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Finally there was a break in the high winds which seem to have been battering Scotland over the past few weeks. I took the oppertunity to get up on to the summit of Aonach Mor. From the plateau I saw evidence of a large slab avalanche in Coire an Lochain. In this picture I have marked the crown wall (or what I could see) in the picture above in red. I estimated this to be over 200 metres long. There was plenty of debris right down to the loch. This avalanche probabley released sometime on Wednesday during
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from SAIS Lochaber
The original plan today had been to head over to the col between Aonach Mor and Aonach Beag to see if there had been any avalanches on the latters North side. However, the visibility was poor and a did not think I would see anything from the col, so I decided to stop near the actual summit of Aonach Mor and investigate the snow in one of the Gullies at the top of the West face. On the way back it did clear slightly, which allowed me to take this shot of the South Side of Coire an Lochan. Although it is ...
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