After two weeks of cold turkey, not the edible kind, I went for a bimble around Caerketton Crags at a lofty 478m. At the very time I decided to drive up to the Ski Centre, a minor blizzard started, making the road up inpassable (until they cleared it ten minutes later!). So a steady plod from the Steading Inn car park took me up to the slopes below the crags. Although the pea souper that followed the snow made it impossible to see.
And as with conditions further north, the snow was soft and unconsolidated, with only some small areas of harder snow on any windward slopes.
Not much to look at but it provided a few minutes of loose, snowy scrambling.
Always time for a cuppa and a biscuit though!
Looking across Edinburgh to Aurthurs Seat.
And across to Fife.
Plenty of snow at Hillend Ski Centre with people skiing "off piste" between the gorse bushes!
Unless the weather and snow situation improves over the next few days, if we go out at all it looks like ridges are the safest place to be just now.
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