Mild and windy
12th January 2026
After some heavy overnight rain it was a mild and very windy day with a few showers which fell as snow only on the very highest summits. The loss of snow is very noticeable at low levels but the mountains remain mainly white.
I spotted debris from 3 avalanches on Liathach which probably all occurred yesterday (Sunday) afternoon as the temperature rose.
Slioch briefly in the sun.
Beinn Alligin
Sgurr nan Fhir Duibhe and Creag Dhubh, Beinn Eighe.
Liathach from the East.
Looking across Upper Loch Torridon to Beinn Damh.
Debris from a wet snow avalanche on Liathach that probably happened yesterday (Sunday). It ran to an altitude of 100 metres above Torridon village.
Another shot of the debris.
Avalanche path on Liathach above Torridon village.
High water level from rain and snowmelt in the A’ Ghairbhe.
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Alistair Docherty
13th January 2026 4:01 pm
Wow, interesting shots of the avalanche above Torridon. I skied that gully on the morning of the 4th. I dug a pit halfway up and It was pretty much 2m of graupel. It was very hard to get any kind of column to stand on its own at all. Made for a great ski. I was wondering if in big winters of the past, the buildings would have been threatened by an avalanche from that gully. Particularly, the school right below!
torridonadmin
13th January 2026 4:27 pm
Hi Alistair. We don’t have any other avalanches recorded in that gully although that definitely doesn’t mean that there haven’t been any.
Graupel can be great to ski and mainly becomes a weakness when there’s another layer on top of it.