I had a flexi Friday and no one to play with, so a quick phone call to Matt, a very small dose of persuasion and he was with me.  So over to Aviemore we went.  The aim was a different climb to what we did but when we got there there was three parties already in it , so we took five steps to the right and decided to climb Goat Track Gully in Coire an t-Sneadcha.

Above is Matt getting his stuff sorted, as you can see we could not see a great deal, but there was no wind and it was surprisingly warm.  So off we went with Matt leading the first pitch

This is a fairly easy route, but more than enough challenge for a pair of idiots who do not do a great deal of winter climbing.  I got the second pitch with a short ice step, this concentrated the mind and loosened the bowls. 

The climbing was not too bad, once we had both got our heads around what we were doing,  thankfully this route sees a lot of traffic so all the bits where there was gear (sparse) it had already been dug out, a normal belay looks some think like below

Finally we got to the top, a bit tired, but more relieved to be alive and actually finishing it.  Scottish winter climbing is a love hate thing, you hate it when you are doing it, love it when you have done it.

The rest of the pictures of the climb can be seen here