{"id":14873,"date":"2016-05-03T11:49:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T11:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=14873"},"modified":"2016-05-03T11:49:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T11:49:19","slug":"weekend-avalanche-forecasts-continue-for-caingorms-and-lochaber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/weekend-avalanche-forecasts-continue-for-caingorms-and-lochaber\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend avalanche forecasts continue for Caingorms and Lochaber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to recent heavy snowfall, high accumulations of snow and low temperatures on the mountains, the SportScotland Avalanche Information Service (SAIS) will continue to provide a forecast for the Northern Cairngorms and Lochaber this weekend. SAIS said there was currently the potential for avalanches on steep east-facing slopes.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cornice-break.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cornice-break-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"cornice-break\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cornice-break-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cornice-break-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cornice-break-390x260.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cornice-break.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe SAIS told the BBC &#8220;Late winter snow conditions above 1,000m (3,280ft) on north through east to south facing slopes in the Cairngorms and Ben Nevis and Aonach Mor areas may present a hazard. Additionally, isolated snow fields remain on north to east aspects above 750m (2,460ft) in most areas and will continue to present a slipping and falling hazard if firm and icy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The forecasts will be issued this coming Friday and Saturday and can be checked at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sais.gov.uk\/\">SAIS website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to recent heavy snowfall, high accumulations of snow and low temperatures on the mountains, the SportScotland Avalanche Information Service (SAIS) will continue to provide a forecast for the Northern Cairngorms and Lochaber this weekend. SAIS said there was currently the potential for avalanches on steep east-facing slopes. The SAIS told the BBC &#8220;Late winter snow conditions above 1,000m (3,280ft) on north through east to south facing slopes in the Cairngorms and Ben Nevis and Aonach Mor areas may present a hazard. Additionally, isolated snow fields remain on north to east aspects above 750m (2,460ft) in most areas and will<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/weekend-avalanche-forecasts-continue-for-caingorms-and-lochaber\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14874,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14873\/revisions\/14874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}