
Winter Assessment, Scottish Mountain Leader Training Scheme.
10.45 - 13.30, 4.7km, 380m. Glenmore, Cairngorms, Scotland.
Broken cloud base above 1300m, winds light. Adrian Liddell and four candidates. Coire Cas car park, chair lift to Ptarmigan cafe, GR 000038, Stob Coire an t-Sneachda, Coire Domhain, base of Hell’s Lum Crag, GR 997012, GR 993007 - dug snow hole near Garbh Uisge Beag (GR 993007). Crossed old avalanche debris nr Hell’s Lum from Feith Buidhe.
Area :
The Cairngorms
The Cairngorms are ‘a little piece of the arctic in Scotland’ according to the SMC Munros Guide and the area contains many of the tallest peaks in the East Highlands. Ben Macdui (1309m), Cairn Gorm (1244m) and Braeriach (1296) are probably three of the better known and the whole area is full of steep corries and high plateaux. Access to the mountains is typically from Aviemore or Braemar.