Tim Houldey - 106088

logs 745

Awards Completed

MCI MLW RCI ML
Member Of

Winter Walking Record

Details

Date : 11/02/2018

Duration : 5-8 hours

Style : Leader / Supervisor

Type : Quality Mountain Day (QMD)

Weather : Heavy snow - poor visibility

Wind : Gentle breeze

Camping Type : N/A

Nights Camping : 0

Mountains :

Flagged :

Description

Heavy snowfall overnight and the start of another JSMTC course meant a slightly later start once the roads had cleared.
Up into Stob Coire an Lochan via the standard route, into the Coire to examine snow conditions, observed evidence of fresh avalanche debris and watch a spindrift avalanche release down SC Gulley. Due to conditions and wind on the ridge we did not summit. Heavy snow fall obscured visibility and erased our tracks in making the walk out interesting.

Area : Glencoe South (Loch Linnhe To Loch Etive)

The southern side of Glen Coe includes some very well-known mountains and can be split into two groups; the ones you can see from the A82 and the ones you can’t. Included in the former group is Buachaille Etive Mor, Buachaille Etive Beag, the Three Sisters and the Ballachulish Horseshoe, and in the latter, three Munros between Glen Creran and Glen Etive (Sgor na h-Ulaidh, Beinn Fhionnlaidh and Beinn Sgulaird). With huge amounts of climbing and walking in summer and winter, this area is also home to a large cairn built for Queen Victoria, or so the story goes. Includes all major peaks above 600m.

Location

Marker
Leaflet Tiles © Esri — Esri, DeLorme, NAVTEQ, TomTom, Intermap, iPC, USGS, FAO, NPS, NRCAN, GeoBase, Kadaster NL, Ordnance Survey, Esri Japan, METI, Esri China (Hong Kong), and the GIS User Community
Loading