Review of the last 10 years compared with the previous 25

✍ Scribed by Dr Adam Watson; David Duncan; John Pottie

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 100 KB
• Volume: 61
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0043-1656
• DOI: 10.1002/wea.200661505

✦ Synopsis

Two Scottish snow patches when two others remained (DD). By the 24th, only the two main ones were left (E. Pirie). On 4 October, DD measured the Pinnacles patch (31.5 × 17 × 2 m), and the Sphinx one (14.5 × 11 × 3 m). K. Miller visited on 6 November to find both patches still surviving, with much dirt on the surface of the old icy snow, and so the earlier falls of new snow had all gone (Figs. 2 and3). On DD's last visit on 9 November, the old snow was clearly visible below a light covering of new powder, and cornices had formed along the plateau rim. The Pinnacles patch measured 25 × 8 × 1.9 m, and the Sphinx one smaller but deeper (9.2 × 8.6 × 2.5 m). A bergschrund (a gap between a glacier or snow patch and the cliff behind it) separated the back of the Sphinx patch from the cliff foot behind.