Afternoon snowfall.
3rd April 2026
A bright morning with easing Westerly winds and summit temperatures averaging around minus 3 to 4 Celsius. The most recent windslab accumulations have developed a friable breakable crust, beneath is soft unconsolidated snow which is deep in some places. Boulder fields are tricky to cross just now due to being covered in a a glaze of friable ice and soft unsupportive snow between. Below 1000 metres, paths are mostly clear with the odd stretch of soft thawing snow. Older wind scoured snow is firm and icy. All change during the afternoon with the onset of persistent snowfall above 700 metres, this cleared later on.
Coire an Lochain, “The Great Slab” can be seen in the middle with the obvious glide crack running along the top of it.
Lurcher’s Gully.
A snow craft group at the bottom of the Fiacaill Coire an t-Sneachda ridge.
Coire an t-Sneachda.
Mess of Potage.
Fiacaill Buttress.
Aladdin’s Couloir, Buttress, and Fluted Buttress to the right.
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