I am lost blogger without my digital camera! A tumble whilst ski-ing meant it had to go to have the technological equivalent of open heart surgery so for a few weeks I was back to old fashioned film technology - hence the lateness of this post.

On the 2nd March I finally got to do Golden Oldy on the west side of Aonach Mor - it's a super grade II. Long, with a definate alpine feel, great mountain setting, at no time is it scary but the exposure is such that you need to think a couple of times; we moved together on the majority of the route.

We took the first climbers gondola from Nevis Range finished the route by two and andhad time for coffee and cake at the Snowgoose mountain resturant at the top gondola station before heading home. Now that is what I call a civilised mountain day! But we couldn't quite forget we were in Scotland - we had great weather all the way up the hill but once we topped out, the weather closed in and we had to walk on a bearing to get off - spurred on by the thought of those delicous cakes! For a quick link to weather conditions go to the Outdoor Capital's weather page.

Despite the mild weather at sea level people are out there doing things - check out Alan Kimbers site for more current news of what is being climbed.

Anna