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moffatross , i,m not sure but it seemed to much to be piste clearance debris , if you look at pic 10 you can see in the distance .the whole left side seems to have come down.
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Does anyone have any advice for this wkend?
There are 4 of us planning on coming over on Fri evening and staying to Sun evening(from Co. Antrim). 2 of us are keen to get a couple of off-piste lessons if poss, the other 2 have only 1 week skiing so need plenty of blues and reds and maybe a bit of instruction too. I skied Glenshee a few times about 15 or 20 years ago, but that's the total of my knowledge! Is there anywhere we should avoid this weekend for any reason, and is there anywhere that would suit us more than others? Accommodation tips are welcome too.
Thanks guys.
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moffatross, It was a cornice collapse/Avalanche I was there on Monday afternoon and it was just being cleared at that time. prior to that the run onto which it fell had been closed. The lift was running but the only piste available was immediately adjacent to the tow.
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Is it worth taking a solo mission up north somewhere tomorrow (tuesday)? My friends are shitebags... 
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Was at Nevis today and had a great time.
Do I really have to go to work tomorrow... 
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Send some south please 
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moffatross , i,m not sure but it seemed to much to be piste clearance debris , if you look at pic 10 you can see in the distance .the whole left side seems to have come down
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That looks quite substantial from your pic, looks like the remaining part could go also.
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There had definitely been a wee avalanche at the bottom of Rannoch Glades, just above Mug's Alley at Glencoe. I took a photo on Sunday & I'll try & load it on the computer today or tomorrow.
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Amazing day at Cairngorm yesterday, many places rock hard but the sun and lack of wind made up for it.
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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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brian
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easiski, cool, I like skiing in May.
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You know it makes sense.
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It was a beautiful day at Cairngorm today but conditions were very hard and icy on nearly all runs. The top of the Ciste Gully and White Lady are icy but still smooth with nice clean moguls (as usual) towards the bottom, but Aonach Bowl and Ryvoan (accessable via a West Wall traverse) were full of lumpy ice. M1 was the only red I didn't ski but I expect conditions would be similar to Lady but without the moguls.
The Fiacall and Cas runs were also icy with a reasonable amount of frozen crud in places. The M2, however was pretty soft at the top but firmed up towards the top of Over Yonder.
On top, the Ciste Bowl and Fairway are firm but softening and are by far in the best condition of the runs I skied. On the downside, the tow queues were very long due to kids skiing lessons but dropping onto the M2 or Ciste Gully gave access to the West Wall Poma which was very quiet.
Speaking of the West Wall, the icy conditions make it very difficult to ski with the cross tracks from the Ciste Gully to the West Wall Poma.
Hard work but a lovely day on the mountain. If the temperature rises another 2 or 3 degrees we will have some excellent spring snow!
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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
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| bobinch wrote: |
Mike Pow, or "If you have a good day at Glencoe you'll remember it!" unwritten postscript "cos you won't have another one for 20 years"  |
Jesus man you've got balls of steel, that sort of negativity about Scottish skiing gets you flamed to a cinder on here usually.
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Wonderful bluebird day at Glen Shee today, runs very icy first thing in the morning but softened up nicely later on. Long may it last!
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John Clark and Nick Fellows were giving Scottish skiing a good plug on Eurosport today. good for them! 
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brian
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Sounds like a plan indeed
I think i'm gonna head up to Cairngorm next week, probably thursday. It'll be the first time i've skied there but will mean i'll have skied all the scottish ski centres in 1 season after skiing the Lecht Last week for the first time
It's been an awesome season for me. First time skiing in the alps in Soll and the best season in Scottish history
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If CairnGorm Mountain is skiing in May it will the 7th consecutive Calendar month in which snowsports are offered as the season begun the last weekend of November.
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Although many of us will have enjoyed May holiday skiing on Cairngorm, how often has it offered any unbroken runs from summit to car park over the years ?
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| Winterhighland wrote: |
| If CairnGorm Mountain is skiing in May it will the 7th consecutive Calendar month in which snowsports are offered as the season begun the last weekend of November. |
I stand corrected, and happily so too - 7 consecutive months AWESOME!
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moffatross, Probably not often, however the fact that it's possible to get skiing in May in Scotland is a big plus. As roga, says - let's try to get some southern newbies up to Ciarngorm for that weekend.
I've started a thread on the groups/solo trips forum as I was unable to do so on the Snow events one.
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You know it makes sense.
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I'm trying to swing a trip up there for easter, will depend on whether I can blag my father-in-laws place at Banchory as I'll have to drag the family up.
It will also depend on knee op, which hopefully will be a small keyhole job that will be sorted out by then.
I haven't skied there for over 15 years, so not expecting it to have changed much.
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In reply to Roga's question I don't know, except that the Carpark Tow and Fiacaill Ridge Poma were operating on May Day 1994 and the Carpark Run was still complete.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Had a good day at Glencoe yesterday. Lower down the snow was getting wet and heavy but the main basin, rannoch glades etc were lovely. In the afternoon I even had a good few runs of Fly Paper which was shut - probably a bit irresponsible of me but the snow was beautiful I couldn't resist.
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Lovely soft spring snow at Cairngorm yesterday in marked contrast to the icy conditions earlier in the week. It was quite windy higher up but as soon as you you were below half-way station the Fiacall ridge gave a huge amount of protection to the lower slopes. A magic day on the mountain.
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Snow must've been melting a lot recently, 'cos I've just enjoyed two awesome high water runs (and there hasn't been enough rain to account for levels) on the Dee and North Esk (kayaking).
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Great day at Glenshee yesterday - lovely snow and not too busy at all for a weekend.
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Amazing pix. It would be hard to imagine all that melting before May day - I'm getting quite excited now.
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Looks like we're coming into a couple of days of rain/heavy thawing but into next week the signs are for yet more northern blocking and cold from the north and east. What an incredible winter.
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| brian wrote: |
| Looks like we're coming into a couple of days of rain/heavy thawing but into next week the signs are for yet more northern blocking and cold from the north and east. What an incredible winter. |
It it going to be interesting to see what remains after this thaw, will the 'ski anywhere' have gone and be back to the traditional runs or not?????
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Bit of a thaw at the moment but it looks as if there may be more cold on the way after this week - it's gotta warm at some point but hopefully we haven't seen the last of the cold and snow just yet
In the meantime was just looking at the following site and was mightily impressed by the quality of the information and the arguments put: www.savetheciste.com
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