This is not the sort of thing you usually hear from Scotland….
Patroller’s Blog “Snow Joke”:
“Back Home after pulling out from the hill at 11.00am. The ploughs were struggling even to keep a single track on the down road. The wind was not really the problem but the volume of snow falling out of the sky, I knew we should not have tried to wire up the cannon this week.
Anyway the rothiemurchus official weather station is reporting 75cm in my back garden now, oil tank is buried, soon to be followed by the trampoline and it is still thumping down. After this mornings frolics I need spotlights on my roof bars as going up the glen the snow was above my headlights, if anyone from Volvo reads this I could do with an upgrade or raising kit after getting bellied in the down road.
Up the hill there is between 1.5 to 2 metres of fresh powder on the lower slopes and zig zags and probably more further up, the snow is level with the top of the tunnel and track buried in the usual places. I would also imagine there will be avalanche risk in places we have not seen before.
If the forecasted winds materialise who knows when we will get open…
July Glacier skiing anyone?
Cheers
Colin”
(Via Cairngorm Mountain – Patroller’s Blog.)
