James Walton - 68082

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Winter Walking Record

Details

Date : 24/03/2019

Duration : 5-8 hours

Style : Equals

Type : Quality Mountain Day (QMD)

Weather : Clear - sunny - good visibility

Wind : Gale force wind

Camping Type : N/A

Nights Camping : 0

Mountains : Cairn Gorm Cairn Gorm - Fiacaill Coire an t-Sneachda

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Description

Practice day. Dug bucket seats, bollards and buried axes to side of corrie cas.
Then navigated over the top of Cairngorm in near white out conditions, dow to the place where all the snow holes are. Carried out snow pit surveys.
Navigated over to the ptarmigan restaurant in gale force head wind and near white out conditions.

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.

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