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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Also buses I should think - even cheaper. I've done bus to Aviemore before, many moons ago.
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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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nbt, trains are £120 one way.. no chance and buses roll in at pretty much a similar cost  looked at all the options for april time.
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milnerhome, need to book plenty in advance for cheap trains. For cheap buses look at Megabus.
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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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And well in advance is not what you do for Scottish skiing. I always end up driving, even though it seems stupid. With 2 people it is cheaper and gives you much more flexibility (you can ski all day and drive home into the night) and you can go to more than one centre.
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milnerhome, did you check out the trainline and the various options? I find that the first price it quotes is often not the best.
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Had a poke at the ScotRail website, using connections and the sleeper (seated coach) you can get a £113 off-peak return (searched from Huddersfield) leaving Friday 10pm and arriving back at 7am Monday.
If you have a Student / 16-15 Railcard, it's £75 for a open offpeak return.
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Wouldn't mind going up after exams are over.. no way of getting up though!  |
We will see, bet when we had our conversation back at the start of April, we wouldnt of dreamed about the possability of summer skiing at cairngorm in june, lol!!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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We are go for the 4th Weekend of May! despite the inevitable resumption of the spring thaw with the much milder then warm weather this week there is still Top to Middle riding on offer giving 1300ft of vertical.
There is a crew working on shaping and resetting the Ptarmigan Terrain Park (See video from last weekend, http://www.winterhighland.info/blog/) this afternoon, so it should have similar features to last week. There is still a wide cover in the Ptarmigan Bowl and though the snow is retreating off open slopes, still a big expanse to play on skiers right of the Ptarmigan Tow.
Traverse, 105 and Coire Cas should be pisted this afternoon. Uplift will be the Ptarmigan Tow for the Top Basin and the Funicular for the middle slopes. The White Lady is complete to the mid-station and the bumps will be somewhat mellower after the mid-week warm weather for the first runs on Saturday. Access to the Lady could be a bit of an adventure, unless it's now possible to get under the Funicular Track at the underpass - you'd have struggled to crawl under it last week!
For those with touring kit a huge variety of options abound still, there is huge cover on the Plateau for high level touring with lots of long snow fields to lower levels. Yesterday it was reportedly possible for tourers to go from the foot of the White Lady to Ben Macdui with just one brief skis off bit near the summit of CairnGorm.
Cloud has been coming and going today, there was some bright and sunny spells earlier, but it's overcast at the moment but the cloud base is well above the summits, so visibility and light is good. The forecast is for the cloud to break up more extensively on Saturday, but an outside risk of sporadic late afternoon thunderstorms - something to keep an eye on if going on long tours on the high tops.
It's currently overcast and +20c at the mid-station. Wax your planks and look out your shorts. 
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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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Wow!! That is what spring snowsports is all about, what a fantastic day of amazing spring snow on CairnGorm Mountain on Saturday. A day that was shorts and t-shirts weather from the moment you stepped out of the car.
Despite the hot weather this week there remains top to middle riding and 1300ft of vertical descent. The mid mountain was skiing beautifully on Saturday, the White Lady was fantastic from the off with sublime granular spring snow. Last weekend everyone was commenting on how the surface conditions had picked up from the weekend before, well on Saturday, the surface conditions had taken another step up.
Photos are now up on Winterhigland from today, a photo that sums it up:
^Ptarmigan Tow doing its thing on the morning of Sat 22nd May 2010.
More: http://www.winterhighland.info/pix/pixalbum.php?pix_id=645
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Winterhighland, wow 
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You know it makes sense.
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Nice and with the colder weather next week could we see June sliding!
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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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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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barry, got a link handy?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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barry, ta.
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It has been an immense season for Scotland.
I hope they manage atleast one day's official liftserved skiing in June.
Then they should market the cr*p out of how skiing was possible in Scotland from Oct to Jun, for an 8-month season.
And how their 700cm of snowfall was perhaps the most in all of Western Europe last season.
And hopefully they'll also pull their finger out and get installing more snowguns.
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I agree with you Whitegold, but somehow i dont feel they will do. They also need to reinstate the chair lifts at cairngorm, t-bars and pomas are not fun, the odd chair would make it a lot easier!!! An 8 month ski season in Scotland, jesus that is amazing if it could happen, i dont see why not!!!
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Can i just add, what are the current snow depths at Cairngorm, cant find them anywhere, it was 280 about 2 weeks ago, just wondering now with 2 weeks of warmish weather how the slopes are doing???
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Whitegold, absolutely.
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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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Was up at Cairngorm on Saturday with my son. Was expecting a quiet day messing around on Ptarmigan in the sun, or doing some spring bumps. What we got was lap after lap of Coronation Wall on perfect spring snow - about 1500ft vertical from CG summit to middle station (with some bonus bumps in the gunbarrel). Absolutely amazing and a bargain at £30 for the two of us.
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Ricklovesthepowder, the snowdepths at mid station is 50cm / 20" Location: Coire Cas at 2600ft. Last Measured: 23/05/2010
Previous: 80cm 15/5/2010
Previous: 100cm 08/5/2010
Previous: 150cm 26/4/2010
Previous: 165cm 20/4/2010
Previous: 160cm 16/4/2010
Previous: 165cm 14/4/2010
not sure about the top , but would expect still 100cm+ , sure Winterhighland, could let you know
and the forcecast for this week is more snow on wednesday
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You know it makes sense.
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It's amazing it's lasting, it was 26C in Ireland on Sunday.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Whitegold, Perhaps you should get up there and help them?  Ciste chairs need to be dealt with before snow cannons.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Some snow forcast this week acording to MWIS and winterhighland site. 
Cheers
Bob
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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?
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I was up last Saturday:
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Was expecting a quiet day messing around on Ptarmigan in the sun, or doing some spring bumps. What we got was lap after lap of Coronation Wall on perfect spring snow - about 1500ft vertical from CG summit to middle station (with some bonus bumps in the gunbarrel). Absolutely amazing.
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Exactly as we found it - incredible. In fact one of our best ever days on Scottish snow. There had been a lot of snow lost from the previous weekend so we're hoping the thaw might have slowed a bit this week with the cooler temperatures.
I wish the Gorm website would give an indication of whether this wekend is a possible goer (or non-starter) - we need to start making plans! Anyone heard any whispers 
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I think the Cairngorms website is one of the worst out. Truly awful.
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mountainaddict, with the forecast as is, it should definitely be a goer, nick over to Colin's blog (see link at top of homepage) and drop him a line, or keep an eye on winterhighland. Col has said they'll keep going as long as they can (snow lasting and punter demand - looks like they're still riding their luck on both counts too)
Ricklovesthepowder, did you make it up in the end? you had the nails chewed off at one point a few weeks back!
Whitegold, they've kept the fan they acquired temporarily this past season - it got fired up for a laugh a couple of afternoons a few weeks ago (it was buried the rest of the winter I think!)
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