Cairngorm

With a good amount of snow visible on the webcams, Matt and I headed up to the Cairngorms for the first winter walk of the season! Excellent stuff, about 1ft of snow in most places, but quite soft so the going was fairly tough (which is good exercise, of course). We headed East straight up the hill from the carpark and followed the line of the hill up to the Ptarmigan restaurant (with a quick stop for some lunch), then onwards up to the summit of Cairngorm and then around Coire an Sneachda and Coire an Lochain, and finally back northwards towards the carpark. There was a mountain rescue helicopter hovering around for a bit, don't know if there were looking for an injured person. They headed straight for us for a bit but turned away when we just started taking pictures of them, rather than signalling that we were in any sort of distress...

Anyway, straight out of the carpark we were in deep snow, so it was excellently hard/slow going the whole way.