In reply to alburns:
I drove down from Glencoe through Glen Orchy today, a tad depressing from a winter climbing viewpoint. The gullies on Stob Coire Nan Lochain look to be complete but with 10 or 11 degrees at the roadside I'd expect them to be rather soggy - all the buttresses and ridges are black. Buachaille Etive Mor was nigh on bare of snow in the Curved Ridge/North Buttress areas.
Udlaidh was in cloud as I drove past but again with 10 degrees at the roadside and as Jamie B says at an elevation of about 5 or 600m *and* with no really cold weather preceding it I wouldn't waste my time looking for ice up there. The hills are rather stripped at the moment and the thaw is continuing, I don't see any signs yet of another cold spell. I would take this oppportunity to remind people of those "coldest winter ever" predictions made in some newspapers, so there's hope yet