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going to leave it tomorrow due to the forecast... might have bother getting home to the central belt
mid week likely though 
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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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Ricklovesthepowder - May see you up there next week if you and milnerhome decide on a trip
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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yes its a possibility, I will need to see how much money i have and if he can make it. Can you recommend anywhere cheap but nice to stay?
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Sunday 6.00am SNOWGATES CLOSED AT GLENMORE - ROAD FROM AVIEMORE TO GLENMORE IS ATROCIOUS - THERE IS SEVERE DRIFTING FROM THE SUGAR BOWL UP AND WHITEOUT CONDITIONS AT CAR PARK LEVEL - AT THE MOMENT AND WITH THE FORECAST ANY OPERATION COULD BE SUBJECT TO LENGTHY DELAYS
Still like this at 9am
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Not looking good! More snow here than there had been for a few years. Proper snow on the beach which is a rareity!
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Welcome to CairnGorm Mountain
SKI AREA STORMBOUND - SNOW GATES CLOSED AT GLENMORE FOR THE DAY. We will try for an update early tomorrow morning. However delays can be expected.
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Was up yesterday and it was amazing  excluding last year, some of the best snow I have ever skied. we got up for about 10am and at that point the vis was good. My friends went off down the White Lady and I went down the traverse for a warm up as it was my first time back on skis, there was just powder everywhere! Second run went down the White Lady, fantastic but a bit tiring on the legs for the second run of the season. You could ski everywhere, the fences are already covered in places, I got lost skiing down the M1 at one point in bad vis and skied right over the fence without realising, the Gunbarrel is also amazingly full. The vis disappeared in the afternoon but it was only totally flat light for a short while so still a great day. Everyone seemed a bit amazed at the amount of powder and there was lots of happy faces, lets hope it keeps up!
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| shoogly wrote: |
Welcome to CairnGorm Mountain
SKI AREA STORMBOUND - SNOW GATES CLOSED AT GLENMORE FOR THE DAY. We will try for an update early tomorrow morning. However delays can be expected. |
I am a big fan of Scottish skiing. It is surprisingly enjoyable and beautiful.
But the organization is pathetic.
When it does not snow, everywhere is closed because they can't be bothered to buy a few snowguns.
When it does snow, everywhere is closed because they can't be bothered to clear the roads and the lifts are cr*p.
It is astonishing that all the locals put up with such thirdrate service.
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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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I have considered driving up to the resorts in Scotland many times, but as Whitegold says, they are closed too often when it snows, so it puts me off making the move to get in the car. They must lose quite a bit in tourism with this approach to managing the resorts...
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Unfair critisism.
You didn't have to be a weather geek to know the chaos that was going to go on across a large part of Scotland due to the forecast exceptionally heavy snow and you'd have had to ignored just about every bit of media information not to have known what was coming. I did do a sense check this morning just in case the things didn't turn out to be as bad as outlooked but the Central Belt was more or less stationary with the M8 and M9 at one one lane only where not closed, the A9 and A93 were closed anyway (from Perth!!) & with no let up in the heavy snow anytime today, it was obvious that it was going to be a no go.
Remember that it's still autumn, chill out and enjoy the winter to come. 
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You know it makes sense.
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| moffatross wrote: |
Unfair critisism.
You didn't have to be a weather geek to know the chaos that was going to go on across a large part of Scotland due to the forecast exceptionally heavy snow |
Scotland sucks, dude.
Time to get real.
They get 30cm and everything shuts down for a whole day.
That's not acceptable in the modern world.
As monotokpoint says, it makes the Scotland brand look bad and costs your country millions of lost revenues.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Whitegold, monotokpoint, I think the problem stems, at least in part, from the road clearing being down to local councils who have no financial interest in the ski resorts (other than business rates of course). While it is tempting to suggest that the resorts should get their own snow ploughs/blowers and clear the roads themselves, I suspect their insurance could be a problem as I've no doubt the roads departments would be suing them for any damage they cause to roads or road furniture.
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Poster: A snowHead
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monotokpoint. Exactly, and then you stop bothering to consider it.
We pencilled in three trips to Scotland, season gone, but couldn't get assurances on road conditions, hill status etc. Unlucky, maybe, but on one of the occasions we instead booked a late trip to europe and spent our money there.
OK coming of the back of several bad snow years, you could cut them some slack. But modern business just doesn't operate like that, the "smalltown" organisation just sucks. They should be making hay, not excuses. When are they going to realise that to make Scottish snowsport a reality, beyond those that live within a couple of hours drive, at the drop of a hat, and still risk being disappointed, more forethought, and money, are needed. But maybe that's it, maybe some don't.......
