Hi all,
Looking for a little advice! We are a group of 6 from Ireland currently doing our own take on "Not the West Highland Way" and want to finish the trip by going up Ben Nevis via the CMD Arête. However, we've heard there is still quite a lot of snow around which is causing a little concern and would like some advice.
For context, we are all fairly experienced hikers (for Irish standards) but have no specialised winter training and our experience in snow would be limited to hiking in the Wicklow Mountains on the rare occasion it snows, which isn't exactly treacherous provided you have good clothes and a little bit of sense. We are also all carrying quite big packs, 15kg+, as we've been wild camping the whole way.
Any advice on current conditions or some info as to how technical and/or exposed the CMD Arête is would be greatly appreciated!