SC & NC Gullies Stob Corrie - Glencoe All in easy nick with kevlar neve. SC lacked ice at the normal crux but as it is only short it was fun. soloing

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Clear and cold.

All quiet. Nobody around which was nice, Is April snow and ice Scotlands best kept secret SSSSShhhh!!!

Davy Gunn

davygunn at madasafish dot com

Bidean nam Bian, started from car park next to glen coe village turn off. Walked up to coire nam beith then climbed up to bealach an t-sron. Here we encountered snow that was good enough to climb up with crampons on.

Followed the ridge up to stob coire nam beith and encountered high winds. Still big cornices on the ridge all the way along to the summit and to stob coire sgreamach. Plenty of snow on all north faces of the summit ridge. We didn't descend as planned into the lost valley as planned as we didn't all have ice axes, this looked a good route up for those suitably equipped for snow and ice climbing. Instead we descended from stob coire sgreamach onto Beinn Fhada and into coir Elide.

This is a good route for those not confident enough are equipped enough to descend into the lost valley from the bealach, it provided some good practice for glissading. We walked safely to the road at glencoe avoiding carefully the alt coire elide gorge, this looked dangerous and could be a problem in poor visibility. Don't go up Bidean nam Bian unless each of the party has an ice axe and is suitably equipped!

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Rainned heavily in glen coe before start but cleared up and cloud level rose, severe winds on top and grew stronger as the day progressed.

Broken snow level on north facing aspects at around 800 metres. Big cornices on top, looked stable but difficult to choose a path in places, we followed other safe looking footsteps in places. The snow had a reasonable amount of support.

adrian

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