12/27: Junkyards on a balmy day: Surprisingly dry and most everything is in, except the curtain right below the little tree.
12/28: Professors: In spite of morning temps of -4C the first and second tier were spewing water. We walked around it. All other pitches offered dry lines (see Patrick’s report yesterday) with the last pitch being a bit more on the wet side again.
12/28: Coire Dubh: Some visiting European guides reported good and very dry conditions. They found the initial ice pitches very brittle and they didn’t use crampons from the first rock pitch (dihedral) on.
Cheers,
Jorg Wilz
Mountain Guide
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