from SAIS Lochaber
Over the past few days there has been a fair bit more snow on the hills of Lochaber. Yesterday (Monday) was quite a mild day with rain at lower levels and lots of heavy wet snow higher up. Today was colder with snow showers through the day. The picture shows conditions at the snowpit site (a South-Easterly aspect at an altitude of 1130m). By probing from the bottom of the snowpit, I discovered that there is more than 4 metre of snow on this slope.
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from SAIS Northern Cairngorms
In places the milder temperatures have begun to consolidate the snow surface layers but a weak soft layer was sitting beneath this where we dug the snowpit at 1070m on a N aspect.
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from SAIS Northern Cairngorms
There has been snow showers on North winds and cold temperatures for the last 24 hours. We left the summit of Cairngorm to go and dig our snowpit on the South side noticing 3 walkers wandering around on the summit. They were still wandering aimlessly when we returned half an hour later. "Which mountain are we on" they asked "is it Sneachda we seemed to be lost can you show us the way down!?" "Yes do you have a map and compass so we can point out your location?". "No" was their somber reply. "Oh ...
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