Mild and Wet

11th March 2016

Such a contrast to yesterday. Rapidly diminishing snowpack; snowline around 650 metres. All the signs of thawing conditions are obvious. Not much change expected.

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Liathach. Signs of falling ice and rock debris on the gully run-outs.

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Liathach; Pyramid Buttress and Toll a’ Meitheach. Some ice hanging in there, but for how much longer?

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Even less snow remains on the more coastal hills of Beinn Alligin and west end of Liathach above Loch Torridon.

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Cloud descending onto the top of Beinn Bhan, Applecross, ahead of a particularly heavy spell of rain.

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Cornices will be prone to collapse during the thaw, although this cornice on Sgurr a’ Chaorachain is pretty stable at the moment.

 

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