A day for photo’s. ( and Drumlins)
26th February 2025
A beautiful day on the hills today. Definitely a day to get onto the tops and have a good look at what is going on, as well as taking plenty of pictures. So I went up onto Liathach today to have a look around.
In all honesty, there is not really much fresh snow on the mountains, even though they do look quite nice and “cosmetically” white above 800 metres, due to some snowfall over the past two days. What little fresh snow there is has bonded well to any existing older snow, not that there is very much of that either ! Tomorrow will be mainly dry, with the possibility of some very light showers. Looking ahead, during Friday, it is forecast to stay fairly cool, but the winds will strengthen slightly later in the day prior to the arrival of some precipitation on Friday night.
Creag Dubh today. Pretty, but very little real snow coverage.
Looking up into Coire an Laoigh on Beinn Eighe. Very cosmetic snow, just a dusting really.
Liathach, todays objective.
Looking into the upper reaches of Coire Liath Mhor on Liathach
Looking West along the ridge of Liathach.
Looking East along the Beinn Eighe ridge.
A dusting on Beinn Dearg and Beinn Alligin, behind Liathach.
A panorama, from Liathach on the left round to the Beinn Eighe ridge.
Beinn Damh. I often use this as a good visual representation of where the snow level is, as it’s just about bang on 900metres.
Drumlins… Just behind the Ling Hut. Iv’e never realised how prevalent they are, but the light just caught them right this afternoon, showing what a striking geological sight they are, and how many of them there are.
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Andy Heald
26th February 2025 10:16 pm
Not exactly drumlins. Rather ‘hummocky moraine’, a landscape associated with the melting of a stagnant glacier. Coire a’ cheud chnoc (aptly ‘corrie of a hundred hills’, although there are many more than a hundred) is probably the best example of them in Scotland.