Perfect hillwalking conditions. The season? You decide!
1st April 2025
(Above) The Drumochter Pass. Looking S along the A9 towards the snow remnants in Coire Creagach beneath Sgairneach Mhor. Definite snowlack hereabouts.
(Above) A’Mharconaich wearing a ‘tache of snow high on its eastern aspect. You’d really have to go out of your way to put your foot on snow in the Drumochter hills at the moment. Scant? I think so.
(Above) Geal Charn 917m summit cairn/shelter. Another one for the collection!
(Above) Loch Ericht and Ben Alder. Perfect winter?/spring?/summer? conditions today. Milky sunshine and a cooling wind from the SE made for very comfortable hillwalking. In terms of snow cover, the hills are a little more wintry-looking in a few places to the west and south of Creag Meagaidh – depending on aspect and altitude.
(Above) Lancet Edge sunlit, left of centre, Geal Charn 1132m and Aonach Beag 1116m, as viewed form the summit of Drumochter’s Geal Charn 917m
(Above) A distant view towards the southern and eastern aspects of the Creag Meagaidh massif. Sparse snow cover with patches extending down to about 800m in a few favoured places.
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