Snow, Ice, & Mixed Climbing
Featured below are some awesome winter climbing ideas and objectives to help spark your imagination. Really it just scratches the surface of whats possible. Please get in tough with your ideas, and lets go climbing!
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Scottish Snow & Ice
Snow and ice gullies graded Scottish III-IV
Depending on where you’re based, classic routes like:
Ben Nevis – Number 2 Gully, Green Gully, Comb Gully, Tower Scoop, Good Friday Climb
Glencoe – Crowberry Gully, SC Gully, Twisting Gully, No.6 Gully
Creag Meagaidh – Staghorn Gully
Beinn Bhan – March Hare’s Gully
Sgurr Mor – The Ressurection
Beinn Dearg – Penguin and Emerald Gully
December – March
1:1 – £350/day
1:2 – £175/day/person
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Scottish Winter Ridges
Snowed up rocky ridges graded Scottish II-IV
Depending on where you’re based, classic ridges like:
Ben Nevis – Tower Ridge, North East Buttress, Castle Ridge
Glen Coe – Curved Ridge, Aonach Eagach
Skye Cuillin Ridge
Decemeber – March
1:1 – £350/day
1:2 – £175/person/day
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Scottish Ice & Mixed
Iconic ice and mixed routes graded Scottish IV – VII
Intense and demanding affairs, full immersion into the Scottish winter garb.
Can be a suffer fest if you’re into that kinda thing! I am.
Depending on where you’re based, routes like:
Beinn Eighe – Central Buttress, East Buttress, Kami Kazi
Beinn Bhan – Silver Tear, Gully of the Gods
Liathach – Poachers Fall
Ben Nevis – Minus Gullies and Orion Face, Observatory Ridge and Buttress, Indicator Wall, Smith’s Route, Gargoyle Wall
Glen Coe – Deep Cut Chimney, Crypt Route, Crest Route
Creag Meagaidh – Smiths Gully, South Post Direct, The Wand
Cairngorms – Fingers Ridge, Savage Slit, Deep Cut Chimney, Sticil Face, Scorpion, Route Major, Mitre Ridge
December – March
1:1 ratio
£350/day
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Continental Waterfall Ice
Iconic ice and mixed routes of all grades
La Grave, Cogne, Kandersteg, Rjukan, Setesdal, British Columbia
December – March
1:1
£450/day
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Alpine Ice
Classice snow and ice couloirs in the high alpine, routes of all grades
Chamonix, access on foot or ski.
December – April
1:1
£450/day
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