So it's partially a squabble between the Local Authority and CML about who clears the snow? Pathetic. But sums it up nicely.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yep, def agree, they cry about no snow, and then when we get it!!!!!!!!!. They need to be able to seize the moment, as you've said BC I live a couple of hours away and I still can't get there. The local councils and the resorts need to think hard about this lost business not just for the resorts but the nearby villages and towns. Right thats my rant over, Im away to build a snowman 
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Weather on the mountain is by no means bad today by 'Gorm standards, but a moderate SE wind and such light powder is enough for it to be whiting out completely on the link road and approaches to the Cas Carpark and I don't mean whiteout like the media abuse the term - I mean where you can't see your own bonnet!
Too many modern cars are simply un-drivable on what should be passable roads - it is much easier to keep a road ploughed down to a passable depth of snow than to keep it black which becomes impossible in even moderate drifting and temps more than a couple of degrees below freezing.
The only solution is to impose restrictions requiring chains and/or snow tyres and leaving the road snow covered, because frequently even with several ploughs continuously circuiting the road will remain snow covered.
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To be fair the Saturday was by far the best day looking at the forecast. I went to Aviemore on Saturday, was at the ticket office by 10am and skied the whole day in lovely powder. The forecast for Sunday was awful so I decided not to go up today, not that difficult really, just a bit of common sense
Check mwis.org.uk for weather
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I have considered driving up to the resorts in Scotland many times, but as Whitegold says, they are closed too often when it snows
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We pencilled in three trips to Scotland, season gone, but couldn't get assurances on road conditions, hill status etc.
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Sorry but if you have enough time and knowledge to put over 100 posts on here, you can manage better research than this. The ski areas are pretty bad at getting the message out there but using mwis, the metoffice website, highland-instinct and winterhighland you could have organised some great trips. Last time I failed to go skiing, having set off, was 2007. Wasn't so bad as I lived in Glasgow then so would go for it in more marginal conditions 
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| what...snow wrote: |
| Sorry but if you have enough time and knowledge to put over 100 posts on here, you can manage better research than this. |
Sorry, but you're missing the point a bit.
I've done more "research" on Scotland, as a "destination" than possibly all the other places I've been to put together. I've asked questions on here, on WH, even HI (when you could). I've got MWIS and SAIS in my favourites, and browse WH daily this time of year. The changeable conditions no-one can get the blame for, and are an unavoidable pain.
But compounding the issue with half-arsed management is the main point of my, and other's, posts.
As I said, last season we were probably unlucky in that the three times a probable trip was on the cards, the conditions were poor. Good job europe was open.
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Whilst I have criticised the road clearing etc myself I think these comments are a little (at the least) over the top. I've had flights cancelled owing to Geneva airport closed, been stuck in the chalet because of road closures, had to put the snow chains on to get to telecabine, list days owing to high winds closing the same, crappy days owing to zero viz - all in the Alps.
It's not just Scotland.
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it's a wild thought.. but surely someone must have experimented with heli skiing in the highlands before?!
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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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Are people whinging about whingers?
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| heli skiing in the highlands before? |
^ Eric Langmuir did it the 1980s when surveying potential locations for the 5th ski centre.
They basically got free regin to tour Scotland for a few months with a heli.
Scottish Ski Club also arranged a few heli drops on Aonach Mor before the tows got built.
Last edited by So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much  on Sun 28-11-10 22:54; edited 1 time in total
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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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^yup - pics show exactly why the roads in Scotland are hard to keep open.
I just drove from Aberdeen to Edinburgh.
Weather conditions, caused by heavy drifting snow, were as tricky as I have seen anywhere (including winter in the alps working as a van driver).
In places visibility was down to about 10m or less.
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| Haggis_Trap wrote: |
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| heli skiing in the highlands before? |
^ Eric Langmuir did it the 1980s when surveying potential locations for the 5th ski centre.
They basically got free regin to tour Scotland for a few months with a heli.
Scottish Ski Club also arranged a few heli drops on Aonach Mor before the tows got built. |
has it been done since?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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also, anyone got a link to the photos which featured in the fall line article a few months back?
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milnerhome, check out the link in my sig 
Direct link to all the photos here
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thats the article I'm thinking of, just wondering if any of the pics had made their way into the public domain? I'm wanting to show them to some friends over in Canada.
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Oooh Doug you got there first - didn't know about that PDF, nice one
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ah perfect, cheers for the link that'll show all the haters!
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snobby brits!
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^ Aha, thought so!
To be frank why bother - is Scotland not better off without them?
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