{"id":15720,"date":"2016-12-12T15:17:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T15:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=15720"},"modified":"2016-12-12T17:39:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T17:39:25","slug":"avalanche-forecasts-start-friday-17-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/avalanche-forecasts-start-friday-17-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche Forecasts start Friday for 17 December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish avalanche forecasts will start for the season on Friday, with the first forecast for 17 December.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/avalanche.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/avalanche-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14043\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Sportscotland Avalanche Information Service (SAIS) provides a daily avalanche hazard report for six Scottish areas \u2013 Lochaber, Glencoe, Creag Meagaidh, Southern Cairngorms, Northern Cairngorms and Torridon. The service usually runs until mid-April but is dependent on the snow conditions. Anyone planning a hillwalk during the winter is advised to check the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sais.gov.uk\/\">avalanche service<\/a> in the same way as they would routinely check the weather forecast and plan their route accordingly.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2m-depth-snow-on-summit-plateau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2m-depth-snow-on-summit-plateau.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2m-depth-snow-on-summit-plateau.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2m-depth-snow-on-summit-plateau-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2m-depth-snow-on-summit-plateau-390x293.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish avalanche forecasts will start for the season on Friday, with the first forecast for 17 December. The Sportscotland Avalanche Information Service (SAIS) provides a daily avalanche hazard report for six Scottish areas \u2013 Lochaber, Glencoe, Creag Meagaidh, Southern Cairngorms, Northern Cairngorms and Torridon. The service usually runs until mid-April but is dependent on the snow conditions. Anyone planning a hillwalk during the winter is advised to check the avalanche service in the same way as they would routinely check the weather forecast and plan their route accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15720","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\/15720","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=15720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15723,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15720\/revisions\/15723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}