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Snow Patches Surviving on Scottish Mountains
Simonw replied to firefly's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
I think I know the book/pic you are referring to and the the pic is of Coire an Lochain. Very occasionally a spring avalanche on the Great slab in that coire produces what looks like a small glacier in the coire with a huge depth of snow and deep crevasses forming. Certainly it looks just like a glacier in the pic I saw! Of course it is not a real glacier, for that form properly you need about a 150ft depth of neve to compress the snow into ice.