Working up in Applecross for a couple of weeks, distant views of Skye and Torridon with a very arbitrary winter conditions report as follows!!
Skye - new stuff fell certainly on Friday and Saturday (snowline Sat morning was well below 300m, with fresh snow covering Dun Cann on Raasay, but this unfortunately dissipated through the day.) Skye looks to have had a fair covering again, and there's still good cover in many of the north/east facing coires by the looks of it.
Torridon - again, fresh snow over last couple days, and even by late afternoon this was still hanging in on the south facing slopes of the bigger hills.
Applecross - road was open up until Thursday, but was shut with snow yesterday (before new snow there was virtually none to be seen over the top of the pass - would imagine it's fine again now as today has been pretty dry. Though a brief snow flurry as we coasteered in the swell was entertaining, if unexpected...!). Didn't get a look into Beinn Bhan coires but the thaw has certainly stripped everything "open" to the elements up to and over the 600m mark.
Drove up through Glen Shiel on the Tuesday last week, some impressive full depth avalanches on the north facing slopes of the South Glenshiel Ridge. Still lots of snow in the north/east coires, but most of the ridges looked to be stripped, very little evidence of any snow on the south side of the Five Sisters, and lower west arm of the Saddle was bare.
Hoping to get up to Torridon next weekend when work is done, any conditions info before then appreciated and will try to post up anything I find.
Dry, sunny, settled, colder weather for the next few days....sea level expedition with work for me unfortunately!!!
Cheers,
Gordon
