Lofty Clear Spells
5th January 2025
(Above) The crags and gullies of the Post Face of Coire Ardair. Emerged out of the mist and gloom of Glean Spean to clear skies this morning and some early watery winter sunshine. Really clear air and great for photography. The Post Face looks quite white but a lot of what you see is thin, superficial snow. Mustn’t grumble though.
(Above) The NNE-facing crags of the Inner Coire of Coire Ardair. In heavy shade and cold here all day.
(Above) The Pinnacle, Easy Gully and the Post Face of Coire Ardair. A frosting of snow but there’s no disguising the quarry-like nature of the lower reaches of Easy Gully.
(Above) Looking East from the top of the River Roy catchment towards The Window. Very bouldery at the moment in the base of this well-frequented bealach.
(Above) Looking NW across the sea of clouds in lower Glen Roy and Glen Turret. Some sun-illuminated clouds obscuring more distant mountains on the west coast. Great visibility up high.
(Above) Looking down to Lochan a Choire and Coire Ardair. High cloud rolled in later in the morning and robbed the light..
(Above) Coire Chriochairein ‘early doors’. These E and SE-facing aspects are flattering to deceive snow-wise, aided and abetted by bright sunshine. Generally thin cover except for the last 10-15m of the coire rim where older, denser windslab lies, underlain by a weaker layer in places. The snowfall in the weather forecast is expected to accumulate on SE to S aspects as new windslab by the end of the day but mostly above 950m.
(Above) Looking down into Glean Spean this afternoon. Binnean Shuas and Beinn a Chlachair prominent in the distance. The low-lying mist didn’t relent at all down nr Loch Laggan during the day.
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