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Cosmiques Arete in January? Conditions.

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 coolbert 04 Nov 2014
Hello all, has anyone done Cosmiques In January?

Any pictures and thoughts would be great.

Ta muchly.
 Dave Searle 04 Nov 2014
In reply to coolbert:

It'll just be dead snowy pal. But ultimately fine. If you don't mind the cold!
In reply to coolbert:

Nipped up it when the skiing was shit two years ago. Was fine- keep in mind that again the skiing shit so not a great deal of snow had recently fallen.
 woollardjt 04 Nov 2014
In reply to coolbert:

Yeah did it one winter season, so much snow on it and no one had been on it for a while, took a long time

But loved every minute of it

Bloody cold though
 Pete Houghton 06 Nov 2014
In reply to coolbert:

"Any pictures and thoughts would be great."

Yo,

Super-snowy, but still fun. The last chimneys, on the north side, are particularly chilly, bring a change of gloves.

http://imgur.com/hhKQXEH
robapplegate 06 Nov 2014
In reply to coolbert:

Did it years ago, not much snow and dead straight forward, good fun. Crampons got in the way a bit sometimes.
 Toby_W 06 Nov 2014
In reply to coolbert: very cold and the bits that were normally an easy walk took an age wading through chest deep powder snow that felt rather (very) insecure. The night before I think the temps dropped below -25C and some. It was very beautiful and were it not for the other two climbers stuck in the AS hut with us the previous two nights due to a storm we had the place to ourselves.

Have fun.

Cheers

Toby

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