Climbers topping out on The Ben and hoping to find the three newly erected 1.8m high navigation cairns are being warned that the snow is so deep the cairns are almost indistinguishable from other lumps and bumps.
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> wasn't fine at 11.15am on Sunday before the cloud lifted! It was impossible to ID any lumps/bumps until almost stumbling upon them!
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Surely that's the point in them? Help you break the legs down, smaller legs, less error when you get there?
So there are enough visible cairns to give people a handrail almost all of the way to the summit, then they are invisible at the most critical point? I always suspected that these cairns were a flawed concept, and this appears to prove it.
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