Its been a busy few days with limited time for blogging so here is a round up. Last Wed I was ski touring in Drumochter with Andrew. We went up Geal Charn (only a 20min walk from the road), did 2 diff descents from A' Mharconaich one from the ridge and one from the summit, we had spare time so headed back up and over Geal Charn to get a descent on the far side before back to the road. Then 2 days with Lochaber college students.We had a day in the Cairngorms heading over 1141 into Coire Raibert and around to Lurchers Gully, pretty windy on the plateau but a lovely ski down Lurchers and skis on all the way to the carpark. Then for day 2 we were at Drumochter, this time on the east side, we skiied up Cairn na Caim and down Coire Cam for some transceiver practice and back up and down Coire Uilliem. There were some very big cornice features about not always where you would expect them so caution is required. However there were lots of skiers enjoying the conditions and all the gully lines were skiable.
The weekend was a Ski Performance Scotland course. We chose Cairngorm for both days, despite it being a bit windy the hill was gradually opened up on Sat and we got a variety of terrain. On Sunday we had some fresh tracks low down first thing followed by some fresh tracks in the white lady later on. There were some queues but good skiing on both powder snow and variable conditions!
Skinning back up after skiing into Coire Cam, note the cornices!
Nice tracks in Lurchers
Ski Performance Scotland - Fresh tracks
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