Tuesday 25 December 2007

25 Dec Glencoe - building an appetite for my Xmas Dinner






Spent a few hours this morning building an appetite for my turkey. Jane and I walked into Coire nan Lochan. The weather started clear and there were a dozen or so people headed into the Lost Valley. Lots of evidence of old water ice on the path in but it was defintiely thawing. I nipped up Dorsal Arete - having it to myself was a novelty! There were blobs of ice and some very firm snow and turf on the ridge. Descending Broad Gully I met a lone mountaineer making rapid progress up the hard snow there (there was a little isolated windslab near the top but not enough to concern me). Boomerang gully was bare and turfy at the nearrows and the steeeper butresses looked a little black and bare to be justifiable. It will be warmer for a few days now but the colder weather will return at the end of the week.

5 comments:

Gerald Davison said...

Good on you Alan (and Jane!). We went to Snowdonia today and got wet and blown away on Moel Siabod - no snow for us - bah!

Guy Steven said...

nicely done al, good to see you out and about on xmas. im keeping a close eye on what your all up to. Cant wait to get back up there. Have a good new year.

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