Monday, 23 January 2012

MORE SNOW AND ALMOST BLUE SKIES

The 5 Minute window of blue skies and sun today! The Ben in all it's glory
Beautiful cornices and snow aretes on the CMD arete
More arete wonderland
Fantastic rime ice
There had been more snowfall overnight down to around 500m. With a decent weather forecast of cold, dry, light winds and even some sunshine I headed up to Carn Mor Dearg for some photo opportunities. Around mid day the sun and blue skies were flirting with Ben Nevis but that only lasted less than 5 minutes. The rest of the day was in cloud. To compensate the conditions along the CMD Arete were fantastic. Lots of beautiful rime ice and good solid snow with just a little fresh stuff. I saw no one all day and no one had been along the arete so a very nice time, just no blue skies. By the time I descended I too had a good coating of rime ice. Great stuff.

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