Jamie Wrote:
Alternatively, a ski tourer may have got to the top of An Socach, left their skis to go and suss out a suitable lunch spot, and returned to find their skis gone..?
That did occur to me! They were sitting neatly side by side as if someone was about to come back for them. However the fact that we'd seen no sign of anyone else on the hill that day and there was pretty much no snow left made me confident that I wasn't going to leave some poor bloke wandering around searching for his skis. The uppers did look rather weathered and the edges were rusty.