Christmas Day.
25th December 2025
Beautiful, cold crisp day at at Creag Meagaidh. Limited snow cover – mainly on N to E aspects above 950m – but what snow we have was frozen and hard throughout the day. Serious potential runouts abound at the moment so if your intention is to cross any steeply inclined snow then ice axe and crampons will be essential equipment. The Creag Meagaidh summit plateau snow cover is also fairly patchy now, and elsewhere dun-couloured mountains predominate.
(Above) Looking west towards Sron a Ghoire, Puist Coire Ardair, The Post Face of Coire Ardair and the gun-sight shaped bealach known as The Window. Hard frost in the glens this morning (-5 degrees) but a mild +4.8 degrees at summit level – classic inversion conditions. All old snow remained frozen hard all day.
(Above) Narrow band of old snow around the NE-facing Coire an lubhair Mor close to the remote-feeling Geal Charn 1049m.
(Above) Meall Coire Choille Rais (snow-fringed summit left of centre) and the highest part of the Creag Meagaidh summit plateau. Patchy cover up high here which is expected to remain this way for the new few days or more.
(Above) The east-facing mega-coires of Beinn a Chaorainn in the far distance. Binnean Shuas nearest the camera.
(Above) Beinn a Chaorainn’s East Ridge in profile.
(Above) Sneak peak west towards the back bowls of Aonach Mor, with Ben Nevis on the left.
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