 Poster: A snowHead
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm it's my birthday on the 10th, got the Thursday and Friday booked off already... Was meant to be going down to Bristol to see my parents, but if I read this and the weather outlook thread correctly there might still be decent skiing? In which case...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks like this. I'm trying to think up an excuse for blobbing on a birthday party this friday 
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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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Don't you just love this global warming and drought stuff !!!
Really hitting the UK and European ski season.
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emwmarine, well, it kind of did in March 
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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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Mosha Marc, there'll be another birthday next year. When do you reckon you'll next get chance to go skiing on StarWars day?
reminds me, must pack my darth vader helmet....
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shoogly, great pics.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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moffatross, looks great, done the back corries myself but never that far from the lift, must add those lines to my "to be done" list!
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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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moffatross, yeh I know where they are, just always been on my own when skiing Nevis....
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You know it makes sense.
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from MWIS:
Planning Outlook for all mountain areas from Thursday, 3rd May, 2012
Extensively dry on Thursday, although low cloud will take some hours to break up over the Borders and Pennines. Cold air from the Arctic will gradually envelop all mountain areas from the north on Friday and persist well into next week. Generally, showers, of snow and hail, the snow to a low level in Scotland, will become widespread most afternoons.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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from the Gorm - Temperature -2c, heavy snow falling at all levels. Hill fog with visibility 150 meters. Fresh snow overnight with freezing level currently 700 meters. Some drifting in places with the snowpack now firming up. The forecast is to go colder with snow showers, which will enable the groomers to patch up more easily when the snowpack firms up
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Poster: A snowHead
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kitenski, you still thinking about going up midweek next week?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Mosha Marc, thinking and watching the weather!
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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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I have to say, this thread routinely has some of the best pictures in the whole of this forum. Scotland is stunning and as an ex-pat Scot it makes me homesick (though I do recall the odd day of having to push to go downhill at Cairngorm, which wasn't so good!).
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Mosha Marc, if the last line in this forecast comes off with a bluebird day after I could well be up there faster than the Mrs can say "where are you off to now..."
Planning Outlook for all mountain areas from Saturday, 5th May, 2012
Very cold over the weekend and early next week. Showers of hail, and to a very low level in Scotland, snow will be widespread most afternoons - although on Saturday, mostly only flurries. The air will be very clear, with summits often free of cloud. Heavier perhaps thundery showers into next week, and increasing threat of persistent rainfall spreading slowly north across England and Wales, and perhaps most of Scotland - although the confidence is very low. There could well be widespread snow, particularly Scotland, where it may fall to a low level.
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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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arrived in aviemore at 18.30. had been trying to snow since dalwhinnie with the odd flurry hitting the windscreen - definitely snow not rain. in the village, thesunset is lovely and the odd flake is drifting past us. the 'gotm looks beatiful in the evening sun, as does the coire to the west - can't recall the name offhand. howver it does keep disappearing from view as the clouds drift across, which bodes well for tomorrow....
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well, a bad day on the piste is better than the best day in the office. Given that it's may, today was not bad at all. snow in the ciste is in pretty good nick where pisted, although the freeze / thaw cycle has left it quite hard where not pisted. You do get the odd pocket of drifted snow though which is quite nice. Coire cas has got great snow, the main problem is it doesn't reach quite far enough. The snowline is about 15m vertical above the bottom of the M1 poma. The t-bar is running with a loading point at the top of the gunbarrel, but getting out of the cas requires a skis-off walk to either the m1 or the funicular.
apparently the winch cat has been out this evening, pisting the coronation wall. Will have to see what tonight brings in terms of snowfall, but that chance to ski coronation might make the difference between us skiing tomorrow or doing something else - they really need snow to cover the approach to m1
anyway, these pics probably say more than all those words
May, in scotland. Not bad, eh?
Slight understatement
Tea and cake at Inshriach Nursery on the way down the hill. It's almost worth a 600 mile round trip just for this,
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CathS, great for those who were there last weekend (I couldn't make it, annoyingly), but I was just trying to give a realistic picture of current conditions for those thinking of coming up today...
re that middle pics, the image is maybe slightly misleading, it was skis off at the far corner of the first zig zag. you can ski a lot closer down 105, but the gunbarrel is empty
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Sorry, didn't mean to rub it in  Should have posted them up earlier in the week really.
It does look like it's lost a lot of cover at mid-level though.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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nbt, Pistes coronation wall is an interesting move, why haven't they left it as off piste???
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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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kitenski, got warm then cold without much new snow so was probably a bit rank.
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You know it makes sense.
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As Alans deep bath says, outside of the pisted bit, the coronation wall was a bit rank. Mrs NBT and I hiked to the summit and skiied down the wall, it was a bit horrible to be frank - there may have been tears involved, but we'll say no more about that. The pisted bit (accessed by traversing around from the top of the Ptarmigan tow on a likewise pisted traverse) was great though, really nice to get some steep skiing in
As for the rest, the snow was much nicer today, just that little bit softer to allow for easier turning. They;d made an effort to push snow down the 105 but there was still a walk required to the m1 poma. that poma stopped for a while around 3pm, and there was a 5 minute stoppage on the Ptarmigan around lunch, after which as we went up we had to avoid the carnage of a rope snapping! The t-bat was puliing two guys fair enough but neither looked to be too fond of pies! Neither seemed hurt, thankfully,
barring a major overnight dump of snow, I don't think we'll be skiing tomorrow - it's been fun, but with a 6 hour drive home I think we'll go see the ospreys at loch garten and then make our way home through Braemar and glenshee, perhaps.
he forecast though is for major storms to hit the uk this week and that will probably mean another foot or so of snow this week, so next weekend could be worth considering. There are some pretty good bargains in the shops in town too...
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Looks like a promising holiday Monday:
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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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HighRustler, liking your work 
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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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In the Ptarmigan, been snowing most of the afternoon on CairnGorm. Some drifting up top on South winds blowing fresh in to the Ptarmigan and Ciste Bowls. Fiacaill was the pick of the day though, superb spring snow.
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HighRustler, fantastic! great skiing!
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HighRustler,
Those photos are absolute quality, craving some scottish skiing next year after miss timing it this year
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There's more snow forecast, brilliant for anyone who can get up there.
Now could someone please settle an argument please. nbt says that skiing the 'off piste' from the very top off 'Coronation wall' was/is a red, I say a black? It certainly felt like a black in the conditions we skied it in.
However the last 3rd was sheer bliss and really enjoyable in the good snow, top was hard packed with a 1cm of new snow and felt crunchy underski. Yes I did cry, must WTFU!
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Scottish red?
I skied off the top down to the col and then down somewhere between Coronation Wall and the Headwall, and the steep part of that definitely felt 'black' to me.
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