together some of the skills they gathered over the last few days. We headed up over the Carn Mor Dearg arete which exposed us to some wild conditions. After getting in to the snow line it was pretty steady going up to Carn Mor Dearg, on arrival we donned our crampons and descended onto the ridge which is great fun. The wind was blowing quite hard which so goggles and face masks were essential. There was a good
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from SAIS Southern Cairngorms
Heavy snow at the top of Glenshee this morning. Road conditions were not great with a couple of trucks stuck for some time. The sign reads "Welcome to Aberdeenshire". At the main profile site for today the fresh snow from last night and early today is clearly visible. In sheltered locations the drifts are considerably deeper.
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from SAIS Lochaber
Two optimistic folk heading up towards Observatory Gully in some less that perfect conditions today. Looking up towards Carn Dearg Buttress in some not very pleasant conditions. If you look carefully you can see the streams being blown back up over the band rock in the middle of the picture. As predicted there was plenty of precipitation today. Unfortunately it was not as cold as expected, and a fair bit of that precipitation fell as rain rather than snow. After a mild night, it did snow down to about 700
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from The Alpinist - newswire
O n August 15 Denis Urubko and Gennadiy Durov climbed a new route on the north face of Peak Pobeda (7439m). Their route Dollar Rod (6b) climbs to the right of the 1982 Smirnov route, Dollar's Route (6b) and to the left of Verblud (6b, 65 degrees, Gorelik-Sokolov, 2009), a climb for which Gleb Sokolov and Vitaly Gorelik were nominated for the 2009 Piolet d'Or. Urubko and Durov climbed their route between August 10 and August 15 through inclement weather. On their second day the pair became mired in sixty to
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from The Adventure Blog
Keywords:
Stangl,
K2,
ft,
Christian,
camp,
climb,
summit,
group,
Camp 3,
23,294 ft
Earlier this week we received word that a major summit push was underway on K2, as a group of climbers moved up the mountain along the Cesen Route to take advantage of good weather. That group consisted of climbers such asAlex Txikon, Fabrizio Zangrilli, Kinga Baranowska, Louis Stitzinger, Christian Stangl, andGerfried Göschl, amongst others. While there hasn't been a lot of updates from the climb just yet, Gerfried's home team has posted on their progress with the news this morning that the group has ...
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from 2010 Mountaineering Season
Keywords:
hydrating,
Collins,
Upper West Rib,
camp,
camp this evening,
lots of hydrating,
14,200 camp this evening,
camp tomorrow,
Guide Greg Collins,
14,200 camp
Guide Greg Collins phoned in from the 14,200 camp this evening. Today they climbed up to 16,800' on the West Buttress Route to acclimatize and that went very well. He said that they have 3" of fresh snow at 14,200' and that they will rest in camp tomorrow. Rest days at 14,200' are well deserved and activities include lots of hydrating, hydrating, hydrating and eating, eating, eating. After that they will move up to their camp on the Upper West Rib, weather permitting.
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from 2010 Mountaineering Season
Keywords:
11,000' camp,
tonight,
AMS,
glacier,
Storm days,
white-out conditions,
11,000' camp tonight,
fine place,
inches of fresh snow,
windy corner area
AMS Guide Lisa Van Sciver from the Team Norsk Expedition called in tonight from the 11,000' camp. They are have set up their tents and are all settled in, they will be there for 2- 3 nights. She reports that they have been traveling in white-out conditions on the Kahiltna Glacier. There is about 10 inches of fresh snow on the glacier, which is manageable trail breaking. All is well with the team. She also told us that the AMS 5/16 Passey Expedition is at the 11,000' camp as well. They are doing well and
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from Dave MacLeod Climbing
First ascent of The Fat Groove 8a, Steall Two good sessions at Steall with Tweedley and Boswell. On day one I mostly put in bolts and scrubbed and was knackered. Net day, after baby class it was time to get actually climbing. I equipped a big diagonal groove cutting across my route Stolen and Running into the last part of Trick of the Tail (which is now bolted to the niche below the perma-wetness with permission from Mark at great 7b+). Being a groove I figured some bridging would be possible, which it was
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from SAIS Lochaber
After a couple of slightly colder days (sunday and monday morning) it was back to mildness on Aonach Mor today. There had been a fair bit of fresh snow over during those days, but this was thawing. I managed to get this picture just before it started chucking it down with rain. A few bit of debris mainly from cornice collapse and ice fall could be seen below the crags.
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