Friday 7 February 2014

Fiacaill Ridge

  
   Today Gwilym took me up Fiacaill Ridge, a grade II ridge which seperates Coire an t-Sneachda and Coire an Lochain.  However, upon approaching the ridge, we came across a very large group (19 people!) walking in a line, which was rather amusing.  See the picture on Gwilym's blog here.


The route itself was of good quality and was really enjoyable to climb, I seconded Gwilym up the ridge, short-pitching some harder sections, and moving together on the easier ones.  The pitch in the picture below was fantastic; we climbed this pitch with one axe, which meant that I had to think a lot about my feet and how to balance myself - often resulting in some akward bridge moves!



   The day finished with some navigation round Corie an t'Sneachda towards 1141 where we removed our crampons whilst having a nice chat to some skiers who were headed towards Ben Macdui, the visibility finally improved on the way down to the car park with some beautiful sunshine behind us.