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Snow and sleet over the tops. 11 May 2013 | 06:41 pm
Mild conditions at present with a forecast for cooler temperatures and more snow down to 600 metres during the early part of next week. The main event at present is the potential for the Great Slab ...
Mild with a spring snowpack 10 May 2013 | 07:20 pm
Looking down Coire Raibert with Ben Macdui in the distance Coire an t-Sneachda still holding on to some large snow fields and snow filled gullies. Coronation wall and the Cas Head Wall
Warm, Sunny but Very Windy 5 May 2013 | 07:51 pm
Looking into Coire an t Sneachda Recent avalanche debris due to cornice collapse below cliffs diminishing snowpack The pictures do not tell the whole story of course - in this case the winds on the...
Very windy - becoming milder. 4 May 2013 | 07:55 pm
Heading toward the saddle - a frozen Loch Avon below. A lone skier heading toward Cairngorm Summit on the South side Coire an t Sneachda with large cornices overhanging slopes Generally a very good...
Winter still hanging on! 3 May 2013 | 08:51 pm
A glimpse of the Cairn at Summit of Fiachail a Choire Chais New snow on all aspects above 950 metres, thinly covering many rocky areas though. Very little wind, quite muggy !. Could not see enough to...
New Snow on the Tops 27 Apr 2013 | 07:00 pm
Looking South toward the Saddle New accumulations of deep snow on East through South to South-West aspects, in steep and convex places especially, this is unstable. A very soft weak layer at around ...
April Blizzards and Whiteout Conditions 26 Apr 2013 | 09:30 pm
Navigating in a whiteout on the Cairngorm Plateau Instabilities in the snowpack on a South-East aspect at 1100m
Winter Saturday on Cairngorm 20 Apr 2013 | 08:44 pm
Summit temperatures on Cairngorm were still below freezing on Saturday morning and it was windy. Failures were identified in the surface windslab during field observations. In exposed locations sno...
Light winds and sunshine 19 Apr 2013 | 08:14 pm
Deep drifts have developed on Southerly aspects after recent snowfall Looking towards Beinn Mheadhoin Good cover on the plateau Looking West from Cairngorm Summit Still looking wintry in the Corr...
A change in the weather 13 Apr 2013 | 09:38 pm
10mph winds first thing this morning and by mid afternoon nearly 60mph. Billowing clouds over the Cairngorms as winds increase My skis were soon buried from drifting snow!
