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touring & backcountry
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 NH995003 looking east towards across Garbh Uisge Mor
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 Looking down Lurchers Gully
|  Coire an Lochain
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 Looking west across Sron na Lairge
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 West slope of Cairn Lochan well travelled!
|  Looking north to Cairngorm with the top of Hell's Lum and Stag Rocks just visible
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 Sron na Lairge
|  Looking up the approach route and Lurchers in the morning
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:: Tour Route(s) or Location Skied/Ridden
Normal route out to Ben Macdui north top. Deviation into the Garbh Uisge Beag and up Garbh Uisge Mor. Return via normal route with descent of Lurchers Gully.
:: Weather Conditions
Blue skies, light wind. -7 at the ski car park at 8am. Clouded over in the middle of the day but cleared again by 3pm.
:: Snow Conditions and Distrubtion
Hard neve on exposed areas. Dry sastrugi on lee slopes. North slopes above 1000m had soft snow with hoar frost. Best descent of the day was the west slope of Cairn Lochan. Lurchers had hardpack but was well travelled.
:: Skiers/Riders
Bruce Kerr
This report was posted by bkerr at 21.52hrs on Tue 2nd Apr 13
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