In reply to mrbird:
Was in on Boxing Day but didn't stick to what we had planned. Approach path is iced up had to catch my friend a few times, trail up to the col soft snow half a foot or so deep. Approaches to the base soft snow but not covering the rocks cornices building which changed our plans. Based on what we found in the gully we went up before heading to the stuic frozen turf some areas of ice rock black with powder in the cracks.
Probably changed by now though