Day 2 in the Cairngorms

Second of my 2 days of winter skills in the Cairngorms for Glenmore Lodge. Today I wanted to get a little sliding in if possible, get onto some steeper ground and do some navigation. 3 out of 3 achieved. We walked in to Coire an t Sneachda, did a little self arrest work below the Mess of Pottage, the team led themselves up to Windy Col then we navigated to a foggy Cairngorm summit and back down via 1141.
Take care on the snow folks, its bullet hard and unforgiving of a slip.

Some 'interesting' rope-work around today. The 2 people walking up the apron in Coire an Lochain with 50m of rope strung between them..... what? The 2 leaders who had just run a lovely little self arrest session below the Mess of Pottage- which part of tying yourself to 4 shakey novices each and heading up the fall line towards Windy Col over that ice patch and onto the icey snow seemed a good idea? Unless you were practising something very specific and out of context with the Scottish Winter environment the point escapes me....!? Tom Patey's definition of 'moving together': "2 or more people simultaneously falling to their doom". Tying yourself to another person with no means of attachment to a hard and icey slope is not a great idea and rarely if ever necessary in Scotland, particularly with the length of Northern Coires routes/approaches/sections of steep ground. Rant ends.