sherbet1967 wrote:Hi.....has anyone been up Conic Hill in the past couple of days?,just wondering how icy it is!?
I haven't been up Conic Hill in a while, but I should imagine it is either very icy indeed, that kind of sheet-ice which means if you're not wearing crampons and clutching an ice-axe, you will slither to a terrible death, or it will be a horrific morass of mud, which sticks to the boots like glue and spreads slowly up the body until the hiker is covered from head to foot and looks like a refugee from the Somme. Neither of which appeals. I was up near Killin recently and the ice level was just a few hundred feet above the village, with the road over the pass to Glen Lyon impassable for ordinary cars (unless you like exploring ditches). But in the past few days the nights have been very frosty so ice will have built up to quite a degree.
