Winter storms on the way
It’s going to be a wild Halloween, woOOoo! 100mph winds on the tops and snow. What a combination!
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30/10/2009
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Superb old time winter climbing video
John Cunningham climbing on The Ben in 1976. Brilliant stuff!
20/10/2009
Stratocumulus Lenticularis
There are high speed winds coming in from the South East today, with Cairngorm recording 87mph gusts so the clouds here are lower level lenticulars. Superb sky!
They’re worth 45 points in the Cloud Collector’s Handbook. Result!
18/10/2009
On the Hill of the Monk
With the forecast set fair, I jumped on the ferry to Mallaig and drove down through Fort William and Glenoe to the Kingshouse, on the edge of Rannoch Moor, my intention to head for Beinn Mhanach, or Monk’s Hill, via the lesser known route from Achallader. I’d heard rumour of a stalkers’ path from the top of Coire Daingean and although a longer route than the Auch trade route, it looked much more adventurous, heading into remoter terrain with the promise of a balcony path round the side of Beinn Achallader. So I put up the tent at the Kingie, excited about the next day’s walk and sat back to watch the sun sink to the west of the Buachaille.
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16/10/2009
Sunrise
Stunning sunrise this morning, looking to Beinn Sgritheall and Ladhar Bheinn, with earthshine visible on the waning Moon and Venus close by:
6/10/2009
A deflating Moon
NASA are going to slam two pointy things into the Moon on the 9th of October and to get you in the mood, they’ve also published a Lunar Impact Party Kit. But what if the Moon burst and went zigzagging off into the void with a cosmic raspberry sound? Science would be REALLY cool then!
A couple of new blogs
Thought I’d share a couple of new outdoor blogs I found:
Gavin Macfie, Outdoor and travel writing from the Highlands of Scotland
Beanntan, Uisge agus Spòrs (mountains, water and fun, in Gaelic)
there are some interesting mountainy historical thingies in these blogs, well worth a look.
4/10/2009
The snow has arrived!
A wild Saturday of severe gales and heavy rain, quite entertaining, so I read a couple of books. Portent by James Herbert and What is Life by Erwin Schrodinger. Lovely festering! Today we trained the bins across to Knoydart to see snow down to about 800m on Sgurr a’Mhaoraich. Looking at the Cairngorm webcam, they’ve got a good dusting down to 800m too. Welcome back winter!
2/10/2009
First major storm of the winter
The chart looks interesting, tightly squeezed isobars for Saturday and the forecast is for 100mph on the tops, with snow thrown in for good measure.
