view from the house we were staying at. the mountain on the far right is Ben Nevis, the highest in the UK. We'd be doing a route on that later in the week. As you can see the weather (considering its a Scottish winter) is fantastic.

3 clouds

the day i went skiing, the weather crapped out a bit but was still bareable

Dogs > Cats

Glen Nevis

I love sunshine

the same day, a little further up though.

see the spindrift fly down the mountainside

our big day doing the route on Ben Nevis. walking up to the start of it. can you spot the climber in this picture? it certainly gives it a sense of scale, Ben Nevis is a fucking intimidating place.

the Misty Mountains

yup.

the joys of winter mountaineering..

there is certainly a bonus to visibility like this though; you dont see the huge drop awaiting you.

when we hit the summit the wind was roughly 50/55mph with a windchill factor of at least -12°C. thats relatively average for this time of year, if you were to stick around you'd be dead in about an hour or so. my mum and a party of friends got stuck up there this time 6 years ago in 100mph+ winds at about 1am after doing the same route. its an increadible story of survival, many of them wrote about it after. i may post a link, dunno. anyway, it wasnt nearly as bad for us.

There was a whiteout on the summit, and when you are following just a compass bearing knowing youre surrounded by cliffs, theres never a more stupid time to get the camera out when you should be holding your ice axe waiting for the leader to fall through a cornice. go me!

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