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moffatross,
I'll be there on Sat
Heading off in 30 mins.
Black helmet with Sundown goggles
brown moah or red haglofs jacket
black columbia trousers
red lange boots
black rossi zenith 10's (the ones with the extention power arms)
Say hello.
cheerss
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?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I'll post my pics from my phone later.
Legs hurt..... Had a Great day. Was inside at 1pm having pie and beans 
Cheers
Bob
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Weird I have an identical pic as in number 5. Just at the gap in the etive glades you can zip through.
cheeers
bob
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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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Skied Cairngorm today and conditions are very good. We arrived at 8:50am and the top car parks were full (the Ciste car park was also 1/3 full). The shuttle bus had us up to the Day Lodge within 15 minutes and even though the funicular was running slowly because of a computer problem the trains were leaving the station every 12 mintues or so (quicker than normal).
Most runs have firm, almost squeaky snow with the Ciste Bowl and Fairway in excellent condition for beginners. Aonach Bowl down to Over Yonder was very good, as were Cas, Gunbarrel and White Lady with just a few areas of lumpy ice. Visibility at the top was very poor (around 30m at times) but by half way station conditions were good.
All in all a great day's skiing with some nice off piste areas on the West Wall side of the mountain on the way back to the Ciste car park.
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Just to raise awareness here, for anybody interested/concerned about the future of snowsports at CairnGorm, there is now an online petition for the reinstatement of the Ciste and West Wall Chairlifts.
We need to generate momentum before we can take the next step, and what's important now is that people sign the petition to demonstrate support. And ask others to do likewise.
The petition can be found at www.savetheciste.com
I'd encourage all of you to sign it.
Cheers all,
Jamie.
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firstracks,
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Myself dropping in
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By gum that looks steep!  What is the gradient? The visibility looks a bit 'interesting' too. Eek.
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Not sure what the gradient was I'm afraid - I'm useless at estimating angles, other than to say "pretty steep" 
Visibility was actually alright. The cloud came down on us unfortunately, but the light was never flat.
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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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I thought Rick loves the powder?
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You know it makes sense.
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It makes me feel sick when I see conditions like that when I'm at work! 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Was at Glencoe today, lovely day, bluebird skies until about 2pm and lots of lovely fresh snow, thya must have had about a foot of fresh the other day
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Easiski - I know I shouldn't be greedy as I get to ski most weekends but not skiing on days like that brings a tear to
my eye and a lump to my throat!
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Apparently its going to pour with rain this weekend and every spot of snow in the Cairngorms will disappear. Its going to be especially bad on Sunday so I wouldn't bother going if I were you. Me and my young lad are going to get on the first poma/funicular just to check out how bad it is. Will publish the horrendous pictures on Monday so you can all be glad you missed it.
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brian
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Fifespud, very noble of you. 
In a similar vein, I volunteer to take one for the team and endure the horrendous conditions at Nevis tomorrow. Everyone else rest easy, have a long lie, it'll be rubbish so you won't miss anything.
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Couple of inches of snow in Aberdeen today, so probs some freshies around tomorrow...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Peter S, WOW
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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 you didn't know it was Scotland it could be anywhere in the Alps! Amazing hope I can get up there this year!
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You know it makes sense.
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No mention of Scotland in this week's weatherHead! What a travesty given the conditions just now!
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Astonishing conditions.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Stevew you are so right. It is exactly like the Alps. OK the areas don't have the total expanse of most Alpine resorts, but if you live relatively local (like me!) then the chances are you are only there for a day. You think totally differently about it. When you are on holiday in the Alps, if you get a flat light day, you feel gutted, even angry, its not fair. When you are skiing on your doorstep, you can either not go if the weather is not perfect, or (how I feel) go, and you are just so grateful that there is snow. I find myself working on my technique, these are bonus days, you are just amazed to be on the snow. Roll on Sunday!
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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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easiski, totally agree 
Today at Cairngorm was simply sublime (and much of the last week has been the same), in all seriousness the Alps or anywhere else I've been couldn't better it ... bluebird, squeeky snow, hardly any wind and skiable terrain everywhere!
Climbed up to Cairngorm summit with my daughter (10) and from there could see Nevis to the west (along with the back corries at Aonach Moor) with the other highest peaks in the country in the foreground, and to the east the ocean so literally was seeing from one side of Scotland to the other. Skied from there all the way down to the Coire na Ciste car park, a distance of something like 4.7km with sublime snow all the way, spent the rest of the day lapping the various runs that are now open and hardly retraced a single step because you could vary it so much each time!
