Thinking of doing either the Cairngorm - Macdui - Coire Etchachan route, this weekend, but I'll not even bother planning it if there's known snowfields still on the plateau.
Other option is a first Mullach Clach a Blair - Carn Ban Mor of the season. I'd be interested to know if that's clear(ish). I can handle a couple fo snowbridges over the burns but not wading thro porridge.
Any info would be helpful, thanks.
Probably / possibly.
I'm doing Mount Keen tomorrow morning, so I'll have a look across and let you know...
Here's the Cairngorm cam looking up the hill.
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Check out Bothy Bikes facebook page as they were up quite high last night.
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If you have the time do it anyway, if the weather is good you might find it looks like this.
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[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/snow-cover-in-the-cairngorms ]See more on this thread.[/url]
Cheers messiah, I'd seen the Bothy ride pics the other night. Think it was in Sneachda and there was a fair amount of snow around them. It's maybe too early to risk the big one yet.
Anyone done CBM recently?
It's maybe too early to risk the big one yet.
Rubbish... ^ that there picture was in May. If the weather is good get the sunscreen on and go for it. At the worst you will have to walk over the snow fields up top which will not slow you down by much (and you will not be causing any erosion on the delicate Cairngorm Plateau as your tyres won't be destroying the plantlife that will take years to recover 😉 ).
That has "you go be the probe and if it works I'll be up there as soon as" written all over it messiah.
We both know we had fresh snow as recently as a couple of weeks back.
We'll see ...
That route to Etchachan is not that steep... and the umpteen freeze/thaw cycles since will have consolidated that so it aint going to move... trust me... I've been trained to dig snow pits and used to throw bombs at slopes for a living 😆
Bigger risk would be falling through a thin bit and drowning in the burn underneath... 😐
Keep to the right - the burn is off to the left (as you look down the hill that is... not up the hill, we don't do that round here).