Covered Routes in Coire an T'Sneachda

Snow covered buttresses

Today we walked into Coire an T'Sneachda to see what the routes were like, we climbed up to the bottom of Aladdins Buttress and looked at both Doctor's Choice IV 5 and Patey's Route IV 5. Both were chock full of soft snow and all the cracks were full of ice. After needing to dig to find belays and chip out ice place gear we decided this would be a long day of digging and scraping so we downclimbed and walked out to save ourselves for a day on The Ben tomorrow.