Tour from Ben Lawers car park including Meall Corranaich, Beinn Glass, Ben Lawers, An Stuc.

Best stuff on the day was descents off Beinn Glass and Lawers into the bowl to the SE of the ridge and down the Allt an tuim bhric, and bits into Coires a' Chonnaidh and Odhar.

Taps aff (mostly). Very warm in the sun, little breeze, some rare moments of low visibility as cloud drifted in early mornign and around midday.

Very variable cover and conditions with the effect of recent warm/ wind/ rain and snow.

Basically some great (if heavy in places) spring conditions through to midday, but the strength of the sun made things hard work thereafter. North facing slopes had good cover but pretty firm/ scoured. South/ east facing slopes rapidly thawing but good fun. A few small snow slides evident.

Ridges and some west slopes stripped/ thawed completely of snow made for some interesting route choices/ walking as opposed to skinning. Most of the worst cornices seem to have collapsed. Didn't need an axe/ crampons but if it freezes hard they'll be useful.

To the east of the road about 10 minutes walk needed to get to skiable cover, to the west cover down to the dam or thereabouts but if it stays warm the lower cover is thin and will rapidly disappear.

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