Now that the ski centres are gearing up for the new season, and trudging around the high mountains in autumn looking for dirty patches a few metres long are but a distant memory
, I thought everyone might like to know the final tally for survivals this year.
Firstly, a huge round of thanks to all that contributed, particularly coaster, HTH, RJ (can someone drop me his email address?) Da kishman, snowpatch95, Mike W and all the others that helped. The amount of helpers, particularly in summer, made recording that much easier.
In total, 12 survivals:
1) Garbh Choire Mhor - Pinnacles
2) Garbh Choire Mhor - Sphinx
3) Garbh Choire Mhor - Michaelmas Fare
4) Garbh Uisge Beag #1
5) Garbh Uisge Beag #2
6) Garbh Uisge Beag #3
7) Aonach Beag (again, the largest by some distance)
8) Aonach Mor (protalus, not the higher ones that survived last year)
9) Ben Nevis - Point 5 Gully
10) Ben Nevis - Gardyloo Gully
11) Ben Nevis - Observatory Gully #1 (larger than last year by quite a way)
12) Ben Nevis - Observatory Gully #2
The lasting snows came approximately 2-weeks sooner in 2008 than in 2007, and a full report will (hopefully) appear in Weather magazine sometime in the new year.
winterhighland will be singled-out for special thanks, and I have plans next year to get more exposure...
