Windslab developing

12th January 2015

Often it’s only on the drive to work that the plan for the day is fine tuned!

Below Coire nan Gall taken from the A86 alongside Loch Laggan.

Plumes of spindrift billowing from scoured hillsides plastering crags and forming bands of slab just below ridgelines on NE and Easterly aspects – gave us a clue where to look for instabilities at any rate!

Coire nan Gall from the A86

Coire nan Gall from the A86

Long distance close up of above - spindrift forming slab below ridgelines

Long distance ‘close up’ of above – spindrift forming slab below ridgelines

Easy shears showing up in recent layers at todays pit sites on NE aspects

Easy shears showing up in recent layers at pit sites today on NE aspects

Comments on this post

  • Grant Duff
    12th January 2015 5:32 pm

    You do have an enjoyable drive to work and so beats the rear end of a car that many of us have! Jealous.

    • meagaidhadmin
      12th January 2015 5:42 pm

      Sometimes there’s much truth in the saying ‘better to travel in hope than to arrive’……..

      Many thanks for your comments.

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