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looks brilliant. you need to check your white balance settings on your camera though.
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brian
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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No need to go abroad. It won't be better than this... anywhere. 
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shoogly,
ok , not sure what happened today as the same camera has taken great fotos before , some were taken early morning in the shade today. Camera did seem to be getting a bit confused and the shutter would not work????? Any hints and tips greatly appreciated. Camera is a Nikon D5000 SLR , Cehcked white balance and it was set to Auto so should compensate for the snow and shade?
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amazing stuff ! 
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Fab photos & vid. Now - why cn't my parents live in Inverness or Perth instead of Bath?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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moffatross, how do you get youtube to display the song title/link to itunes? When I have put up vidoes with soundstracks youtube has removed them due to copyright issues???
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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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was at glencoe yesterday, first time i had been there.
not the best skiing i've ever had but the best laugh i've had in ages.
only the lower green run was pisted everything else was fresh. hardly anyone there are well.
untill some school kids turned up and had to queue for 3 minutes on occasion
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You know it makes sense.
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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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easiski, we could do a instruction for accomodation barter!
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OK now seriously going to head up to Glencoe early on Monday morning. Ski for the afternoon then back down to Stirling for work on Tuesday - bring it on
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Was up at Glencoe today. Snow superb, views from the top were not up to much though. Spring run and flypaper closed everything else open above the access chair.
Few queues for cliffhager chair when lower T-bar broke and queues for plateau tow everything else queue free with great snow.
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Skied Lecht yesterday and snow conditions are very good with softening spring snow. The visibility was very poor in hill fog but all open runs were ideal with no ice. The car park, however, is still quite icy so take car walking over the the lodge.
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Glencoe - Snow is great up top but below the Main Basin tows it is kinda sketch. Overall well worth the ticket cost. Visibility was terrible today - even when we left at 1 the clouds were hovering at the top of the access chair. Lost sight of the next Tbar up at times.
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Was at Glenshee on Saturday, nice soft spring snow everywhere, Glas Maol was open but unfortunately bad vis the whole day, pretty quiet though and not many queues despite there being some junior racing on.
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I was at Nevis today. where was everyone, it was so quiet, particularly when the forecast was for it to be brightest in the north west. Snow was a bit hard and chattery first thing but softened up really nice The vis was good most of the time right to the top of warrens and the goose but the summit was shrouded all day. had a look at chancer into back corries. Entry looked easier than usual but vis was shocking, so left it for another day!
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^ Nevis was looking a bit short of snow on the webcams though, maybe that put people off?
In fact webcam wise both Cairngorm and The Lecht are still looking absolutely loaded with the rest of the ski areas looking fairly average to good.
Looks like some decent days next week and the wind is looking okay as well and the forecasts seem to be predicting cold or even colder into the half-term too, could be good
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roga, We discussed that webcam yesterday. Although there is heather and grass sticking through the off piste on the front of the mountain, the goose is full down to 2/3 of the way down and that is a very large and wide ski area, even in the bottom 1/3 its no narrower than many of the runs elsewhere in scotland, the warrens run was in very good condition as was the short summit run so circuits were possible, but to look at that webcam you would think that it was going to be rock skiing. I dont want them to show a full snowy piste and say that conditions are perfect when they are not, but they must have put a lot of people off with that picture.
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DaveMcSki, interesting to read what you say. I know the runs at Nevis can be quite different lower down to further up so makes sense.
I think they may well be shooting themselves in the foot quite badly with that view of the mountain, might be time for them to think about moving the cam (or letting that one break!) so that view doesn't give any more people a false impression.
Glencoe is now looking pretty awesome on the cams though!
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You know it makes sense.
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roga, Glencoe is looking pretty sweet today, though unfortunately it looks like someone used a chisel to scrape ice of the webcam window!
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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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Sorry about the quality of the phone pics
Glas Maol today at 3 pm
Fifespud was introduced to scottish skiing today. He didnt say so but i reckon he thought it was better than the 3V or the 4V on account of the limited uplift meaning the pistes were not overcrowded!
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Wed 10-02-10 0:10; edited 1 time in total
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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He also got his Snowheads certificate of competence
We only skied the east side of the road at Glenshee today The snow cover had improve from last week on all runs and everything was skiable on the left of the Glas Maol tow- Full cover! it is fantastic.
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Glencoe was excellent today - where is everybody? Queues non existent and cover has improved through the week all the way down to the top of the access chair. 2 fair sized kickers built on the 'other' side of the plateau poma.
Pictures I will put in a separate report because I can't be bothered to resize and upload again...
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I'll be there tomorrow.
Cover definitely looks better than 2 weeks ago
Cheers
Bob
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moffatross, ahhhh I'd love to but got things to take care of at home 
No doubt you will have an excellent day - everyone was in good spirits. Great day to be out.
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Just back from Cairngorm. Absolutely fantastic. Tonnes of fresh soft stuff. The east wall, west wall, coronation wall - all brilliant. Great snow all the way down to the Coire na Ciste car park. Pretty quiet too, although as Roga said, they are expecting massive numbers next week. All the hire shops are refusing to take more bookings so equipment may well be in short supply too.
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