Date: 10-3-'18
Location: Ben Hope and Meallan Liath (the 601m job between Ben Hope and Ben Loyal,
not the other one with the longer name.
)
Snow level: 300m.
Ground from 10-300m frozen at 7:30 but back to squelchy by 17:00.
Snow cover complete apart from boulders and crags, hard enough to walk on above about 500m in sheltered areas but more like 650 on the east side of Ben Hope. (I only tried the east side of Hope.) Below that it was soft with footprints 20cm+ and some deep drifts. Crampons a definite advantage, and I'm tempted to buy some snowshoes and go back for a blast on the gentler slopes. Lochs at 400m were frozen over.
There's a walk report on the way.