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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Excellent visibility, light winds and cool temperatures today. Should be good if limited skiing, available today at Glenshee. I suspect the snow will be quick!
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@mountainaddict, I dont think its dead, they need it to sell coffee and cake to summer day trippers...........
I dont know any regular Scottish skiers who seriously consider Cairngorm for lift served skiing now - I dont believe the management really care any more, sadly.
I prefer Glenshee and Glencoe anyway, both are simpler for a day trip for me.
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@mountainaddict, couldn’t agree more ref the Ptarmigan. Such a great area for beginners. Memories of teaching my son there.
The Cairngorm funicular situation is dire. How could they have got it so wrong? 
I’m up in Moray about an hour from Aviemore. Glenshee do-able and I’ve enjoyed some good days there. Glencoe too far, for a day trip anyway. Never been.
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| Glencoe too far, for a day trip anyway. Never been |
It's a great set up with some fantastic skiing amidst great scenery. Management committed to improving the facilities and experience too. Well worth a visit. You know it makes sense @Boofont 
What about Nevis Range? You been there? Also great on its day (despite going a bit to rack and ruin...). The Back Corries can be like the Vallee Blanche!
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Only been Nevis Range once, over 20 years ago. It was so windy. If I recall we only did a few runs then came back and got out money back. Again, it’s a 2.5 to 3 hour drive.
Sadly I think the reality is that Scottish skiing is on its last legs. A bit off-topic but it’s also sad that the indoor place at Braehead (forget the name) has closed.
Here’s a pic from 2016 from the top of Cairngorm to remind us! My son, now 16.
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I think the funicular is dead. They need 2 to 3 chairs on the main uplift and one from the Ciste car park. The plateau is the most snow sure area in Scotland but no way to get there. Just spend the money on traditional uplift and not a white elephant.
At Glenshee the council need to allow cars with all season tyres and chains through and not just shut the road because someone in their 4x4 with summer tyres gets stuck.
Just now, at Glencoe the hill is filling in but not enough snow for lift accesses skiing just now.
At least at Glencoe they are investing. There is a new ski school head and a new annex to reduce queues. They have now installed a new ticket system where you just rock up and scan your booking.
Last year they installed a new chair.
Contrast that with Nevis. Only ski hire at the weekend. No ski school anymore.
Just my personal opinion. I only go to Glencoe and Glenshee these days.
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This was over the back at Glenshee today. The summit is Cairn O Claise and the best skiing we found today was descending from the sunlit ridge to the left of the pic. Nice granular snow (but a bit thin) on a very hard base gave some nice turns
Looking back towards Banana Gully at the top of Glen Isla. The gully is filled in but would probably need a brave soul to ski it just now 
No wind today made for a memorable Scottish day on the hill 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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It's another disaster season for Scotland.
Little snow, cr*p lifts, hostile / inept govt.
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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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| Whitegold wrote: |
It's another disaster season for Scotland.
Little snow, cr*p lifts, hostile / inept govt. |
When you have less than no idea why post your s#it€?
Through the history of Glencoe as the oldest commercial ski area, the AVERAGE opening date is 16th January. the very first season in 1956 didn’t start until 20th February. There have been seasons that have begun later in the year than other seasons have finished.
On CairnGorm there is a less than 50% chance of skiable snow on Christmas Day, while much more likely on New Year’s day. But for the funicular crap show the season would have actually got underway weeks ago. It’s a legitimate argument that money has been vastly misdirected because of the self protectionism of HIE, a hostile government to snowsports is a pretty absurd claim given the £££ spent.
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Right about the lifts though, they are crap. Lol. 
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You know it makes sense.
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@Whitegold, posting p1sh again.
Pic from the top of the main basin lift at Glencoe .
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@GlasgowCyclops, Nice. Just been on winterhighland, no snowsport as yet by the looks of it. I really should try and get over there sometime. Only time I've been near there was on a trials bike doing the Scottish Six Day Trial! That would have been at the bottom of the chair that takes you up to what I presume is the start of the ski area? I notice you've got Moray down as one of your locations, I'm there too.
Obviously really cold right now with this high sitting over Scotland. Lets hope the temp stays low but we get some snow coming in. Hopefully temps won't rise and kill the base layer. Ever the optimist I suppose...
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Poster: A snowHead
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Was at Glenshee today and glorious in the sun but extremely limited skiing.
Small dusting of new snow overnight freshened up what pistes there were and afternoon on Sunnyside the pistes softened up a little.
