{"id":447,"date":"2018-02-27T15:59:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T15:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nunmc.org.uk\/w2012\/?p=447"},"modified":"2019-03-13T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T11:59:45","slug":"loch-lomond-febuary-2018-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nunmc.org.uk\/w2012\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Loch Lomond Febuary 2018 continued"},"content":{"rendered":"
Our club trip to Loch Lomond, Scotland in early\r\nFebruary had some very snowy but fine days.On one\r\nsuch day four of our more intrepid walkers,Chris, David, Mo and\r\nLes set off for Ben Vane 915 metres in what proved to be\r\nmountaineering conditions.\r\nBen Vane had alluded our members on previous occasions due to deepsnow conditions but this was a very fine day and there was an easytrack to the base of the mountain.Temperatures were how ever belowfreezing with a forecast for -6 C on the summit plus the wind \r\nchill effect.\r\nInitially there was a path which ascended steeply over\r\nincreasingly frozen rocky ground.  From the half way stage the\r\nmountain was plastered with snow, layered in slabs and care had tobe taken to asses the avalanche risk.  Crampons and ice axes weredeployed as the ground steepened.\r\nThere was lots of step kicking and there was some easy scrambling over and around rock steps. Towards the top the wind picked up andcare was needed on the icy surface as the slope steepened. \r\nVisibility however remained good. As the route up was so steep a\r\nsafer descent was made down the north ridge and then down easier\r\nsnow to the Loch Sloy dam.  A top day.\r\n\"\"<\/a><\/pre>\n
A photograph of our members David Foster, Mo\r\nRushton and Les Ball on the slopes of Ben Vane, \r\nLoch Lomond, Scotland on 9th February 2018.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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