Good Snow Cover
9th January 2026
There is good snow cover in the area but this varies from the Southern end near Glenshee to greater and more widespread snow towards Ben Avon and Ben Macdui. Hard going on foot but with some consolidation taking place allowing better conditions for ski touring. A complex picture though regarding instabilities, with weak layers persisting at lower elevations! Three recent, reported avalanches have taken place at elevations around 5-600m on SE aspects, two were deer triggered! This was due to a weak layer that remains in the localised accumulations with the avalanche crownwall on the apex of steep convexities. Today we investigated the avalanche above the A93 before the Devils Elbow. A large avalanche size 2-3 ( enough snow to bury a person and potentially a car) had released on a layer on buried surface hoar and sugar like facet grains which was 30 cm or so below the surface which then stepped don to a weak layer on the ground! Avalanche crown wall 1.5m deep and around 60 m wide and travelled around 100m downslope.
So just something to be alert too.
looking up avalanche debris
Looking towards the Western slopes of Meall Gorm
Avalanche crownwall
Cornices fringing SE aspects around 500m alt.
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