cmarcol wrote:Avalanches will always be top of my fascination/fear list!
The Cairngorms are the place for spectacular avalanches ~ I remember sitting on a rock by the side of the frozen expanse of Loch Etchacan, looking across the ice at the snow-plastered cliffs on the other side. The sun was shining on the glowing white gullies and enormous cornices. Suddenly and silently, huge blocks the size of buses peeled off the cornices and fell into the loch, smashing the ice and sending up cascades of water. The sound rumbled across the frozen loch and echoed around the hills. Great boulders and showers of stones and tons of gravel fell too. I decided to re-evaluate my decision-making paradigm regarding climbing frozen gullies above Loch Etchacan...