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Great turnout with almost a 100 people at Glencoe for the mid-summer slide, despite a less than summer like forecast. Still more or less complete runs on the upper and mid-mountain, with the Wall, Canyon and Thrombosis seeing action on the middle slopes and the Main Basin, Spring Run and Flypaper on the upper mountain.
[img]http://www.winterhighland.info/pix/displayimage.php?photo_id=32256&width=900&height=600[/img]
^Hitting a kicker in the Main Basin on the Summer Solstice.
More Pix: http://www.winterhighland.info/pix/pixalbum.php?pix_id=1105
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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That made me 
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There was a link from the Snowsport Scotland website to a flyer for Nevis Range that said they were open yesterday too.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Snow was forecast too.
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Me too, mountainaddict. I've skied gullies 3 and 4 and they were challenging enough for me but the descent of number 2 in that video just looked completely horrid, and the top of Tower Gully is a no-fall zone any time. The participants are good skiers though, one of them is a regular skiing buddy and I've skied with a couple of the others too. They're all technically better, more confident, and far more competent than I am and where I've spent maybe 300 days on snow, they're up into their 1,000's.
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Fantastic day out.....in our own mountains......in July 
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Vertical is certainly the word
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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So were you not on the Ben Nevis jaunt/video moffatross?
(I'd assumed you were as you'd posted it.)
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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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No, mountainaddict, I was just trying to keep the Scotland thread alive. If it had been me, I'd have started a new thread with at least 10 photos 
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The nights are drawing in...it'll soon be time to start next season's thread moffatross!
October season start anyone ??
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You know it makes sense.
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Oh no, not yet, mountainaddict. I'm still waiting for some summer 
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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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some really deep patches still around Glencoe...up to 10m (30 feet) thick the resort says
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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As the man said, the number of patches is an indicator of a crap cold Scottish summer - no harbinger of a good winter ahead, unfortunately !
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@deerman, The trend would appear to hint at things turning colder.
That said, as you suggest it may be the Summers that are cold rather than the Winter. Some altitude data would be interesting. Is there data on snow cover in Scotland during the Winter ?
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Winter is on it's way - heard the first geese of the season going over the house tonight.
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Is anyone going to start the 2015/2016 equivalent of this thread? Just moved to Edinburgh, keen for some schuss!
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Not much interest in Scotalnd on here these days.
Any resort even close to an opening?
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Nope. There has been snowfall on the hills overnight though.
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^^
Which probably means Scotland has more snow than most of the Alps at the moment. Lol
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Currently sleeting on outskirts of Edinburgh 
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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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Got some photos sent in from one of our places up in Grantown-on-Spey... snow is lying there so the Cairngorms will be getting some.
And so the base building begins for another season 
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Not much interest in Scotalnd on here these days.
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There's a fair few Scottish skiers on here once the winter gets going.
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You know it makes sense.
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@dave_wick, it's only just started snowing up here so resorts opening are a while away, unless we get a dump in relatively calm conditions. Doesn't look likely looking at the forecasts.
Today at Loch Morlich.
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If anyone wants to see what Glenshee looked like on saturday, there's a couple of photos on the "three valleys 2015/16" thread. I posted them in response to someone saying there was no snow anywhere 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Surely we need a New Scottish thread.
This on is titled Scotland snow report 2014/15
Isn't there a 2015/16 thread?
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