Lovely weather and some nice snow, as you can see in Lucy's picture above.
climbing: February 2004 Archives
Collected and commented mountain weather forecasts for the Aviemore area with some webcams, here is a map of area.
Webcams
View of the ski base station
View of Ptarmigan Bowl area
View of Cairngorm from Glenmore Lodge
Thanks to OutdoorsMagic for some of these links.
Weather forecasts
Ptarmigan level weather forecast, approx 1000m
Mid level ski forecast, approx 850m
Aviemore general forecast on the BBC
Geoff Monk and Associates have an Eastern Highlands forecast, as a PDF.
This is good and very useful, especially when combined with the snow conditions in the SAIS forecast below.
SAIS Avalanche forecast, in case you are unsure Aviemore is in the northern cairngorms.
Finally a overview of the Snow condditions on CairnGorm from winterhighland.com.
I'm off next week with Mountain Innovations, who are based in Boat of Garten, home of the ospreys. Hopefully you'll see the webcam pictures full of snow next week.
I got paid by amazon and google recently and at the weekend I bought myself some things with the cash. The google cheque, being in US dollars will be a faff to cash and the exchange rate is rubbish at the minute. Still, all in all, I have covered the hosting costs of last year, so there is something to the google ads and the amazon links. I decided to ignore that sunk cost and instead bought myself something I have wanted for a long, long time, an ice axe.
All this is in preparation for a Scottish Winter mountaineering trip next week, see scary picture of me all kitted out for the highlands. More in subsequent posts.
