 Poster: A snowHead
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milnerhome,
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Are all lifts running today including the funicular?
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Unfortunatley I'm back in work again today. Website says all uplift open and sun expected to shine though.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Whitegold wrote: |
3. Cairngorm -- lots of snow, good potential, but disappointing. Huge liftlines, unreliable lifts, and seemingly understaffed. Feels more like a big hill than a mountain. |
I think you must have been unlucky with your timing. I skied Cairngorm yesterday for the 16th time this season and even with the M1 and West Wall pomas broken the queues for most tows were very small.
The West Wall side of the mountain has some excellent advanced skiing but admittedly lacks the number of blacks available at Nevis.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Snow Time wrote: |
| Whitegold wrote: |
3. Cairngorm -- lots of snow, good potential, but disappointing. Huge liftlines, unreliable lifts, and seemingly understaffed. Feels more like a big hill than a mountain. |
I think you must have been unlucky with your timing. I skied Cairngorm yesterday for the 16th time this season and even with the M1 and West Wall pomas broken the queues for most tows were very small.
The West Wall side of the mountain has some excellent advanced skiing but admittedly lacks the number of blacks available at Nevis. |
Liftlines were 100 yards and 45 mins long at times on Easter Friday.
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im quite happy to give cgm stick but cmon it was Easter Friday, bluebird and powder, it was always gonna be rammed, add the train not running and cgm's lack of foresight made it worse, the Daylodge poma and cas were only 5-10 mins, it was the m1 that had the crazy queue.
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| geeo wrote: |
| im quite happy to give cgm stick but cmon it was Easter Friday, bluebird and powder, it was always gonna be rammed, add the train not running and cgm's lack of foresight made it worse, the Daylodge poma and cas were only 5-10 mins, it was the m1 that had the crazy queue. |
A snowtrain that didn't run when it snowed.
Idle tows.
Frequent long breakdowns.
It was chaos.
Still had a great day on the hill, though 
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I must admit, I don't like the train at all.. I'd much prefer a gondola and I believe this would allow the hill to still operate after heavy snowfalls, although the high winds cairngorm experiences would be a problem.
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To be fair the amount of snow this year has been exceptional. The only bit of the train that normally ever needs digging out is the area of the tunnel mouth. This is the first year that the snow has actually regularly covered large sections of the tracks.
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| geeo wrote: |
| im quite happy to give cgm stick but cmon it was Easter Friday, bluebird and powder, it was always gonna be rammed, add the train not running and cgm's lack of foresight made it worse, the Daylodge poma and cas were only 5-10 mins, it was the m1 that had the crazy queue. |
Should have been at Nevis, I didn't wait in a queue all day. All available uplift (apart from the Great Glen Chair and the Rob Roy tow neither of which access anything good) was running.
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| Dave Horsley wrote: |
| This is the first year that the snow has actually regularly covered large sections of the tracks. |
long may it continue, dig monkeys dig 
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barry,
Yep, I'm hoping it happens every winter now  (I'm sure Colin would prefer it if the drifts reached to just below the top of the train track towers though).
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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calling all scots mags in the know....collecting my pro riders monday..whoot whoot..so dying to get them out..worth my taking the ferry over next week some time?? (i'll ski anything, any conditions, i'm not fussy)...if so, where's my best bet?? arv, i know you said nevis was good recently..still holding up??....
okbye
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Whitegold, currently working my way up your list, with Nevis planned tomorrow. So far in agreement.
1873Chris, Nice to see you on the hill today 
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You know it makes sense.
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snowpatrol, No idea... planning Nevis/Glencoe for Friday pending weather/conditions. Keep an eye on the Winterhighland reports section.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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arv, gotcha...
okbye
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Whitegold, I dare say you'd be old and shrunk if you were 450million years old (or whatever it is)! 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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The Loch Morlich AWS might have caught a bit of sun stroke today, certainly should have busted the 20c mark, given Aviemore is on 19 at 6pm, but despite the sunbathers on the beach, suspect the 24c clocked mid afternoon is pushing it and might need to move the weather station a tad.
I do wonder if anyone on the beach was silly enough to dip their toes in Loch Morlich.... 
Back to the snow and there's still fantastic top to bottom sliding on CairnGorm Mountain, extensive wide cover on the upper and mid mountain with plenty of off-piste expanses to explore. Some gullies seeing action further West in the Northern Corries and over the back on the South side of the 'Gorm down into the Loch A'an Basin - but beware of the potential risk of some full depth slides in prone locations, frightening crevasses have opened up on the Great Slab in Coire an Lochain:
Full size: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ibt42o4eAcQ/S787Mwde_rI/AAAAAAAABa4/fSAf9cxcut4/s1600/IMGP1897.JPG
(Photo by SAIS)
Within the Ski Area there is a seriously sized park setup in the Ptarmigan Park following today's Dawn of the Shread IV.
