Ice Climbing - Guinness Stout

Climbed guiness gully and Stout today. Generally brittle and picked out iceon GG, plastic ice on steepest line of Guinness Stout. High test is in but appears stiffer than previous years. Gully overhead on Guinness has 50-100cm of heavily faceted snow with a well beaten path up it. 2 small squals of snow came in depositing 1-2cm without wind.