by gaffr » Sun Jan 09, 2022 11:21 am
Being open to the various weather systems that can hit us from all directions....well around six of them? Snow can disappear rapidly from the terrain. At 300 metres here yesterday the snow cover was thawing during the day and by the afternoon slush was the word to use. This morning what was left had frozen into something quite different. Maybe the same situation around Dundonnell.
My visit to Sail Mhor twenty or so years ago was during a stormy spell of weather and being in the area for the week-end we were looking at a top that we could reach directly from the road. The roadside wee waterfall was spraying beyond the usual stream.....I felt that we all knew we were in for trouble further up with the windspeed resulting in saying to ourselves that only wat to reach the cairn was to crawl at the exposed summit. A bruising day out on the Corbett.