Sorry B.A.nana I missed that I was in such a hurry to post 
One Christmas there was a group of us away and three of us had got that book for Christmas and could not be roused from it!
Since people are posting pictures then why not:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30189432@N00/4341874274/in/photostream/
Don't be put off from your original plan, just see what the weather forecast is near the time and what snow conditions have built up in the lower valleys over the preceding weeks, if any. As Roky Erickson song, "don't fall down" :-).
good snow paul
B.A.nana, I'll keep the options open, one thing I will be doing is getting some of the books above and learning about the weather, in the hope that I can make a more informed decision at the last minute.
and of course I'll be careful, because otherwise 'you're gonna miss me' etc 
I can see why you were hooked after a traverse of the Five Sisters of Kintail. These pictures were taken about this time last year. Great mountains for a day out.
You guys got views! We got some glimpses of Ben Fhada but that was about it, still glorious though.
Looks like this is turning into a photo thread!
Esat ridge of Bidean nam Bian, above Glencoe:-
GOOD!
here`s another tow, both taken in Feb in Scotland, but different years, and how different teh degree of snow cover is. Sgurr Thuilm 2005, deep wind crusted fresh snow, Ben Lawers hardly any snow around but big temp inversion , walking above the clouds on frozen ground.
JB sgurr thuilm feb 2005 by jamesld8, on Flickr
ben lawers range feb 2008 by jamesld8, on Flickr
Looking over to Creag Meagaidh - March 2009
DSC00251 by druidh_dubh, on Flickr
Miscellaneous summit - more times than I can remember...
Cracking Creag Meagaidh snow forms!
day after a big snowfall Stob Coire Easain (Laggan)
stob corrie easain by jamesld8, on Flickr
Stob Binnein by druidh_dubh, on Flickr
Druidh,
Brilliant Creag Meaghaidh sastrugi.
R1013514 by stuartie_c, on Flickr
Perfect snow by stuartie_c, on Flickr
Southern Cross by stuartie_c, on Flickr
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Laggan 28 by stuartie_c, on Flickr
Gearing up. by stuartie_c, on Flickr
Ben Nevis by stuartie_c, on Flickr
I'm liking the frost on the cross
DSC00170 by druidh_dubh, on Flickr
And what about this one??
DSC00171 by druidh_dubh, on Flickr
That was from a fence in the Ochills. There was massive sheets of the stuff.
I've got some Five Sisters of Kintail photos, I think these are on the Saddle or that other exciting ridge traverse, the name I can't recall.
#2 looks more like the Forcan Ridge.....
you can just about see the glory halo on the clouds at point of Ben Lawers summit:
on Ben Lawers above clouds by jamesld8, on Flickr
Just a wee update: My folks treated me to a day's winter skills course with Ben of Inspire Mountaineering up on Aonach Mor.
We didn't have time to do anything super-thorough but he talked us through the basic warning signs for avalanches, showed us a few variations of the ice axe arrest, and spent a good bit of time on a steep snow field with the crampons and the axes. 2 layers of Merino and a Gore thermal top under my waterproof seemed to do the trick, as did my Endura leg warmers underneath some decent Spray Way overtrousers a picked up from Nevissport.
Unfortunately this revealed the inadequacy of my 3 season boots and basic crampons with no front points, so its back to Outside Edge in Oban for some Grivel crampons and Scarpa Mana boots!
Hoping to do a day's walk (I didn't have enough space for my camping gear in the luggage) from Ballachulish, up Gleann an Fiodh to Sgorr a'Choise then staying up high to Fraochaidh, before descending to Duror and checking out a bothy I'd heard about in the vicinity.
Glad you enjoyed it, and had a good time.
My first winter climb was Great Gable in Army and Navy gear and a rented ice-axe - and then camped overnight on Scafell...
Not sure if they still do them, but my (old Berghaus AB) rucksack has a full length inner and when emptied can be used as a sleeping bag in an emergency.
13thfloormonk - MemberJust a wee update: My folks treated me to a day's winter skills course with Ben of Inspire Mountaineering up on Aonach Mor.
We didn't have time to do anything super-thorough but he talked us through the basic warning signs for avalanches, showed us a few variations of the ice axe arrest, and spent a good bit of time on a steep snow field with the crampons and the axes.
Nice. Its a whole heap of fun 
Well, since its that time of year again, some pictures, one year on:
Stunning when it's conditions like that!
Beinn a' Bheithir?
Wahay! Good spot, I had photos of the arete between the eastern top and the first munro but that would have made it too easy 
The last one is Fraochaidh from last winter, seemed appropriate as its next door to Beinn a'Bheithir.
Managed to make a bit of an epic out of Stob Coire Odhar the next day. The guy in charge (to clarify, he wasn't 'in charge', just the most experienced guy in the group) yomped off down the wrong way and we all followed part of the way until someone thought to check the map and realised we were on the wrong ridge (north ridge instead of west). We shouted to him and he shouted something back before heading off into the mist, traversing the steepish north face of the hill between the two ridges. As we had lost sight of him by this point and didn't fancy following his footsteps into the mist and spindrift we took our own route across and down the hill before reaching the bealach at the top of Coire Toag and descending back to Victoria Bridge in the dark 
Actually a really good day but we were all a bit confused by the first guy's actions, he did at least wait for us at the car park at the end.
Easy spot - the Pap in the first photo gives it away!
Stob a' Choire Odhar and Stob Ghabhar has to be one of my favourite routes. On a good day, the views across Rannoch Moor are immense and there's a wee bit of technical interest climbing onto and along the Aonach Eagach - especially if there's been some snow.
Oh oh oh
Makes me want to go and play
Nice pics
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