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denfinella, the guy pictured in my photo is going to glenshee tomorrow (unfortunately I can't make it), I'll get a report off him and post it up.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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moffatross, nice pics as usual. Is that first one of one of the back corries?
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| moffatross wrote: |
The highest playground in Scotland ? ...
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...That's not what I meant when I said we need to build a snow park!
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Glenshee apparently was pretty good. Firm and a bit icy at first but softened through the day. Glas Maol was open, the black run was very icy at the top. Snow not quite as good as Cairngorm yesterday but fewer queues (maybe due to the worse forecast for today - but apparently vis was good all day).
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Glenshee was good , esp glas maol , corrie fionn. No queues , blue sky snow was firm but not icy...looks like more fresh last night so looking better on the cams today.
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bobmcstuff and AndyG, thanks for the update. I can now only go Wednesday, which has a bad forecast. Will have to save for another time!
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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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Peter S, they do have fantastic cover this year,fantastic I say hopefully we will be skiing till the end of may!.
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You know it makes sense.
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Yep looking amazing and tbh there hasn't really been a massive 24 hr dump yet either can't wait for that mid week session.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Any reports, or even better, pictures of what Glenshee is currently like, or anyone going over the next few weeks would be good to hear - Im off from the 27th of Jan to the 4th Feb 
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Spot on kitenski! Conditions look much better than I thought they were, only going off the webcam images though, which are very low down. Hopefully conditions will only improve!
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miniman24, it did rain today at most levels. I would expect conditions have deteriorated somewhat at least for the lower slopes. Having said that, weather's supposed to cool down again over the next few days, and no major thaw expected on the longer term forecasts.
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Looks good Mountainaddict, think I can beat you on late running pics. Still not sorted mine from a couple of weeks back, well other than a quick winter highland report. Lens for the DSLR arrived back from repairers today  Normal service will be resumed soon, the need to treat the kit a bit better this year doubling as a good excuse for a ski day pack.
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mountainaddict, it looks even better than last easter, and that was excellent.
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| it looks even better than last easter, and that was excellent |
While we had a lot of lovely windblown powder....there was also a bit of (rather challenging) sheet ice in exposed areas. Still good fun though .
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"SNOW REPORT
Snow Level: 1400ft ft Vertical Runs: 2300ft ft
Lifts Operating: 0 of 7 Available Uplifts
Last Update 17/01/2014 at 05:12 pm
All slopes on the mountain have an extensive cover of soft snow on a good base. Continuing snowfall has further improved conditions. WALL T-BAR UPDATE - parts are now onsite and the maintenance boys are going to work through the night putting it back together, fingers crossed it will run tomorrow but no guarantee. Fraser has worked hard on the Rannoch Button and found the fault so it will run tomorrow if needed. Snow Factor boys and Charlie have been busy again today, we now have A Rainbow Rail, A Flat Box, A Pole Jam to Down Box, A Rookie Kicker and a Little Roller in the park."
Jut had a look at the Glencoe website. Does this mean the ski resort isn't open?
It's reporting a very good covering of snow 1m at low levels at 2.25m at the summit.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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Anyone know if the FlyPaper at the 'Coe has been open yet? It was shut when I was up at new year.
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Closed today due to bad visibility but has been open I'm sure
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You know it makes sense.
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Flypaper was open on Friday.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Not looking too good for Glenshee at the moment, hope it picks up in the next week!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Yep, pretty dire there at the moment. Hope for later in the week though - colder temperatures should help the snowpack dry out, and possibly significant snow on Tuesday / Wednesday.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Even more snow for glencoe on the way and hopefully glenshee where there is still lots of snow over on Glas moal..
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Snowgates are closed on the A93 now. Good confirmation that it was snowing to base at Glenshee because the radar has been very encouraging this evening and the wind direction should be helping fill the fenced runs on Sunnyside, Cluny / Tom Dearg and the Fionn Pomas as well as adding fresh into the natural gullies/bowls of Fionn Coire, Glas Choire and Center Gully. 
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Looking forward to tomorrow morning's webcam images!
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I feel a trip out west coming on!
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Its on the card for me Tues,wed,Thurs its all looking to good to miss.
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FAQ
and a keyhole. 
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. Frustrating and annoying - especially when getting there involves a 600 mile round trip.
Yes, it was in the back corries, Coire Dubh in fact. Status was 'unpatrolled' so you had to make your own choices as to safety. I went in at Winger Wall but I honestly couldn't see anything at the lip when I arrived, i.e. whether there was a big cornice to negotiate or not. I spent some time pole-whacking at it and just as a snowboarder, great fella called Neil turned up, the viz cleared enough for me to see that where I was whacking was just about cornice free. He was also equipped with the holy trinity and had ridden the same line earlier and reported stable snow throughout so we paired up for the run. 
