West Highland Winter Munros – a walking holiday with Mountain Innovations

Trip review – Argyll, Scotland March 2012 This trip was our first west coast trip away during the winter season. There was no way we could predict that this would be the mildest/least snow covered winter across Scotland since 1981, which fortunately did not detract too much from the trip. It would have been the [...]

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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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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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