from SAIS Southern Cairngorms
Heavy snow at the top of Glenshee this morning. Road conditions were not great with a couple of trucks stuck for some time. The sign reads "Welcome to Aberdeenshire". At the main profile site for today the fresh snow from last night and early today is clearly visible. In sheltered locations the drifts are considerably deeper.
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from The Adventure Blog
The Outdoor Retailer Summer Market kicks off tomorrow with the Open Air Demo, but officially gets into full swing on Thursday when the expo opens its doors to show off the latest and greatest outdoor gear coming from manufacturers in the months ahead. To help us sort through all of the nifty items that will soon be sucking money out of our wallets, The Gear Junkie has posted two previews of what to expect from the show. Part 1 of the GJ preview can be found by clicking here . In it you'll find a host of
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from The Adventure Blog
Up north, in the frozen environs of the Arctic, the Catlin Arctic Survey team continues to plug away at their mission, despite incredibly bad weather and sub-zero temperatures. While the Ice Base Team conducts their research and takes readings of the environmental conditions there, the Explorers Team is heading south towards Greenland, checking the health of the ice on the Arctic Ocean as they go. One of the members of the squad, Explorer Team leader Ann Daniels, has just passed a significant milestone.
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from SAIS Lochaber
Blowing snow on the Nid ridge. A drift of fresh snow. Winter made a bit of a reappearance today, with heavy showers falling as snow above about 800 metres. Above about 1000 metres there were some quite substantial drifts, and some fresh cornice formation. A small cornice triggered avalanche was observed in the Back Corries of Aonach Mor. However, looks like a return to mild conditions tomorrow.
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from The Adventure Blog
The arctic continues to challenge the polar explorers at every turn with massive ice fields, open leads, and negative drift all taking their toll. For one of those explorers, enough was enough, while others continue to their way north. We'll start with Christina Franco , who was evacuated from the ice on Friday after spending three days trying to find a way around an open body of water. Christina traveled east, rather than north, for that entire time, and still couldn't find a way to cross that lead. It
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from Happiegrrrl Climbing
I like to plan ahead. That said, come New Years 2011, I expect to be reminiscing about how incredible 2010 has been for me. The first three months, unfortunately, have not been. In some respect, "stagnation" would be an apt word for some areas of my life. Up until a few days ago, I had been seriously struggling with feelings of "How did I get here? How do I work this?"(ala Talking Heads "Once in a Lifetime" lyrics). Winter was about work for me - I started to expand my t-shirt empire... More aptly, my ...
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from The Adventure Blog
The polar explorers are finding plenty of challenges in their struggle to make progress in a northerly direction. For some, they continue to battle negative drift, while for others, the drift seems to have lessened , but now it's back to rubble fields and a new twist, whiteout conditions. Whiteout is exactly what Amelia Russell and Dan Darley faced today as they began their daily trudge. Amelia reports "zero visibility" on their trek, and they were immediately faced with a 30 meter lead, which made the ...
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from James Pearson
It seems somewhat ironic that it was a return trip to England of all places that enabled my first real outdoor climbing experience in over a month. My move to Innsbruck was motivated by the idea of climbing every day on glorious, difficult routes and boulder problems, and up until October that was precisely what I had done. Then however, came something I hadn’t bargained for (don’t ask me how something so obvious could have slipped my mind ;), the snow! Despite my best efforts to persevere, eventually
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from SAIS Northern Cairngorms
Six separate avalanches were noted today on Westerly and North-West aspects. One was triggered on the Chais Headwall . There has been a lot of drifting and new windslab is overlying the soft snow from yesterday. This is making the snowpack very unstable and the picture below demonstrates the windslab failing on isolation on the soft snow beneath . Drifting on across the Chais ridge on a strong Easterly wind. Recent avalanche debris below Jacobs Ladder...not triggered by the skier who has just made a ...
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from Alpine Dreams of a Desk Monkey
Determined to get out last Saturday, somehow, someway and with someone, Penny and I left Edinburgh at 13.00 hours and scooted south to Hepburn. Penny had never been before, so I felt like the relative expert (ha ha). In short, I knew where the boulders were, how to get there and that the grades can be a bit random. Predictably, there was nobody else climbing there. The bracken had shot up since I was last at Hepburn in June. The midges were out, but bearable, and most importantly the rock was dry in spite
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