Grey day on the Grey Corries

Ken: I was back out today with Robert, whilst working for Abacus Mountain Guides. I think that we managed to find the cloudiest area of Lochaber today: the Grey Corries. We hit the cloud at about 800m, whilst making our way up the northern flanks of Stob Choire Claurigh, and didn’t see anything until we dropped back to 800m, on the north ridge of Stob Coire Easain, having been over Stob Coire an Laoigh.

Conditions underfoot were a mixture of soft snow, very soft snow and no snow, although not a lot of the latter on the main ridge. Crampons weren’t required. A clear night tonight should help firm the snow up for tomorrow morning, but it looks to be a warm and sunny day, so the snow will soften quite quickly.

Over on Ben Nevis, Gareth was out working on NE Buttress yesterday, and reported reasonable conditions.