Avalanche forecasters capture conditions on Scotland's peaks
- Published

The Sportscotland Avalanche Information Service (SAIS) has wound up its latest season of daily avalanche risk reports. The forecasts cover mountains such as Buachaille Etive Mor in Glencoe. The images in this gallery were taken by SAIS forecasters

Rime ice on a sign in Glencoe

Hoar frost photographed in Glencoe

Creag Meagaidh is another of the Munros covered by the service

A footprint in snow at Creag Meagaidh

Spindrift, wind-blown snow and ice, at Creag Meagaidh

Coire na Ciste in Lochaber under blue skies earlier this year

The Scottish Mountaineering Club's CIC Hut in Lochaber in a whiteout

Sun strikes the snow-covered tops of Lochnagar

Climbers tackle a route on Lochnagar

Car-sized blocks of avalanche debris in Glas Maol in the Southern Cairngorms in March

Sunshine and snow in the Northern Cairngorms earlier this month

Wind sculpted snow in the Southern Cairngorms

A group of walkers make the most of the snowy conditions in the Northern Cairngorms
- Published17 April 2013