Basically apart from the beginners slopes there was one piste off Claybokie and three off Sunnyside - so 3 greens and an easy blue.
It was a little disappointing that they were charging full price day tickets for the experience - pretty sure they will get more punters if they reduced it with such limited area available but for me today I needed a day concentrating entirely upon drills so was always going to be a bit tedious  even with more to go at.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Boofont, I live in Glasgow but my mother in law is in Burghead and I go there for weeks at a time. It used to be Asia for 10 days every month for years 
@dode is in Elgin so another local. Where are you?
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@GlasgowCyclops, Elgin also.
Some change from Asia to Burghead!
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| snowheid wrote: |
| It was a little disappointing that they were charging full price day tickets for the experience - pretty sure they will get more punters if they reduced it |
That's a bit off really. Of course they have overreads and operating costs but to expect people to pay full price with limited snowsport available is pretty crap. It looks like Cairngorm are doing the same.
Regarding the funicular at Cairngorm, grabbed this from yesterdays report on Winterhighland. Reads as if there may be some good news soon?
"We are still waiting on information from the contractors and our parent company on when the Mountain Railway may be handed back to us. As soon as we do, we will let you all know."
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| We are still waiting on information from the contractors and our parent company on when the Mountain Railway may be handed back to us |
Handed back and handed back in full working order are two rather different things. Or the fully working handover date might be...2028
Meanwhile, the upper lift tracks appear to have been pisted at Glencoe If the two people visible in the main basin are ski touring, they could be in for a good day.
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Turning very cold next week across the UK. The cold dry north westerly airstream may favour heavy showers at Glencoe which won’t need a lot more to get their season started. Hopefully Glenshee will get the little bit more it needs to open out to the Caenlochan. Westerly showers should also help fill the Cairnwell runs. Glenshee could be the most sheltered ski area at the start of next week.
Winterhighland is a great source for Scottish ski related information https://www.winterhighland.info/general/
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@Peter S, Fingers crossed - for one reason and another I am not getting to the Alps this season so hoping for a good Scottish season.
I am lucky as I am self emp so am looking forward to some quiet quiet, bluebird midweek days !
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| I am lucky as I am self emp so am looking forward to some quiet quiet, bluebird midweek days ! |
Yes, when it's good, you've just got to drop everything and make the most @GreenDay! This was when we did so last season - Cairngorm in Dec '22 and Glencoe in Jan '23
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@mountainaddict, I love that pic on Glencoe, you feel like you are on top of the world on days like that !
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Great pics guys.
I think we would all agree, get Scotland on a good day and it's as good as anywhere! Yes, lifts are pump, but then there's something quite exciting about getting launched four foot in the air as the poma gets picked up by the wire!
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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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| Boofont wrote: |
| Yes, lifts are pump.... |
Being an old fogey I'm not familiar with that adjectival use of the word 'pump', presumably it means cr@p or something similar?
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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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Lesley McKenna is an inspiration, for sure.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Still not enough snow at Glencoe, a little more at Glenshee, but light snow forecast later today.
Getting a lot colder and snow forecast over the next week which is really positive.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Quite a few snow showers throughout the day on and around Ben Lawers today. Not a huge accumulation but very welcome.
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Cairngorm and the lecht will pick up more snow overnight from the northerly but Glenshee already has 4 Pomas and a chairlift running and doesn’t need much more snow to get Tom Dearg and Caenlochan going. Fingers crossed.
https://www.ski-glenshee.co.uk/Snowroad-webcams
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Trend towards cool if not cold Westerlies by end of the week into next week. If we get into cold zonality then it’s jackpot time for the West Coast mountains. Little snow has made it down to Nevis or Glencoe so far today, but already can see on the Coe webcams things drifting in from the NW, which is exactly what is needed to fill the gaps from the SEly snowfalls earlier this month.
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Currently minus ten at the summit on Cairngorm. I think the record low there is only -12c, so quite a rare event.
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@Peter S, -12? Surely it’s been colder than that? Can’t recall exactly but I think it was 2010 when there was a frost for about a month over Moray. Granted, it was my car, but I was seeing -12 and that was about 6 miles inland from the Firth. I may be wrong of course. Often the case.
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"The coldest temperature is −26.9 °C (−16.4 °F) on 6 March 2007. Daytime temperatures staying below 0 °C (32 °F) all day occur most frequently between October and May but have been observed during every month of the year."
I remember several times -18 mornings in Braemar when I was doing the munros
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Cairnwell t bar now open at Glenshee giving a reasonable selection of runs
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