ANOTHER WILD WINTERS DAY

Axe arresting

Avalanche assessment

Deep drifts

High winds

Assessing the options from the cafe

High winds once again the biggest feature in The Cairngorms. Helen and Max out with me for a 2 day course. We met up at the excellent Glenmore Visitor  Centre cafe to chat through the options of the day. After an hour or so of looking at weather and Avalanche forecasts we decided to head up the ski road to Coire Cas carpark. Most folk had either turned around or on their way out off the hill, beaten by the 60+mph winds. We decided to venture a whole 5 minutes from the cafe to run through some axe skills and axe arresting. We looked at assessing the snowpack, finding a relatively easy shear in the area, this at just 700m. The temperatures rose slightly during the afternoon. We reconvened in the Pinemartin Cafe down at Glenmore (3 cafes in 1 day)  for a recap and another coffee!
More heavy snow forecast tomorrow,  the winds a tad lower so maybe we can venture further.