In reply to Ron Walker:
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> I've got a photo of Coire an t-Sneachda from sometime in the eighties where the Mess of Pottage was almost banked out and only the main buttress of Aladdin's is visible from the steep snow slopes on either side.
Ah, very interesting. I'll have to confess that I have only done a handful of winter routes of grade III or above, so I'm no seasoned expert of anything like it. But one of my first mixed leads was The Haston Line,graded III,4, on the Mess O' Pottage. It seemed, shall we say, rather adventurous in places (in a good way, you understand) including the initial traverse before the corner, the corner itself, and the ground above that. Directly compared with Invernookie, for example, it was way more serious. In banked-out condition I imagine it was a rather less worrying proposition.