 brian
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Well, better late than never, March has seen the Scottish centres all get their fair share of the white stuff. I headed up to the Lecht on Saturday with #1 son. All the runs were complete and fully covered. A rock solid base, mostly covered in nice fresh soft stuff. Unpisted drifts were feet deep in places and windblown to a solidity that made them ripe for face planting. Saw several fine examples 
It was Baltic freezing, car said -3 at the car park with a strong wind making it bitter. It brightened up a bit as the day went on. A good day, if somewhat bracing !
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New day lodge with Buzzard tow behind.
Nursery slopes and Grouse tow.
Snowy Owl chair.
Looking towards Falcon and Harrier.
A satisfied Scottish skier at the end of the day 
It was busy but with everything running, queues were virtually non-existent. The new day lodge is really nice, ski hire is well organised. Take a ticket and go for a coffee, watch board in café to see when it's your turn. Restaraunt and bar with nice views.
The journey back down on Sunday was an adventure, one lane of the M90 ploughed, the other up to a foot deep in places with huge drifts. There should be an epic base when they get the roads back open. It looks hopeful for this season to now last right through until the end of april. Hurrah 
Last edited by brian on Tue 30-01-07 14:49; edited 2 times in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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excellent, glad to hear it! Hope to get some turns in Scotland this year, do you know if the back corries and Braveheart can/will open?
regards,
Greg
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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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brian
brian
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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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Going up to cairngorm on wednesday or thursday. I am not a big fan of glenshee, its lift system is pretty prehistoric. cairngorm has a mini terrain park too.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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However, further East, Cairngorm are reporting that the Cas gunbarrel is flat It's been a Southerly wind which is perfect for drifting snow into the Cairngorm ski area.
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Pretty impressive considering that on Saturday when I was up the burn was showing from just above the cross over to the M1 poma down. Should also mean that the Ciste gulley will have filled - hope avalanche risk won't prevent it opening. Hopefully the new snow will have covered all the ice that was around on Saturday. With the bullet proof base from the end of last week, combined with the snow over the weekend and the forecst further showers for the rest of the week, should be a good season end, with the possibility of high level touring on the plateau well beyond easter 
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