Cold and Clear
29th January 2021
Covid -19
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Lingering snow and cloud cleared Eastward by mid morning to give a crisp and sunny afternoon. Fresh snow above 250m. Unstable windslab in evidence in sheltered locations at higher elevations, mainly on South-West to North-West aspects.
(Above) Snowshoes (or skis) were essential today otherwise it would have been very tiring on foot wading through deep drifts and breakable crust at lower levels. Drifting snow is visible on the mountains in the background, in the fresh Easterly wind. Left to right; Sgurr Breac, Toman Coinnich and A’ Chailleach. The shoulder leading up to Toman Coinnich above the loch is Druim Reidh, the location for the previous two days observations.
(Above) Spindrift highlighted in the glen. Drifting snow all but ceased by the afternoon as the wind eased.
(Above) Looking South-West to Slioch and the Torridon mountains.
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