Unstable cornices.

24th February 2016

It started out as a nice day, but summits soon disappeared into the cloud. Some quite unstable looking cornices about, which I hope some of the pictures below will illustrate.

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The North East face of Aonach Beag.

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Carn Mor Dearg enjoying a bit of sunshine. Unfortunately it was not to last.

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The view to the Mamores as the cloud starts to build.

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Cracking back from the cornice line at the top of Easy Gully. I don’t remember this being here yesterday.

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Some substantial cornices exist.

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More cracking back from the cornice line. This crack formed yesterday.

 

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