For years i`ve been going up to Scotland either walking, cycling, backpacking or rock climbing but i think my favorite activity up there is winter mountaineering and low-grade ice climbing. I usually go up around early February and hope the weather is good as the conditions can vary enormously but you can always find something to do if you adapt your plans to the weather at the time, more often than not you will end up having a memorably epic day out in the wild Scottish mountains and come back exhausted to a hot shower, a great bar meal and a few pints of beer and get up the next day and do it all over again.