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Hello all..

Anybody been around the Buachaille etive mor recently? What like a state do you think The Chasm will be in?

cheers

If you want it not running with water then you want probably a week of dry high pressure weather.

In reply to Milesy:


Pah. If you are not having to fight your way up a waterfall in the rain by headtorch, it doesn't qualify as a real ascent of the chasm!

In reply to mrbird:

I would want there to have been a decent week of dry, sunny weather before getting on (in?) it.

In reply to mrbird:

Can I hijack the thread???

Thinking of heading to Glencoe for the Bank holiday weekend if the forecast's good. Are the rock routes (or scrambles) dry, maybe on the rannoch wall? Also how about descents? survivable in approach shoes?
Or is it all taking seepage from remaining snow?

Thanks

In reply to mrbird:
@Oliver Houston -

It's all pretty good, no climbs affected by snowmelt that I could see. Loads of snow in Curved Ridge exit gully, which forms essentially a massive bergshrund against the mountain itself, I didn't bother. It can be bypassed easily by going into Crowberry Gap and direct to the summit of Stob Dearg. Snow free on the Coire na Tulaich spur descent. The coire is rammed with snow, loads of folk using this as a route though, no particular cornice problems.

In reply to kwoods:

Thanks Kevin, sounds great, now if the forecast would just give me the same optimism...