Poster: A snowHead
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Crikey O'Riley......I was browsing the net this morning and thought I wonder if there is any snow left up in Glenshee so I clicked on the website and my lord, I thought there might have been a light dusting but they have had LOADS.....http://www.ski-glenshee.co.uk/Webcam
I thought I had put my stuff away for the season but I am now REALLY annoying my wife by waxing my skis in the kitchen (on an old sheet so what's the problem dear?) and I am going up tomorrow, on my own, which is bliss!
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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 a month ago we were being told that Cairngorm had 20ft of snow in places, so it isn't all going to vanish for at least a month yet (could be 2 months if it is like last year ... or better).
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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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Fingers crossed it lasts a bit longer off to Aveimore with the kids in 3 weeks time.
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Cairngorm was reporting 9m at top, 5m mid and 1m low a few weeks ago when we were there. Now reporting 2m at top
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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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Yep think there is something odd in their figures as it went from 7m top, 7m mid a few days ago to 2m top 2m mid the following morning.
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Mayrhofen only has 30 cms at the top!!! WTFIGO?
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i saw a photo on FB from a mate that was at the Cairngorms today. Looked somewhat bare in the lower 2/3rds.
Aiming to get out somwhere in scotland on Friday..........Been told the nevis range is looking good, with great stuff happening in the back corries. Been told that many times before though, only to be disappointed. Think they have been opening all main lifts.....
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Still two stories deep in North Iceland and snowing.
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1.8 miles deep in the Ellsworth Trough, Antarctica.
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I was at Glenshee on Saturday. Basically it was a fresh dusting on sheet ice. The heavy rain of the previous week had soaked the snowpack and that had then frozen hard. Sunnyside was very thin and narrow in places and the same can be said of the bits of the Cairnwell side. Meal Odhar and Coire Fionn were better but again there was a lot of sheet ice particularly on the traverse across from the top of Caenlochan Poma. Some runs were narrow with one side being deepish powder and the other a thin dusting with heather (and rocks) popping through. Glas Maol was shut so can't comment but the photos on their FB page made it look good yesterday. There is a comment on their Facebook page yesterday that said there was a sign at the bottom saying "Snow is not as good as it looks". That was certainly true on Saturday.
They were having intermittent issues with uplift on Saturday with tow-wires jumping off the pulleys. I was going up Coire Fionn and the next thing I knew I was on my back in a hole! I could see the wire had jumped off the pulley and it had caused the tow to stop. I had slip backwards and in to a large hole beside the tower. I skied back down and told the liftie and he radioed for the Piste Basher to come and fill the hole.
The snow conditions were very strange and I fell more in one day than I did in a week in Espace Killy!
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