Snow has been lying thickly even in Inverness for the past week, so apart from a few runs around town with my Inovates which grip well in the snow ice encrusted pavements, any forays into the hills require skis or snow shoes. Just to prove my theory I slogged in to look at a crag today with a cliff-base of about 550m on Sgurr na Feartaig. Not enough ice and the fact it took 4 hours to walk the 5km from Craig put paid to any climbing ambitions. Still, the ski-ing has been fantastic and looks to stay that way for a while as most forecasts indicate no real change in the weather.
The demoted Munro near Morusig.
Ski-ing the Farr access road with Owen on Saturday.
Before we got that huge dump I walk/ran over Cul Mor and Cul Bheag with Dave and Jonathan a couple of weeks ago. We lost Jonathan on Cul Mor who having already bagged Cul Bheag opted to check out the sub-marilyn near Cul Mor 'just in case'. Despite dire warnings from the guidebooks the ground between the two was reasonable and the final slog up Cul Bheag eased by a motorway of a path. It was one of those days which will stick in the mind for a while and minutes were spent on the top marilyn-spotting. The easy-paced round trip of 4.5h surprisingly straight forward.
Cul Mor from the path to Cul Bheag.
