Glencoe Blog & Mountain Info

Water ice exists on many paths and watercourses at present in the Glen Coe area also the old snow cover is re-frozen giving a slick and unforgiving surface in the event of an uncontrolled fall.

Freezing hard at all levels, ice building up on Loch Achtriochtan, West Face Of Aonach Dubh (left) and An-t-Sron (right)

Windblown new snow is generally avoidable but where any depth has formed on steeper slopes it is weakly bonded to the underlying firm old snow.