A return trip to Garbh Choire Mòr today with a film crew to record the last of the snow. Pretty mixed weather, but it cleared when it mattered. The crew agreed that the entry and exit gully was quite lively.

A pretty grizzly site this afternoon on the Braeriach plateau. The carcas (or what remains of it) of a reindeer. Just in case Cairngorm Reindeer cannot account for one of their beasts.

Good evening from the top of Ben More. It’s a fine night for a bivvy.

Three years ago today on Harris. An astonishingly lovely place.

From 26°C to snow on Wednesday. Welcome to the Cairngorms.

I visited Garbh Choire Mòr last week with a very dynamic film crew. Here’s a snippet of the results.

Not the best photos, but we have the first snow of autumn confirmed today at Aonach Beag and Ben Nevis. 📷 Mark Trigg

Spouses later watching their husband/wife reach for the thermostat to turn the heating on.

A photograph taken this morning from the top of Cairn Gorm. Winter is on the march. 📷Peter Jolly facebook.com/share/p/g8eewj…

Very early for such heavy snowfall in the Alps. It’s not just the U.K. that’s in the cold zone.

Passed this today. If you’re ever walked around a Scottish village and wondered what the initials are on the top of the lintels of old houses, they’re those of a married couple and the year they were wed. So, in 1781 AM married IN and moved into this house.

I’ve never read a more entertaining account on the horrors of war than this memoir. The guy is off his trolley. And a general, no less.

Of the two remaining snow patches in Scotland, Ian Boit visited the Sphinx yesterday at 7am, finding it just a few metres across. Will it survive past the weekend? facebook.com/groups/snowpat…

It's not often that Altnaharra is the warmest place in the UK, but the far north of Scotland is the place to be today.

Very enjoyable video from ScotlandsMountains of our trip a couple of weeks ago to see the Sphinx snow patch. youtu.be/ITWDx92S798 Excuse my orange trousers.

Finally, with “the vanishing ice” being one of my favourite reads of the year to date, I felt compelled to make a detour to gaze down into Garbh Choire Mòr and was excited to discover “the sphinx” is still intact although I’m guessing it won’t last for long. Iain Cameron