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Managed to visit for a few hours this afternoon, yet again another superb day. Piste's are in very good condition.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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oldagedpredator, quad chair next season at this rate? 
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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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The linking of Harwood and Yad Moss by the worlds longest rope tow to create a pennine super resort is more likely 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Alpe de Yad
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Peter S, Are you thinking of Cairngorm for the May bank holiday? I'm trying to get a goodly number of snowheads up there. 
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easiski, when is May Day? That could be a good meetup - will there still be snow?
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easiski, please put me on your list for mayday in scotland.
Perhaps a sticky thread along the lines of the Bash threads in the appropriate section would catch people's attention?
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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.
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This was weekend 13 of the pennine ski season - I've managed 23 weekend days, think I'm somewhere round mid thirties for total days. If it wasnt for the wind today the skiing would have been great. Looks like Yad will loose Outer Barrel (Limits) - snow is fracturing between the swamp ponds at the top - and the enclosure run. Impaler, main run and sunset boulevard should see next weekend - so long as rain doesnt come with this heat wave. Going cold again after next weekend. Still life in the season yet but you can hear the streams coming back to life.
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You know it makes sense.
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anywhere opening mid week this week?
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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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Yad Moss website says no, weardale prob wont make it through the current thaw, doubt allenheads will. Harwood is going to be the one to watch.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Webcam update this afternoon from Yad Moss looking like main run is complete to bottom. Still full width between the fences at the top, seeming to show return via the cross over and the bowl still being possible.
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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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They've had 3 months of skiing at Yad Moss - now that's what you call a decent season !
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I'm really not sure on the total number of days but there are some interesting variations in the forecasts for next weeks - one of which might put a lot of snow alston way. MWIS outlook is also promising for the start of next week. There might just be one last pennine hurrah on the cards before the Yad finally go to sleep and it all just becomes a boggy old hillside.
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oldagedpredator, indeed, Paul the Weatherman on BBC yorkshire said on the local weather tonight that there is potential for snow next week, fingers crossed!
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just seen the snowforecast for the top of Yad Moss - may be wildly optamistic at over a foot of snow but netweather.tv is giving 14mm of precip in Alston - should be good for atlead 6" on the hill. Might still break the 2000 mark for the facebook group by the end of the season.
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so is the forecasted snow
a) going to reach the North Pennines?
b) be sufficient for the lifts to run?
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The honest answer who knows - todays rain was down as snow last week. The webcam shots from this morning looked like there'd been a couple of inches of snow and then back to rain. Weardale and Yad Moss can be skied with about 3" of cover. If the snow does come then cover is going to be more like the very start of the season. Shame the cover took so much of a kicking in the last 7 days as a couple of inches of snow would have meant great skiing. Now it might just mean we can ski.
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Looks like plenty of snow yesterday. Amazing. I don't post much but follow this thread with interest having never done any lift served skiing in England myself.
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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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Had a great couple of hours this morning, ok conditions weren't perfect, and vis was a bit dodgy at times, but it's still skiing 
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You know it makes sense.
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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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I drove past yad Moss on sunday after being in Scotland for the weekend. It looks horrible with no snow!!! Theree was no snow left at all really, just a few patches in hidden gullys a little further up the road, but that was it. Ah well, bring on next season!!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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That'll be the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty then .
I think its a fabulous part of the country, described by David Bellamy in his book as 'England's Last Wilderness'.
Still lots of snow on Cross Fell I imagine. There is a good chance this year of some patches persisting right through May and into June, above Greg's Hut. Still a patch of snow or two as far south as the Peak District and Berwyns according to this thread. http://www.winterhighland.info/forum/read.php?2,123567,page=4
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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when i said it looks horrible, i dont actually mean it in that sense. It was stunning up there on Sunday, but it would have looked much better covered in about 1m of the fresh white stuff!!!
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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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Think the peak ones will have been well and truly washed by now - its chucking it down here.
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Can i just ask, do you like my pics i took? I love the one with the cloud invertion on it. Im so looking forward to next season already, its not even may yet, HELP!!!
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Ricklovesthepowder,
When I had a bad dose of your affliction 2 years ago these people were a great help www.airnewzealand.com 
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We've just had a birthday and end of season party up at YM today and I can report that there are still a few tiny patches of snow around. Over on Cross fell there are still some quite big snow fields left. Hopefully we'll get up there in the next month or so to report on the situation.
It was a nice way to finish the season off with 40 of us celebrating our Piste basher drivers 30th birthday and perhaps the most sucessful Pennine skiing season for a generation 
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Peter S,
Excellent. Well done on a great season. Hopefully tou will get a few turns in May!!!
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Nice picture but how tall are those 3 people at the back ?
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hi is there anyone that drives from tyneside area who wants to share transport, i have a van and it is not good when roads are bad, im happy to take it when it has a chance of getting there but need help when roads are bad.
mostly mid week. i live just off the A69 at Ovingham.
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FAQ
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But don't feel sorry for me. I'll make do and look forward to more local skiing and a trip to Scotland, where the serious snow is, when I get back 
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(i want more snow)