AMAZING, AMAZING stuff and anyone who suggests Scotland can't be as good as anywhere else in the world had better watch out 'coz I'm gonna argue the toss with 'em!
This sums it up really, I asked my daughter at the end of the day if she thought skiing Scotland was as good as France and Austria (where she has skied a few times) - her answer was "MUCH BETTER"!!!
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roga, - you are obviously buzzing after a great day in the mountains - I will have to get up there next month , I had three years in a Norwegian ski School based in Glenshee many years ago and have some very fond memories - some of the photo's have been amazing I do hope my trip to Austria next week end gives me the powder that you guy's have enjoyed today 
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As Roga says, Cairngorm was fantastic today with no wind and clear skies apart from about 15 minutes of hill fog first thing. Lovely squeaky snow across the whole mountain and although the Ciste car park was half full by 0845 the tows had only small queues.
On the Ciste side, Ciste Bowl and Fairway are in brilliant condition for beginners and Ciste Gully and the newly pisted Coire Laogh Mor are very good for more advanced skiers. There is some excellent off-piste skiing between No 1 and No 2 Gully with plenty of untracked areas from the top of Laogh Mor dropping into the Ciste Gully. The route back to the Ciste car park is still in great condition.
Traverse was a little icy but 105, Cas, Zig Zags and the Lower Slopes were very good. If only every Cairngorm day was like today!
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Fabulous.
Could be heliskiing in the Canadian Rockies. Private heli of course with just two tracks
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Nice day at Nevis today ... sunny, cold & calm. Looked at the back corries but I didn't have enough confidence, my legs were already knackered from yesterday & I also woke up this morning with shrunken balls so after one look over the back, I decided to stay on the front of the mountain this time. I've missed a turn over there on a previous occasion and fallen a long way and with some of the stonework today looking a little bit too prominent, I'm going to wait for it to fill out a bit more.
There were turns to be made on more or less untouched snow between Warrens and Nid & lapping the Nid ridge itself was brilliant.
More photos here ...
http://www.winterhighland.info/publicreports/index.php?50,2034
Boarder on the cornice ...
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Ignore! Double post!
Last edited by You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net. on Mon 22-02-10 1:04; edited 1 time in total
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More epicness on the 'Gorm today despite the mid-day hicup on the lift front which left lengthy queues for a time to get up and out from the Daylodge. The Funicular spat it's dummy and the Fiacaill Ridge Poma didn't so much throw it's toys out of the pram, but through it's bullwheel on the deck!
On the whole still amazing surface conditions to go with the cover. Though the Daylodge and OverYonder runs were icy between the fences where heavy traffic had been scrapping the snow off, bit odd that they are on completely opposite aspects - but elsewhere apart from the odd hard patch it's pretty much just a fab mix of machine and skier packed powder, skier tracked powder further off the beaten track and there are still fresh lines to be had further out if the excellent weather holds, which it's forecast to for Monday.
With the fantastic cover and amazing weather/visibility people have been spreading out far and wide such that five of the Northern Corries are seeing action from the lifts from the ridge beyond Coire Laogh Beag in the East, all around Coire Laogh Mor, Coire na Ciste, Coire Cas and over to Coire an t-Sneachda in the West.
^Skier Packed Powder in Coire Laogh Mor. The Laogh Mor Return has been pisted to several machine widths so there is excellent groomed and ungroomed lines giving up to 3 miles of descent over 2000 vertical feet. Though pisted please bare in mind this route takes you well beyond the Ski Patrolled Area - so it's advisable not to do it alone.
^Looking up the West Wall Chairlift and Poma from the bottom of OverYonder.
^Skier tracked powder miles beyond the lifts in Coire Laogh Beag, seen from the machine groomed motorway that is the Laogh Mor Return.
^The Traverse from the head of Coire Cas, lower reaches of Coronation Wall to the right, East Lady beyond.
^Dusk on Loch Morlich as the very last rays from the sinking sun strike the ridge lines and tops on CairnGorm Mountain.
More Pix: http://www.winterhighland.info/pix/pixalbum.php?pix_id=604
Lots more from around Scotland (and England) in the Public Reports at http://www.winterhighland.info/publicreports/
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The weekend will be great though. 
Glas Maol: utterly amazing. All that needs said.
