Ben Nevis is a special place to climb in winter. It has so much history surrounding the routes and the scale of it is relatively unique when compared with many of the popular Scottish winter venues.

Dave Chapman (Nightwatch) and Scott Webster (Marketing) headed up for a few nights inthe CIC hut with a view of doing some on the Ben's classic routes. The CIC hut was refurbished last year and now includes two toilets, a drying room and a large kitchen. It has been really nicely done and has a very alpine feel to it.

Conditions were less than ideal with a large dump of snow falling over night on Monday. This meant a lot of the classic ice routes were dangerous or too difficult to get to.

Instead Dave and Scott stuck to the ridges and climbed Tower Ridge, North East Buttress and Ledge Route. These are all classic mountaineering routes that are well worth doing and provide pleanty of interest along the way.

posted by glenmore @ 12:55 PM