As always the Scottish weather does not conform to the normal seasonal patterns, and a whole heap of snow has fallen.  Never one to miss a chance to ski a group of us headed over to Aviemore to go skiing.

We loaded our skis and boots onto our backs for the long walk up, above is us passing through the Chalamain Gap and could at last see the snow and where we were headed- Braerich.  Once we had climbed half way up Sron na Lairige we could finally get the weight off our backs and get the skis on, a lovely feeling to have a light load on your back again.

Above is us climbing the shoulder of Coire Bhrochain to where we wanted to see if we could ski West Gully.  When we got to it we were disappointed to see that it was too full of snow and the entry was an extremely steep 6m cornice and the build up below that was just too steep for us to ski.

Pondering what to do we headed down a south facing face that gave great but short lived skiing on good sprig snow

Scott showed us that although he hasn’t had much time on the skis, he still has the skills to pay the bills.  from here we crossed the Coire and climbed back up the steep snow back up to the saddle, at first skinning, and then later when it got too steep we had to put the skis on our backs and climb up it by foot.

It was then a simple matter of going back out the way we came.  It felt like forever walking out.  None the less a great day out skiing and was even better as I thought that my skiing was done for the season.  With this new snow I think there will be a couple of ski days left!!!!!