An 'interesting' day for the SAIS girls

Winter had returned for a little while overnight and this morning looked promising....Kathy and I were very excited about the prospect of maybe finding 50cm of fresh powder in the Cas Bowl....Well you know..we all have dreams.. Unfortunately there wasn't as much as we expected. However the pit showed some very interesting layers of which two were graupel. There was one very low graupel layer on top of crust which we didn't expect. The graupel grain can be a nasty piece as it forms a lovely sliding layer. There was also a bit of windslab and as we wandered around discovered that this was lying on a variety of aspects due to the crazy winds from all directions and variet in quantitiy and depth. Generally quite sticky and stable but something to watch out for at the gully excits.

All in all a good day to catch up with Cairngorm gossip....sorry we don't share this with you!

Tomorrow the weather looks interestingly wild....so I probably venture into dry places...