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Winter Climbing Skills 1

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On day 1 of a west coast based Winter Climbing Skills course. We did (rather optimistically) have a look at the north face of Ben Nevis and discuss avalanche awareness and making sensible mountain decisions, before beating a hasty retreat to The Ice Factor for a couple of hours ice coaching (in the relative warm and dry).

Ice Factor

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Today as the weather turned out less than clement, we headed to the Ice Factor where I gave Simon and Sarah a crash course in ice climbing.