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Buachaille avalanche

Buachaille avalanche


Postby gman » Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:25 pm

Pics of Coire na Tulaich after an avalanche, the usual route to Stob Dearg

http://saisglencoe.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/coire-na-tulaich-avalanche.html
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Re: Buachaille avalanche

Postby Cairngormwanderer » Fri Feb 21, 2014 8:50 pm

An area highlighted just the other week by MCofS Safety Adviser Heather Morning as a terrain trap. What a graphic illustration of the truth of that. Just a good thing it happened at night when no-one was on the hill.
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Re: Buachaille avalanche

Postby Stuart Angus » Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:33 pm

Infamous black spot............avalanches all the time..........as CW says, at least it happened at night this last time and nobody got hurt.
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Re: Buachaille avalanche

Postby Caberfeidh » Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:43 am

Stuart Angus wrote:at least it happened at night this last time and nobody got hurt.

Cairngormwanderer wrote:Just a good thing it happened at night when no-one was on the hill.


We wont know that for sure until Spring ! It looks as though the glaciers have returned... :shock:
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