If i get home before daylight...

I assume that the last comment was from Emma, and i suppose i should do as I'm told.

The past few days seem to have flown by, nothing much happened last week, well not until Friday anyway. I packed up my kit for Scotland after Fridays tutorial and got to Tapton car park on time, only to be left waiting for an hour and half before the mini bus turned up. After about seven and half hours drive we arrived in Scotland, somewhere. The bunkhouse was very plush compared to most I've stayed in, but we didn't didn't take much notice of the furnishings, just found a bed and hit the sack.
After an early start, and lots of faffing we we're back in the bus on our way to the Cairngorm car park. After a short trek we we're into the snow (or what was left of it). We spent the day pr acting basic winter skills, such as kicking steps and moving in snow, we then moved on to ice axe work, cutting steps, cutting snow buckets and ice axe arrests. We must have slid down the slop 100 times!! But all great fun!

After getting back to the bunk house getting out of our wet gear and getting hot food in our stomachs we kit the pub, luckily next door, for a few pints and a general jolly.

The next morning we were again heading out to the Cairngorm car park after a lot of faff. We headed to a different part of the corries not far for the first though. we practiced using crampons on rock snow and ice as well as placing ice axes in ice. After that we headed further up into more snow to practice setting up belay points in the snow, and just more sliding (accidental).

We arrived back in Sheffield shortly after 1.00 Monday morning having had a great weekend as well as made some great new friends :-)