Tom na Sroine
11th March 2025
It had been a cold night with summit temperature dropping down to around minus six. We are in one the cold but dry periods that have been common this winter with little change expected in the weather over the next few days. The old snow that remains is now hard and icy with strips of water ice starting to form here and there.
With little changing in the snowpack, I decided go somewhere a little different. I headed round the side of Aonach Mor, past the Loch of Coire an Lochan, and continued traversing round to Tom na Sroine. The name Tom na Sroine appears in slightly different places on some of the maps I have for the area. In one case it is places next to spot height of 918m, in the other is is placed on a bulge in the ridge over a kilometer to the north. As the the word “Tom” means a small, rounded hillock, knoll, or mound, or a clump of vegetation like a bush or thicket, it potentially could refer to either. Either way, it provided some nice views over to the Grey Coires, and back to Aonach Mor.
The Aonach Mor summit temperature from the Holfuy station on the summit hut. After an unusually mild weekend the temperature started dropping Sunday evening down to a minimum of about minus six degrees last night.
Coire an Lochan on Aonach Mor from a distance.
A closer shot looking up to Easy Gully and the crags to the South.
The Loch of Coire an Lochan. A few chunks of older ice floating about with some newer ice forming on the near side it it.
Looking over to Sron an Cul Choire, Aonach Mor on the right hand side disappearing into the cloud.
The view to the South from Tom na Sroine. Sgurr Choinnich Mor on the centre left of the photo.
Looking East into the Grey Cories.
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