Forgotten Twin, Aonach Mor

Carm Mor Dearg and Ben Nevis

A busy day in the Twins

Olly on the lead

 Me on the lead

Today Olly and I grabbed a gondola and chair lift ride up the hill to have a go at some routes on Aonach Mor. Out two original route choices on North Buttress had massive cornices above them and a rope was in situ on Icicle Gully (not sure why but someone clearly had to run away from it). In the end we joined the queue on Right Twin but after waiting 30 mins for a team to clear pitch one we down climbed and headed onto Forgotten Twin II and headed up there. There was a team up at the cornice digging through and throwing copious amounts of snow at us but we appreciated their efforts.
The snowpack today had a shallow surface layer that was not greatly bonded and traversing round the bottom of some of the routes had some pockets that were very unstable.