Winter Round-up

This last winter was a remarkable one on a number of fronts up here in the Highlands. We had a whole heap of snow of course, about 6 -7 feet in total down here in Boat of Garten with a lot more up on the mountains. It accumulated to a depth of over 3 meters [...]

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Night Navigation Weekend – give your mountain navigation a real boost

For many, when it comes to mountain navigation, it’s bad visibility they fear. Getting lost is usually the result of an error in either distance or direction becoming greater than the range of visibility. The result is the objective is missed and with no idea of how they’ve gone wrong and hence how to proceed [...]

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Aviemore and the Cairngorms – winter snow and ice conditions report on 02.04.10

Winter Returns with a vengeance After about a fortnight of thaw conditions, the N. Cairngorms have received their heaviest dump of snow in the last 11 years! It has snowed continuously for 56 hours with at least 48 hours of heavy snowfall. On the hill at Ski car park level there are numerous 8 – [...]

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Aviemore and the Cairngorms snow and ice conditions report (28.02.10)

We have snow!! Scotland’s ski resorts came 4th in the world on the 24th for the amount of snowfall. Here in Boat of Garten we have had about 55cm of snow over the last 3 days. On the hill they have had between 1.5 to 2m of fresh snow in the ski area! 70 cm [...]

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Aviemore and the Cairngorms – snow and ice conditions

Report 7: Hi All, We are presently going through a relatively mild period. The freezing level has risen to the top of Cairngorm (1245m) accompanied by strong winds. The thaw doesn’t appear to be to serve at the moment though. The cover is now patchy as viewed from the North which is to be expected [...]

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