In reply to mountainmadness:
YEAR 2000 - Ben Nevis, 20th March 2000
YEAR 2008 - Point Five, 21st April 2008 and Smith's Route, 16th April 2008
YEAR 2009 - Coire an Lochian, Cairngorms 12th April 2009
YEAR 2010 - Cairngorms 20th May and well into June 2010, all the gullies were still complete for skiing
YEAR 2011 - Nice easy climbing in the easier Cairngorm gullies, 27th March 2011
YEAR 2012 - Great Gully, Cairngorms 25th March 2012 and Cairngorms 1st April 2012 and then we just went skiing everywhere in the Cairngorms for the next few weeks!!!
Lots more on my YouTube Channel going back to YEAR 2008 and photos on my other old websites going back to 1998...
Cheers Ron