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 view across to the north face
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 Heading up the Allt a Mhuilinn
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 heading into Observatory gully
|  the route
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 deep snow and debris
|  Topping out from Tower Gully
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 out of the cloud
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|  view from slopes of Carn Mor Dearg
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 Approaching col below Carn Mor Dearg
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 perfect spring snow
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:: Tour Route(s) or Location Skied/Ridden
Up Observatory gully into Tower Gully and then to the summit of Ben Nevis. Skied back down Tower gully to 804m and then booted it up onto the summit of Carn Mor Dearg from where we skied down the corrie immediately to the north. Walk out down the Allt Daim to the tree's and then picked our way down the bike tracks back to the North face car park
:: Weather Conditions
Brilliant to start and then quickly clouding over with heavy snow showers and thick cloud with some clearances. Freezing circa 900m
:: Snow Conditions and Distrubtion
Ben Nevis - Perfect powder until level with Tower Scoop from where there was significant avalanche debris and a hard crust to contend with before lower down it turned into fantastic spring snow.
Carn Mor Dearg - fantastic smooth powder turning into fantastic spring snow all the way from the summit to 800m
:: Skiers/Riders
Adrian Williams & Al Todd
This report was posted by AlTodd at 09.44hrs on Fri 27th Apr 12
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