In reply to goatee:
Nice report (for us).
When was this exactly? I headed to Aviemore one weekend in early Feb hoping to get a few hills done: managed one and failed on another with waist deep snow. That was frustrating but I only had to travel from Glasgow (sorry)!
Your report startes with 'recently the eeather had been superb' which doesn't gel with my recall of Jan / Feb in Scotland, at least on those many abortive days where I didn't even leave Glasgow