(Photos by CML - www.cairngormmountain.co.uk)
Still fantastic sport for more advanced riders in the Ciste Gully and on the East Wall, the main snow field of the West Wall is skiable from the Aonach Bowl which continues to be one of the picks each day. Plenty of options in Coire Laogh Mor as well, the Laogh Mor Return remains doable to the lower level Ciste Carpark with a couple of bits of heather hoping to 1800ft. Good cover on the Carpark Runs for sliding to the Daylodge and the M2/Daylodge route is also complete to the Cas Carpark, though narrow in places, best snow on the Daylodge is skiers left of the poma.
Out West there's great cover on the top half of the mountains. Main Basin, Spring Run and the Wall are offering the best sliding at Glencoe, good spring snow up top, slightly sticky lower down. All uplift will run if demand.
At Nevis the Summit, Goose and Warrens areas have wide cover, stick in Goose Gully till the bottom of the T-bar then cut across. Amusing people on the Webcam because there is absolutely no snow visible anywhere near the Quad Chair, but despite that the Allt Sneachda remains complete to the bridge on the road by the Top Station (it's completely hidden from view on the webcam).
The Braveheart was running today offering up some amazing spring sliding for advanced riders under unbroken sunshine, it's expected to open on Sunday, but check the latest with ski patrol.
The Lecht continues to have most main runs complete with a generally full width cover between the fences, though a couple of worn patches appearing in the usual spots on the steep pitches of the Grouse and Snowy Owl. Number of lifts depends on demand. Excellent beginner areas.
Last but not least, Glenshee where Sunday is the final day of the 2010 season, so your last chance to head up the Sunnyside Pomas and onwards and outwards to carve up the spring snow fields of Meall Odhar and Glas Maol. Centre Gully has been skiing beautifully by all accounts, and I'm gutted to have been unable to get over today due to car trouble. 
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Beautiful sunny day at Glencoe today, it was 17C at 5pm when we got back to the car. They have lost a lot of snow lower down, the only way I saw to ski back to the access chair was down the plateau poma up track however the top of the mountain was in lovely condition. Mainly did the Main Basin and Spring Run all day, Etive Glades was harder first thing but nicer later on. Still plenty of skiing left
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Loch Morlich, near Cairngorm, was registering 23c on Sun afternoon.
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how do you all think a week on satuday is shaping up? still worth the trip up?
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Ricklovesthepowder, take a bike as well
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certainly going to be a last minute one should i go. Skiing in heavy wet snow and rain isnt fun, been there before in Avoriaz!!! A dusting of fresh snow is foecast for Friday possibly so who knows.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Whitegold wrote: |
Cairngorm -- seemingly understaffed |
Earlier this winter I went into the Ptarmigan Restaurant, and there were 3 lads at the servery speaking amongst themselves. I asked one for a bacon roll, and all 3 then proceeded to put it together for me! One got the plate and held it out, the second delivered the bun, while the third shovelled in the bacon! I couldn't believe it. This is not including person number 4 that brought the bacon from the kitchen to the servery just before I arrived, or person number 5 that actually sold the thing to me. I mean, FFS! 
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Poster: A snowHead
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barry, I'm probably about to embarrass myself but what are TR's and WH
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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TR = Trip report
WH - WinterHighland.info, a scottish outdoorsy website
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Sorry Phil_D, and not at all! My bad
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Does anyone know how much a season pass is at the nevis range? including summer biking uplift?
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mailto:info@nevisrange.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1397 705 825
Pretty sure II has a season pass, might be worth a PM.
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milnerhome, I paid £195 for my ski season ticket which I can use in the summer on the gondola.
A day pass for a bike was £19 last year and you get a 50% discount with a season ticket
You can also get a none ski season ticket for about £40 which will also get you a 50% discount on the bike ticket....
This is last years info so the prices may have changed...
HTH
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firstracks, as good as it gets anywhwere
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firstracks, thanks for the pictures.
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and fussier. But if you're fit, strong and keen go for it - they're intending to continue into May. Bear in mind you'll keep repeating a limited number of runs but if you don't mind that it's OK. Forecast to get colder next week so maybe more snow. I deliberately booked at the last minute when I was fairly certain about the weather - it's not much fun in wind and rain IMO which isn't unusual up there but who knows. Regards. 
