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 AlH 25 Feb 2014
…the next time anyone asks what condition its in just show them Mike's pic. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=711073755589619
 Hay 25 Feb 2014
In reply to AlH:
Aye, try digging through that with a nomic.

 Paul249 25 Feb 2014
Do folk ever deliberately trigger cornice collapses to allow routes to become more accessible by jumping on them, obviously when on a very good belay??

I heard this a couple of years ago but wasn't convinced whether it was true or not...

By the way, I'm not suggesting that anyone goes out and does this !!!
 Heike 25 Feb 2014
In reply to AlH:

Yeah, I was thinking of taking a battery powered mini-digger!
 Jon Wylie 25 Feb 2014
In reply to AlH:

Point 5 gully, Grade 1/ scottish VS.....
 3leggeddog 26 Feb 2014
In reply to AlH:

shame about all the anti terrorism laws, we could have a load of fun on the ben armed with a bit of semtex
 george mc 26 Feb 2014
In reply to AlH:

These are starting to look more like seracs than cornices...
 CurlyStevo 26 Feb 2014
In reply to george mc:

How big do people think those cornices are? At the widest point it looks to be more than 5 metres maybe 10?
 Lukeva 26 Feb 2014
In reply to CurlyStevo:

Bigger, surely with foreshortening? Was hoping to tick this in a few weeks, perhaps no! Give it til say... June?
 Merlin 26 Feb 2014
In reply to AlH:

Exit on the right?
 neilwiltshire 26 Feb 2014
In reply to Paul249:

I normally just climb with nitroglycerin in my backpack.
pasbury 26 Feb 2014
In reply to AlH:

Any non-facebook pics of them? Must be some whoppers in the Cairngorms too?
 jonny taylor 26 Feb 2014
pasbury 26 Feb 2014
In reply to jonny taylor:

Thanks but still blocked by bloody work filter. I'll check at home.

<jealous>
 Jon Wylie 26 Feb 2014
In reply to jonny taylor:

> http://saisncairngorms.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/low-level-rain-high-level-sno...

Holy sh#t! Mind you they look easy enough to traverse around, somewhere near rothiemurchus forest...
 CurlyStevo 26 Feb 2014
In reply to Lukeva:
Yeah could be more than 10 metres at it's widest point, given that its hundreds of metres from where the photo was taken and still looks massive!

We need several days of hard rain to sort things out for late season!
Post edited at 16:23
 Andy Nisbet 26 Feb 2014
In reply to CurlyStevo:

> We need several days of hard rain to sort things out for late season!

Let's not go that far. You can end up with the cornice intact and bare rock at the bottom.


 DaveHK 26 Feb 2014
In reply to Paul249:

> Do folk ever deliberately trigger cornice collapses to allow routes to become more accessible by jumping on them, obviously when on a very good belay??

More common amongst skiers than climbers as they tend to start from the top.
 Lamb 26 Feb 2014
In reply to DaveHK:
> More common amongst skiers than climbers as they tend to start from the top.

Someone ought to strap a pair of skis on then!
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 jas wood 26 Feb 2014
In reply to Lamb:

Anyone know if it has had an ascent this season ? surely if not this is quite unusual for March (almost)
 drunken monkey 27 Feb 2014
In reply to AlH:

There are gonna be some MASSIVE full depth avalanches soon enough. A few more slides near enough down to the CIC hut?
 Mike Pescod 27 Feb 2014
In reply to jas wood:

I don't think any of the classic big ice climbs have been climbed this winter. Minus Three Gully was climbed a couple of times, The Curtain and Vanishing Gully as well. Nobody has been high up in Observatory Gully and even Coire na Ciste has had very few visitors.

Mike
 Mike Pescod 27 Feb 2014
In reply to pasbury:

The full set of pictures from that day is here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/abacusmountaineering/sets/72157641616620523/

Mike
 Mike Pescod 27 Feb 2014
In reply to Merlin:

It looks like there is very little cornice at the top of Observatory Buttress so exiting on the right should work out well. You'd want to know that the cornice is well frozen and stable before spending several hours underneath it though!

Mike
Tim Chappell 27 Feb 2014
In reply to AlH:

Crivvens
 Merlin 28 Feb 2014
In reply to AlH:

We could have a UKC cornice competition this season (not dissimilar to village vegetable growing competitions) - takers?
 Michael Gordon 02 Mar 2014
In reply to Merlin:

Largest cornice surmounted, with photographic proof I presume?
hkstu 03 Mar 2014
In reply to neilwiltshire:

Youv'e been watching too many bad movies about K2
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