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| Ricklovesthepowder wrote: |
| Just come back from our long weekend in the fleet valley near gatehouse of fleet, solway coast. There was a little bit of snow on cairnsmore of fleet 750m but nothing anywhere else.'driving on the a75 looking towards the moffatt hills they looked like they received a fairly big dump, all White!!! |
Yes, the daylight and sunshine revealed some nice views here & this is the view along Moffat Dale this morning. I've skied off several of those hills but there's probably only six inches of snow there just now so plenty of time (I hope). What's so exciting is that this is the second decent dump in ten days so there's snow on top of snow now, very unusual for mid November in the Southern Uplands I think.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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scotia, seriously? They kept that quiet ... mind you if I'd been up I'd have used my season ticket lol.
Shimmy Alcott, depends when you intend to head up, at the moment obviously Cairngorm because it's open but once the others open it's all open to debate. Do you have a date?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Or a quid if you lived locally with the strathy special offer. Used my season ticket, first day of the season for me. It was forecast to be reasonable weather, but it sat in cloud or snowed all day. Made skiing the Lady tricky as you couldn't spot the rocks or the best route.
CML haven't had time yet to do much in the way of piste perparation away from the pisted route down the traverse 105 and Gunbarrel, so no orange mats on the funicular towers where you cut across onto the Lady or wher you head back to the M1 poma. They make a good visual queue for where your going in poor vis. One of the lifties said they haven't got many/any of the winter staff in yet so are having to make do with the summer staff. The fitters were working on the M1 poma yesterday and by the end of the day the top half of the poma bars were all on, so the M1 poma should be ready to go very soon. Track looks complete though a bit thin just in the taqkeoff area.
I've got a few piccies, but not worth posting as the quality is low due to all the mist and snow.
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roga, a 'complementary ticket' apparently.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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moffatross, what a stunning picture
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Apparently there's been an avalanche on the Cas headwall, from the Cairngorm site:
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Latest Update - Monday 15th November
Avalanche flags flying at top station. An avalanche has been triggered on the Headwall, please stay away from this area. |
Blimey! 
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brian
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that looks like a fairly decent amount of snow at the top, a foot maybe? 
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Rick, fancy a trip up soon? 
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haha, good minds think alike!!! When we get a good amount up there we shall head up for a weekend slide, you still not drive?
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Ricklovesthepowder, Before Christmas?
Nah, need too get round to taking the test
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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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If the snow is good then yes before christmas i dont see why not. I have 1 day of holiday to take and i will be using it to ski in britain somewhere, not sure where yet though!!! Lets keep an eye on the weather and see how things go. Would your mate be up for it again to share petrol costs etc?
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You know it makes sense.
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milnerhome, Ricklovesthepowder, give me a shout when you are thinking of going slightly longer drive for me... stupid question alert, but can i hire outside peak season?
p.s. I could poss get some accomm here if that's handy for it?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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MoodyFFS, good location for Aviemore, in the village maybe 10 mins walk from the very centre. Ski hire not yet up and going on the hill but one of the shops in the village are going already and the rest (including the hill) will be following suit pretty quickly
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Poster: A snowHead
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barry, cool thanks I get free weeks all over the place so might put a request to hold some if it comes up any time soon. Thanks for letting me know about the ski hire too 
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MoodyFFS, yeh you can hire all the time. Some options at all hills although in my experience of Nevis, Glencoe and Glenshee the on-hill hire can be fairly sh*t if you're not there at a decent hour.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Rain or shine I'm heading up for the first time on Friday, they say they're going to stay open all week 
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scotia, fairly sh*t would be perfectly apt!
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I love this time of year when the first snow starts to fall. Hope it is a sign on things to come!
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Great pics all round
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looking forward to spending 2 weekends per month up in the Scotland this winter doing demos. lets hope the Scotish resorts will welcome us.
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Dot., very exciting, keep us posted
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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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Oh the lecht. how you dissapoint me !
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You know it makes sense.
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Looks like Lecht has taken a hit. 
Cairngorm low down has reduced but there is snow forcast fo rtoday and tomorrow.
Glencoe is going to get a lot today and tomorrow.
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glasgowcyclops, where did you find that? Snow-forecast reckons its only going to amount to 2cm total with a bit of drzzle
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Poster: A snowHead
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The Lecht is low so will always take a hit when things warm up a little so no surprise there, the snow was pretty thin there anyway so it's to be expected.
Yeah, Cairngorm low down has lost some but there will be some snow falling as well. Most weather models are predicting a cooling into next week and have been surprisingly consistent in that, however there's always room for the weather to wriggle out of that one so keep watching and we can't tell until closer to the time exactly how much snow might fall.
rambotion, Snow-forecast.com is simply an amalgum of the latest charts so snowfall information, certainly for Cairngorm and I'd say Scotland generally, is not particularly reliable and will change (it's now 3 rather than 2 cm), usually the snowfall amount is considerably greater than they predict just before any event and temperatures are a degree or two adrift (usually warmer). However it is IMHO a useful indicator of what the charts are predicting but do take it with a pinch of salt up until immediately prior to anything it's predicting.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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roga,
will there be any decent kickers by mid-december time? Obviously depending on snow, but what usually happens?
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rambotion, BBC weather, and the webcams
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milnerhome, we're usually lucky if there's skiing mid-December 
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milnerhome, I very much doubt it to be honest - usually it takes them a while to get round to building them and they don't appear until Jan/Feb.
If you take a shovel with you though ...
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If I'm planning on a cheeky two nighter 4/5 December - should I risk Scotland or not?
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brian
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Shimmy Alcott, I think there'll probably be some snow, you've still got the risks of blocked roads and stormbound mountains. If you're happy with the fallback of a bracing walk and a fireside malt instead, then go for it!
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brian, TBH I really want to ski
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Shimmy Alcott, there's no way anyone could guarantee there will be enough snow to keep you happy.
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