 Poster: A snowHead
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| cameronphillips2000 wrote: |
| The Lecht has now become thee new La Grave. |
Why ?
The A93 is the route to Glenshee from Aberdeen, you can still get to the Lecht unless other roads are flooded too.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| rjs wrote: |
| cameronphillips2000 wrote: |
| The Lecht has now become thee new La Grave. |
Why ?
The A93 is the route to Glenshee from Aberdeen, you can still get to the Lecht unless other roads are flooded too. |
It just seemed like a good opportunity to bond with another world class, epic ski resort that has suffered recent infrastructure problems too.
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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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You can get to Glenshee from Aberdeen via the South Deeside Road (B976) between Ballater and Balmoral - thankfully the location of the bit of road that was washed away is between Crathie and Ballater and not Crathie and Braemar.
A93 from the south appears to have survived Frank with no issues.
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@roguemazza, great! Wasn't too sure where the damaged road was.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| roguemazza wrote: |
You can get to Glenshee from Aberdeen via the South Deeside Road (B976) between Ballater and Balmoral - thankfully the location of the bit of road that was washed away is between Crathie and Ballater and not Crathie and Braemar.
A93 from the south appears to have survived Frank with no issues. |
Perhaps the Queen could pay for repairs so she can still get to Crathie church
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| bobmcstuff wrote: |
| So no easy Glenshee access for the foreseeable! |
Just drive to the right on the grassy bit in the photo. Problem solved 
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Well Hillend at least was sliding well this morning 
Light rain earlier to lubricate the plastic and at most 20 folk on the slope including the 3 of us.
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Apologies if this has been posted before, but just found some footage of the early days of skiing in Glencoe (1939-1994)
https://vimeo.com/16034266
Not one helmet in sight.. 
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Update on the A93 issues
Access to Glenshee from Aberdeen will not be possible for some time as the Invercauld bridge was damaged by the floodwaters, latest update from the council is that this could be for some weeks 
Trip up to visit my folks soon could be fun as flying into Aberdeen, still at least everybody is safe.
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@GEOFFERS cheers for that. love the coe.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Very mild again in Aviemore.
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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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Just driven down from our annual New Year week in the Western Highlands.
Not a lot of snow in the West that we could see though everything was clagged in and it was peeing with rain across Rannoch Moor.
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Temps need to drop. Could be a disasterous season.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Looks like this season could be a wash out. We are due one.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| scotspikey wrote: |
| Looks like this season could be a wash out. We are due one. |
A bit early to give up on it, the season can easily not start properly until well through January.
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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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Fingers crossed for them. It sounds like they're have a really crap time of it in the North East of Scotland at the moment.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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This weather is really annoying - high winds and rain for days and days now, I've not been able to get out on the bike once.
Obviously worse for the people who've been flooded though. My boss lives out in Aboyne and apparently they have had some flooding. I went for a run down to the Dee on Saturday and you can see how high the flood water got.
| roguemazza wrote: |
Update on the A93 issues
Access to Glenshee from Aberdeen will not be possible for some time as the Invercauld bridge was damaged by the floodwaters, latest update from the council is that this could be for some weeks
Trip up to visit my folks soon could be fun as flying into Aberdeen, still at least everybody is safe. |
Frustrating as it looks like Glenshee is getting some decent snow at the moment, we would have to go round the southern route via Forfar, which adds 30 minutes or so.
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Well, it looks like all the areas are going to get some snow and Saturday might not have awful skiing weather - although if places are open I assume there will be big queues?
Where would be best to go, assuming the areas are open this weekend?
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While there are still a few days to go the webcams are still showing very sparse cover. If they do get anything open it is likely to be thin and in the main bowls. It is also likely that only a few runs will be open. Based on previous form Cairngorm will charge full price and sell more tickets than they should, so in answer to your question, yes, there will be big queues.
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Read elsewhere that Glenshee may get a good dump in the next few days. If so then I might have to eat my words.
Looks like it is beginning to get white already.
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Saw some photos on FB of touring at Glenshee yesterday, they reckoned it was pretty good on Sunnyside.
More snow forecast so here's hoping!
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As desperate as I am to get out I think it will be grim with queues this weekend. got next Friday booked off so hoping that will be a goer 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Mind you Glenshee could be great this weekend (just looked in Winter Highland) and if people can't get there from the North so easily...
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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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Update from winterhighland on Facebook, and with colder and calmer conditions being forecast for next week this could be the "proper" start of the season...
Foot of the White Lady looking much whiter, there's been several inches of snow overnight and heavy drifting off Plateau areas into the snowsports area on CairnGorm. Gusting >70mph at Top Station, so Funicular not running at the moment. CairnGorm hopeful of being up and running for the weekend and the Lecht pretty confident of spinning at least some tows on Friday. Just what can be offered depends on how today unfolds. Heavy snow currently falling over parts of the Cairngorms.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@kitenski, no word from Glenshee? Seemed like they were going to get the most snow...
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Poster: A snowHead
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Update from Glenshee on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GlensheeSkiCentre/posts/771259756311548
Bad news - more rain than snow overnight, wet conditions with sleet today, unlikely to be skiing at the weekend unless it gets colder now. Shame as they had the most precipitation forecast.
Could try the Lecht, probably give Cairngorm a miss 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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Area around Aberdeen is slightly flooded...
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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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Cairngorm opening Friday for first time this season.
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Glencoe looks good on the webcams but their Facebook says "It's a beautiful morning with the sun out for the first time in weeks. Despite the heavy snow yesterday we still don't have enough yet for skiing and snowboarding. However there is now plenty of snow on the plateau area for sledging and snow man building."
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Update from Glenshee on FB:-
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Hello everyone the boys have now been out on a very white hill and up high it is looking good but the lower slopes are too wet and not enough depth for this weekend.
Touring looks good though.
More snow due Sat and Sunday so hopefully we will be running soon. |
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Will be interesting to hear how busy Cairngorm gets today
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We opened the nursery slopes at the Lowther Hills Ski Club today, then met with the organisers of the Scottish schools race series to discuss our hosting (and get some training on how to organise) a South of Scotland qualifier for the finals.
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| MCL wrote: |
| Will be interesting to hear how busy Cairngorm gets today |
Facebook comments are an indicator, not sure if it's a relationship able one to be fair!
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The kind of eejut that woud pish & moan about it on FB is the same kind of eejut that wouldn't expect it to be busy on a w/e at Cairngorm the first day some ski lifts have spun for the season. Not excusing CM/Natural Retreats BTW, or any other ski centre selling more passes than their lift capacity can handle. But people from the Central Belt only look north. They'd actually have had the chance for more vertical on our wee nursery runs, than queuing to lap the Ptarmigan, spent a load less on fuel, saved on 4 hours in the car, and got one of our season passes for the price of their day ticket at Cairngorm 
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FAQ
He is due to race at The Lecht 3 weeks this weekend but I'm very pessimistic as to the likelihood of it going ahead.
