 Poster: A snowHead
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YESSSS!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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YABBA DABBA DOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
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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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Apparently there was a wee dusting on Ben Wyvis, just north of Inverness this morning (that comes straight from Helen Rennie, otherwise known as h11lly)
Snow seems to be in the air the Highlands 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Alans deep bath, everywhere needs one of those!
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Alans deep bath, it goes on and on and on and on! 
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Wow awesome ... lot's lots longer than any I've been on before, where is that??????? Where is Mieders?
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Google Maps says Austria.
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Brill!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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stevew, seriously... It says Austria on the screen at the start... Short attention span?
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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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where is that? 
reckon Cairngorm could easy rig something onto the funi tracks - 1 on either track parallel GS style!
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What the hell is that? Are you strapped in?
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You know it makes sense.
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Ricklovesthepowder, dont be a f*nny, it'll be the little seat you get on rowing machines 
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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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It's like a kiddy's playride.
Anyone over 16 sitting on it is gonna look like a right loser.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Whitegold, a kiddies playride is a Raleigh Grifter (without brakes) from the Shieling to Loch Morlich............. I dares yer'. A nights free beer for a succesfull completion (subject to mutually agreeable dates & you provide your own in-sewer ants)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ricklovesthepowder, a swift google image search suggests there's some sort of harness or at least car seatbelt type affair on most of them. Otherwise it'd just be death surely...
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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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No brakes, really? Is he still going? I wonder where he is now?
Anyone really enjoy the high security pvc tape down the side of the track? You would have to build that thing 10ft off the ground in the UK to satisfy the H&S!
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Now we wouldn't be going a teensy weensy bit off topic would we
Just to get back on topic, the forecast is looking good right now, just took a look at MO (who frankly are OK at short range) and they are rating the chance of Blizzards & Heavy snow as high over the next 24 hours in the western and eastern Highlands, Saturday a bit warmer then:
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Very severe conditions across the East Highland area. Storm force west or northwesterly winds over higher parts along with temperatures below freezing above 500M will lead to severe wind-chill. Also frequent snow showers will produce temporary blizzard conditions over higher ridges and summits.
Monday
Cloudy with rain spreading eastwards across all parts during the day. Rain will be preceded by snow above 700M. Freezing level will rise above the summits during the day. Gale or severe gale force southwest winds on the summits.
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Overnight rain soon clearing, then drier and brighter but wintry showers will follow to west of the area. Strong to gale force southwesterly winds over the tops. |
MWIS is singing from the same hymn sheet too:
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Friday: Snow showers; perhaps very frequent, risk whiteout, lightning Showers from time to time: hail, snow above 500m and risk lightning. Threat around 2 hours of near constant heavy snow to a low level late morning/middle of the day, giving whiteout; this most likely southern Cairngorms NP west to Ben Alder.
Saturday: Rain, perhaps most of the day west of A9. Progressively east into Cairngorms NP, the rain will become very light and patchy
Sunday: Showers, with hail, possibly thunder, and above 600m snow, throughout the day. Fewest showers near Lochnagar.
Planning Outlook: All mountain areas of Britain from Saturday, 26th November, 2011
Intense Atlantic lows will pass close to northern Scotland, bringing long periods of often severe upland gales, and bands of rain (focussed on western Scotland), interspersed by showery weather.
Temperatures will oscillate: further mild periods, but increasingly also colder periods, especially across Highland Scotland, where there will be several freeze thaw cycles. By the middle of next week, cold conditions will be prevalent. Snow will increasingly build up on, particularly the north and western Scottish Highlands, with snow occasionally to a low level, and penetrating south to summits in England and Wales. |
So as predicted some temperature fluctuations but hopefully these will lead to a consolidation of the snowpack which will then be loaded up again with fresh as the next cold spell and storm moves in. Hopefully with all the wind around the gullies and natural snow fields should fill up too.
Not a bad prospect after the cr*p of the last few weeks and hopefully by the time this passes we'll have a colder period and the hills will be a lot whiter than they were up to now.
All good and I reckon the webcams might be well worth a look in the morning (if they haven't been blown away )
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Looks great, except it says current temperature 10c???
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Hmm I was thinking of doing Scafell on Sunday, would've been nice if the weather was going to be like it is this morning. Maybe not so nice on that forecast though...
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Yeah, did Snowdon and Crib Goch in October in similar (but warmer) conditions and it's not an experience I want to repeat soon! Although there is nothing quite like walking up big hills in really really cr@p weather to make you feel properly alive...
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and looking good here too 
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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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roga, can you ski anywhere near Aviemore though?
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You know it makes sense.
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Alans deep bath, can you ski anywhere near Glasgow though?
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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he's gettin all fancy with his productions - wonder where he put his skis on!!
full on blizzards bewtween avie and inverness today
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yes just home to Fife from Aviemore and the hills round about are surprisingly white. V exciting
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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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Good news, roga.
Looks like a Nov opening will not be doable but early Dec is good enough.
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I just saw this picture from last season of the Cliffy chair @ Glencoe ...
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Does that translate to brutal amounts of snow? Definitely looks like it to me...
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By the end of the weekend ...
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moffatross, let me know if you want to head up for a look around when the snow arrives... Happy to pay petrol/drive from Glasgow onwards.
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It certainly looks decent judging by that!!! 
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