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Coire Cas car park
20
Mar
20th March 2018

Mini Beast from the East

The weekend saw again some winds from the east with some snowfall and spindrift. The road up to the Cairn Gorm ski area was therefore impassible. On Friday we walked up to the Sugarbowel car park and then down to the stream. There we did some avalanche awareness and ice axe arrests. After that we...
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Winter Mountaineering inversions
15
Mar
15th March 2018

Mixed Weather, Great course

The last 5 days has seen some really mixed weather. On Saturday we had milder weather with some spindrifts. Because of this the snow gates to Cairn Gorm Mountain were not open. Therefore we went to Drumochter, which had some really good snow conditions. The snow was a bit soft, but really good for doing...
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winter skills course
05
Mar
5th March 2018

Winter Skills Course – 3-4 March 2018

This weekend we had some mixed weather. The avalanche report reflected all the fresh snow we received in the last few days. On Saturday we went up to Coire na Ciste for building emergency snow shelters and checking on the avalanche conditions. We also did some ice axe arresting and cutting steps on some neve...
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Coire An-t Sneachda
01
Mar
1st March 2018

Beast from the East

The start of the 24-28 February winter mountaineering course saw some really good weather and mostly low avalanche risks. However, the beast from the east with Siberian winds was looming. By the last night when we were out snowholing it hit us. In the morning we had zero visibility and temperatures of -10C or colder....
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Winter Skills Course
21
Feb
21st February 2018

Winter Course 17-21 February 2018

This weeks course was fantastic with some good winter weather. Monday has stripped some of the thinner snow lower down, when it rained at summit level, but high up it managed to consolidate very well into nevee at most areas above 800m. The snowholing from Tuesday was really good at Ciste Mhearidh. There were some...
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Winter Skills Course
01
Feb
1st February 2018

Winter Skills Course 27-28 January 2018

The weather was quite variable with high winds on Saturday and some mild conditions creeping up to summit level on Sunday. Even on higher ground the fresh snow was well bonded. Had an excellent group this weekend and everyone has learned a lot of new skills and it was pretty good fun.
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16
Jan
16th January 2018

Winter Skills Course 13-14 January 2018

Even though it was very windy with gusts up to 60mph on summits we managed to find some good, sheltered areas to practice all the skills on our winter skills course.
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Cairngorm Winter
08
Jan
8th January 2018

More Wintery

Went up to Ciste Mhearad to have a look at the snow conditions high up. There seems to be a quite good cover of deep snow on northerly aspects. This would be due to the high southerly winds we had over the last week or so. One in Ciste Mhearad I noticed that the stream...
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02
Jan
2nd January 2018

White Out conditions at Cairn Gorm

Today was a bit of a wild day at Cairn Gorm with high winds from the south, spindrift and the clouds at about 800m. Visibility was pretty much zero and I could only see anything standing out within 20-40m. Being at the front meant I saw only white.
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Biod an Fhithich
10
Dec
10th December 2017

Winter conditions in Kintail

The snow this weekend was excellent, because the low pressure system “Caroline” has brought some heavy snowfall. Snow came down from Thursday night till Saturday morning and covered those bare hills in a white coating. The snow is in some sheltered places up to knee deep and in most places ankle deep. We should get...
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