Glencoe this weekend ... anyone?

[PAUL O]

Just wondered if anyone fancied joining me in (snowy-clad) Glencoe later this week? I am booked in at the Kings House Hotel from Thursday night (31st) and leave on Sunday 3rd January.
Anyone in that neck of the woods who fancies meeting up for some LF photography in the snow let me know

[gari]

Bugger, I would have been really keen but I have just arrived on Islay and don't get home until Mon 4th. Enjoy, I was over there last week and the snow is great and the light was great for details etc.

Gari

[PAUL O]

Pity

[Paul Arthur]

Been up here for a week - brilliant conditions... have a great time, and we shall have to compare results when you get back.

[PAUL O]

Great news Paul pity we won't bump into each other!
Can you tell me the conditions of the roads in and around Glencoe area? Is the road down through Glen Etive driveable?
Thanks!
Paul

[Paul Arthur]

Yes, no problem. I went down there, it was all compacted snow, but it won't have gotten slushy.

Stay clear of Glen Orchy though.

[Paul Arthur]

Oh, and the A82 is completely clear.

[Paul Arthur]

Oh, and the A82 is completely clear.

Just make sure you fill up your washer bottle with undiluted screen wash, mines been frozen solid for a week.

[PAUL O]

Thanks for the tips

[PAUL O]

Just got back from Glencoe (literally!). Interesting experience as the weather was excellent (in that it didn't rain) but there was a great deal of snow on snow on snow!!!! Interesting from a metering point of view and also from a compositional angle - as all foreground "interest" was ...... snow!
The thick blanket covering of the white stuff made trekking off road ... interesting; Rannoch Moor and the area around Buachaille Etive Mor is unforgiving when you can actually see what you're walking over; add a foot or more of thick snow and all the rocks, streams, pools are totally covered ... hmmm. Lochan na' Achlaise and Loch Ba were frozen and totally covered in thick snow too. Witnessed some fools actually walking out over the lochan to get closer photos of "the tree" - but they were digital users so what do you expect!
I can personally vouch for the temperature of water on Rannoch Moor - whilat traipsing back to the car I managed to walk across a "hidden" stream (that I had previously walked over without incident) and found my right foot breaking through a foot of snow and a layer of ice before plunging up to my groin in a mix of freezing water/ice/peat slush!

Managed to expose some 5x7 and 6x17 before blizzard conditions on Saturday made photography/driving/anything almost impossible.
Oh yes - stepped on my Gossen Starlite meter and promptly demolished it Luckily had a back up meter but still ... £££££