Today Lee and I had a later start and a much needed lie in (relatively), leaving Aviemore at 9am to head up towards Cairngorm. We had been planning on heading over to do some of the ice routes on Hell’s Lum but the weather had other plans. It was plus six degrees at the car park and drizzling heavily. With most of Loch Morlich having thawed out practically overnight we decided that the ice conditions would be a bit suspect, and there was a high avalanche potential for the slopes above the routes. We sat in the car and deliberated whether or not to head into t’Sneachda again and do some mixed routes, but as the drizzle got heavier and the snow got wetter we decided against it and spent the rest of the day drinking coffee and shopping in Aviemore. A pleasant rest day, hopefully the colder conditions forecast will consolidate the snowpack further and keep on forming more ice!
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