Up Lairig Ghru to Corrour. onto Carn Toul, Angels Peak and Braerich out via Coire Gorm and Sinclairs Hut site.

Blustery some fresh snow, sunshine

Friday in Ghru from Sinclair hut site on soft wet snow became firmer higher up. Skiable most of the way down towards Corrour.
Saturday deep snow to coire wall between Devils Peak and Carntoul, weakly bonded. Good firm on plateau, excellent firm base in Coire Gorm.

DPC

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Carried skis up onto Beinn a Bhuird, and walked round past the North Top. Skied a steep south facing line into Coire nan Clach before climbing back out. Walked to the South Top and descended the Allt an t-Sneachda to about 650m above the Quoich

Very clear

Virtually none on the plateau for touring. You can ski round the corrie rims though! The descent into Coire nan Clach was chosen as it faced the sun so consisted of soft sugary spring snow which was perfect. The second descent of the day was on hard refrozen snow - I had left it too late in the day. It loses the sun a bit earlier in the day as it faces SE

Scott Muir (with Jackie and Debbie at various points!)

Cycled from Linn of Dee to Luibeg, then slogged up Sron Riach to the top of Ben Macdhui. Walked back down to about 1250m, put boots & skis on, and descended the line of the Caochan na Cochaiche down to 700m where it meets the Allt Carn a' Mhaim. It was so good, I changed back into my trainers, and climbed back up to 1200m for another run.

Generally very sunny. The cloud to the west seemed to be held back by the Cairn Toul / Braeriach ridge, but the top of Macdhui was in and out of mist during the day.

Where the snow is level, it is very hard, but as soon as there is an angle on it, it was fine (the whole run faced south). The snow turned to good spring snow from about 1150m all the way until it ran out at 700m. The upper 300m was a very wide and smooth blue run, before narrowing to a few metres wide, and steepening to the equivalent of a red run.

Take the day off and go and do it!

Scott Muir

Linn o'Dee, Luibeg, Sron Riach, Sputan Dearg, Ben Macdui. - Garbh Uisge Mor, link patches to Sputan Dearg, and down to Loch Etchachan. past Hutchison Hut, and out Glen Derry to Linn o'Dee.

Sunny, clear sky, very little breeze. - Perfect Spring day.

Perfect Spring day for a "Triathlon". - Biked to Derry Lodge, Hiked to Macdui, and found last of the snow patches at Garbh Uisge Mor, and down off Sputan Dearg to Etchachan.

Snow was consolidated Spring Snow, a bit heavy for tired legs after hiking, but worth the effort with a nice run virtually from top of Sputan, down the burn course to the first lochan, - Longer than Ptarmigan Bowl, and more interesting, and good width.

Was possible to ski part of slope off Macdui, and link patches across to Sputan, with just short walk to get onto snow again to ski off Sputan to Etchachan. - Lovely in the sun.

HTH

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Cairngorm to Ben Macdui, down to Lairig Ghru via Taillears, up Cairn Toul via Coire an Saighdeir, to Auchlean via 'Tom' and 'Dick' but not 'Harry'(near Carn Ban Mor) - 25km approx 13-14 hours

Perfect! Blue skies with a final moonlit descent down 'Tom' and 'Dick' .

Enough snow to get to Ben Macdui. Spring snow down Taillears with cover down to Lairig Ghru. Spring snow in Coire an Saighdeir- snow level approx 700m- this would make a very fine descent. Good cover from Cairn Toul to 'Tom' and 'Dick' - shouldered skis about three times but not for too long. Snow level on Tom and Dick down to 600m.

jungle & 12point