Docjames wrote:Why do people think this sort of activity is acceptable?
It generally shouldn't be attempted by most folk, but with the right skills, right equipment, in the right place and at the right time, a controlled sitting glissade is a fun way of descending a snow slope.
I did consider the Red Burn route once, but decided that it was too risky and cramponned down instead.
I was once nearly wiped out by someone doing an uncontrolled lying glissade at the head of Coire Odhar in the Cairngorms. He was going very fast and had no ice axe. With the convex (at that point) slope, I never saw the result.