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Have a look at this !!
http://www.winterhighland.info/forum/read.php?2,58057,page=5
Typical. Just as I'm off the Switzerland it drops enormous amounts of snow on the Cairngorms.
With good skiing also currently in the Pennines and Lake District, I'm going to be spending my week counting the days before I can get home and do some proper runs 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Peter S, 
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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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Wow! Almost looks like Whistler! I miss the Elephant Fence!
Last time I skied Cairgorm was with Charlotte Swift on a basi course way, way back. At least she didn't loose her Mustang on that particular trip.
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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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aye, but watch the crowds at cairngorm....... ticket sales suspended by lunchtime........
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Peter S, Which town in Scotland would you be describing as a dump? 
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SMALLZOOKEEPER,
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Which town in Scotland would you be describing as a dump?
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Start in Ardrossan and work your way East 
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or Berwick and work your way north
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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colinmcc, hate to disabuse you Colin, but it was a Camaro - Mustangs are just tooooo common!!!
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easiski,
Now if it had been a Beetle it would have floated... 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Is the back bowl open at Nevis range? ie can you ski out (I notice the lifts haven't been open this season)?
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Visited the 5 Scottish ski resorts this weekend but only skied at Glenshee. Poor vis on the whole and a wee bit windy; not as many people as last weekend - well, not as far as I could see, anyway . Lots of side scour on the mountains, so pistes were a bit icy; big drifts by the snow fences - lots of head plants as you couldn't see them! Concrete on the Carn Aosda; best snow was on the Thunderbowl from the top of the Tiger - a bit of a climb from Butcharts as the Tiger itself was closed - some nice lines if you pick your way through the heather, which also gives a bit of definition to the slope - v important in white-out conditions!
Nothing open today so we tried a little tour up Beinn Dubhcraig - nice snow and conditions didn't feel as windy as yesterday - certainly didn't get the feeling that the skins were going to slap me in the face in the wind when putting them on..... or the prospect of unsticking them from my face. Pics to follow.
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You know it makes sense.
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Had a quick look on the Glenshee website this morning,
"RUNS All runs are complete with full cover of fresh powder snow.
The groomers are working to open up the further out lifts some of which are buried.
We hope to open up most of the ski area today depending on the weather."
I can't remember the last time they had to dig the lifts out, just a pity I can't get up there just now.
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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Don't talk or sing about it. Go now as the snow could disappear before the weekend arrives!
Just back fro Gramisch Partenkirchen/St Anton/Sellaronda. May have to work on the wife to go up North for a bit of snow. We did the White Ring twice in St Anton (separate days) and went round the 40km Sellaronda circuit in both clockwise and anticlockwise directions. Just not the same skiing after coming back from Alpe Di Siusi where the runs there were smooth and wide as a football pitch! Everyday sun shining, very few drag lifts in sight and the Seceda top to Ortisei run alone is uninterrupted 10.5km long.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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was at the shee yesterday.....
fantastic.
sprained my thumb though quite badly....
so having the day off today, back tomorrow , and probably monday too.
I love Glenshee! 
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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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Was at Cairngorm Friday and Saturday. Ciste gulley was open with some nice powdery snow on it. Also managed Gulley 1 which was realy good with winddrifted powder until it was skiied out. Most of the other runs were hard packed until they softened in the afternoon and some icy areas appeared where runs became scraped. Aonach bowl was good with pockets of winddrifted powder - though getting into the bowl was 'interesting' - entry of the M2 was unpisted and consisted of narrow strips of large drifts along the fences. I had two days of good skiing. Friday I telemarked my quads into submission with not a single queue all day. Saturday the state of my quads meant a change to alpine kit, but still hardly a queue. The WWP had a short queue in the early afternoon when they ran a piste machine down it, but that disappeared as soon as they reopened it and the FRP had a short queue first thing in the morning, but thatwas it all day. Where was everyone?
Sunday I destroyed the rest of my body by racing in the club championships at the Clash - 59minutes for the ~8.5km course and I wasn't last and only 20 odd minutes behind the winning junior!
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Massive Dump in Scotland
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Sewerage system under severe strain
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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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So if you have to eat Sammon, stay away from the Scottish variety for a while
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