Zig Zags on Gear Aonach

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Low flying Hercules

 
Looking at Gear Aonach North East Face

 
On the first mixed step

 
Anna and I on the summit ridge

Today I took Richard and Anna to the Zig Zags on Gear Aoanch in Glencoe. The idea of the day was to undertake a mountaineering route using direct belays and end up with a ridge walk along into Stob Corrie nan Lochan.
The weather was amazing with the sun on us most of the day and still cold enough for the snow to be dry and powdery.

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