We’ve just had three fantastic winter days in Scotland. Blue sky, hardly any wind, and lots and lots of ice.

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15 Images | Aonach Mor, Ben Nevis, Creag Meagaidh, Easter

Another night sleeping in the back of the car, another 4am alarm call, and another world-class classic Scottish winter route. This time on the mountain that some might consider to be the “crucible of Scottish winter climbing”, the north face of Ben Nevis.

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7 Images | Ben Nevis, geo-tagged photos, injuries

It’s a long way to the West Highlands, even from the Lakes. However, with such a great weather forecast and the recent days of cold weather the conditions looked awesome, so the long drive and not inconsiderable fuel costs was well worth considering. But we wanted to go somewhere new to us – Creag Meagaidh [...]

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10 Images | Creag Meagaidh, geo-tagged photos

By Friday I was already shattered after a really busy week . But somehow, I was still really looking forward to getting out climbing on Saturday.

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We met up with our friends from Leeds, Helen and Kris, for a winter-walk up Wetherlam via Wetherlam Edge. Wetherlam Edge is a steep rocky path in summer, but in the frozen snowy conditions we’ve got in the Lakes at the moment, especially with the strong freezing wind from the east, it promised to provide [...]

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Following our reports of easy access to the Ghost, the others decided they must go in.

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4 Images | Canada '12

We hardly made it along highway 1A, so deep was the fresh snow and I was starting to have doubts as regards the wisdom of this trip.

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5 Images | Canada '12

The Icefields Parkway was not in very good nick. Not so much the road but the others couldn’t see the lovely scenery.

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3 Images | Canada '12