Great ski touring throughout the Cairngorms. Off -piste there's great silky powder snow with a firm base above 1,000 metres though at lower elevations the snow is getting heavier and starting to consolidate. With the drop in temperatures this weekend the snow should become quite firm below 900 metres. The winds today were from a southerly direction and were building small cornices and loading windslab onto north facing coire bowls and gullies. There was a big avalanche yesterday on a north facing coire bowl so take extra care if climbing or descending into Coire an t-Sneachda and Coire an Lochain ... See also http://www.marmotte.co.uk/blog/diary
