Windslab
24th February 2020
(Above) Broken ground of heather and snow leading into Coire Choille-Rais. A complex distribution of windslab around at the moment with variable winds and persistent snow showers. The hope was to catch N, NE and E aspects on the way in and get a look at some high (above 850m ) SW and W on the back wall of the coire.
(Above) Reality check….. persistent snow showers and poor visibility today meant above 600m – unless I stumbled across it the chance of seeing very much was pretty limited. Underfoot – NE and E aspects had moderately bonded slab.
(Above) Weakly bonded slab developing here on a Westerly aspect at 800m – on fairy easy angled terrain.
(Above) Back wall of Coire Choille-Rais. Some reasonable ice build up developing on the crags -Â formal pit today was on the slope just below ice fall, to right of photo
(Above)Â A fairly shallow affair (thankfully!) new slab overlies hard icy layers
Further windslab development is expected above 850m in this next period, mainly on NE and E aspects …. with optimum slab building 25 -30mph winds and cold conditions
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