Chestnut-mare wrote: Which area are you debating? I suppose being fairly new to the mountains I’ve been doing the closest & easiest to Edinburgh & not taking all aspects into account. I do a fair bit of research but I’ll be even more picky in these conditions!
Will check forecast again later, but east is looking best, so maybe Glenshee area. Might take the touring skis, in which case summits are not really a priority.
Chestnut-mare wrote:Agreed! I was extremely disappointed & kept hoping it was just gusts that I could work through but it just kept battering me. The annoying thing was the forecast had been for winds of 20/30 so wasn’t expecting it to be so tough.
In some weather conditions (especially high pressure) winds can be locally much stronger than forecast. We had a real battle on the south ridge of Lawers in January (came close to turning back) but the top of Beinn Ghlas was only half the windspeed.