Northern Cairngorms Blog & Mountain Info

Clouds race over the summits in the gale force winds.

The winds were so strong that pinwheels had developed on horizontal terrain

Mess of Potage – difficult to see in the photo but wet snow instabilities were widespread on approach slopes below

Aladdin’s buttress

Coire an t Sneachda, a strong head wind walking in.   Savage gusts blew us over several times at the start of the boulder field so we gave it a miss and retreated for shelter!