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Exceptional weather and snow cover today in the Northern Cairngorms, Glen Feshie hills today.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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What a Sight! Thanks for the picture. 
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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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Sigh 
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Thanks to@charlie.wilkinson, for another fab picture. It strikes me the informed highland skiers chose Glen Feshie instead of the trade route up to Cairngorm.
There are additional pictures on British back country showing untracked mountain sides (above Glen Feshie)
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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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@Rogerdodger, thanks! This photo is actually taken from Sgoran Dubh Mor looking towards Braeriach after climbing up from Glen Feshie.
Glen Feshie certainly seemed popular with locals yesterday and was well rewarded. Cairngorm is less appealing at the moment with the snow gates closed at Glenmore.
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I drove a couple of miles across southern Edinburgh this morning and saw multiple skiers walking up the pavements towards the Pentlands with skis strapped to their backs - around Dreghorn and also at Colinton. Wowsers, not often you see that in the capital!
Bitterly cold last night - Edinburgh got to -9C and parts of the southern uplands -18C...
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@interpaul, lovely pics. We made it up today - south face of west kip was fab!
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@Inboard, You can see the south face of West Kip in my first pic, it was well skied so we went elsewhere. It does look a good descent though 
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I was up touring for sunrise this AM in the Pentlands. Some nice short gully runs of pow pow - genuinely good snow ! Made sunrise on Capelaw and took coffee on Black Hill which had waist deep sections. Quite funny walking back down at 10 to home (Colinton)
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Feel very jealous.
While I am about 15 mins drive from hitting the pentlands, I shouldnt really do touring / off piste due to my metal hip (and now isnt the time to place more pressure on hospitals with a self induced dislocation).
Fantastic pictures / stories though, keep them coming so I can live vicariously through them !!
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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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@GreenDay, interesting, whilst I’m not in the market for touring at the moment, there not being any easily accessible hill from home (and all the local snow has melted this morning). Having had a shattered femur repaired and full hip replacement in autumn 2019, my surgeon told me in October that there was no reason I should not resume off piste skiing and touring. Having said that I think I bound to be more nervous when it actually comes to it.
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| Ski lots wrote: |
| @GreenDay, interesting, whilst I’m not in the market for touring at the moment, there not being any easily accessible hill from home (and all the local snow has melted this morning). Having had a shattered femur repaired and full hip replacement in autumn 2019, my surgeon told me in October that there was no reason I should not resume off piste skiing and touring. Having said that I think I bound to be more nervous when it actually comes to it. |
Hope the rehab is going ok.
To clarify, mine told me that I could do exactly what I wanted, but that if I resumed high impact activities (I ran and played squash as well as cycling, skiing etc) then the likelihood of an early revision increased. I canned the squash and running for that reason.
He was a skiier so answered my next question before I got to it - he said that if it was him, he would avoid moguls and off piste because if you hit a rock, a dislocation in an implanted hip was bad news. I got mine done in 2011 at the age of 43, so I had many (hopefully !) years of physical activity ahead so much of what I do is - to an extent - self policing.
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You know it makes sense.
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@GreenDay, interesting indeed. My was done at 60, I had already had a resurfacing 4 years earlier, but had a largely unrelated accident. Interestingly I returned to skiing (including off-piste and eventually touring after the resurfacing, with no ill effect, although the first fall was a moment of truth). I have sold my motorbike on the basis that the benefits did not outweigh the risks, but I do not feel the same about skiing.
I’ve always been struck about the different medical opinions, but after all both the medics and the patients are all different.
Good luck.
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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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Wow! Great pics interpaul - looks fantastic.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| interpaul wrote: |
| @Inboard, You can see the south face of West Kip in my first pic, it was well skied so we went elsewhere. |
Choosing another hill in the Pentlands because your first choice is tracked out... we live in strange times! 
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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?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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This is just Hell - so I feel like that's me done. No wonder people are suffering mental health issues... 
Dummy well and truly spat out and all toys chucked out of the pram....Planning on checking no more cams, or snow reports (home or abroad) until we can actually move the car off the drive and go somewhere.
Now thinking the ski come back could be autumn glacier skiing at best...
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| mountainaddict wrote: |
This is just Hell - so I feel like that's me done. No wonder people are suffering mental health issues...
Dummy well and truly spat out and all toys chucked out of the pram....Planning on checking no more cams, or snow reports (home or abroad) until we can actually move the car off the drive and go somewhere.
Now thinking the ski come back could be autumn glacier skiing at best... |
I'd avoid Facebook today then, especially the St Anton groups.
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| I'd avoid Facebook today then, especially the St Anton groups |
Easy peasy - I'm not on it 
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GFS ensemble mean persistently below average and we look to be moving into a cool/cold unsettled pattern with a polar trough digging down across or near the British Isles. Detail will chop and change, but there is certainly the potential for some places to get a pasting over the coming week to 10 days, some of the operational runs of various models are posting snow totals in the 1-2m range, some are showing the West getting the most others the NE Cairngorms depending on where has the onshore wind.
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So feel for the Scottish ski industry - particularly after the awful 2019 season
Let's just hope for some vaccines and a good late season
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Heavy snow today at Glencoe which carnt be far off full condition ? And more snow later this week possible at Glenshee. Potentially very cold by the end of the week.
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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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Looks like Glenshee got snowbombed last night, fences are almost topped out ! Loads of wet snow in Pentlands. A solid foot where i was this AM, still snowing now and forecast to snow later as well.
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You know it makes sense.
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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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@Peter S, seen a few wet slabs near my parents in the hills of the Tweed Valley over the years.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Gilberts Fridge wrote: |
| @Peter S, seen a few wet slabs ...in....my....Tweeds.......over the years. |
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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?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Mosha Marc, couldn't possibly comment.
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@Alastair Pink, I've seen the photo's. Very dapper.
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took this today. View of Angus Hills. Behind them lies Glenshee but this is as close as I can get to them, tragic.
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Snow even lying at Oban this morning, just above sea level. Not common.
Must be nice on the hill? 
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Looking good! Have never skied in Scotland before- living in the south of England have always travelled to Alps or Pyrenees but with a week off in end Feb and early April there may be a window if the borders open by then....If not, think of this as testing the waters for 2022!
As a proficient skier up to Alpine black runs and easy-moderate off piste resident in the south west of the UK where would you guys recommend as a 'starter' if there was a possibility? Assuming flights are almost of of the question would it be a long drive up the west coast to Glencoe/Nevis Range? Or heading more easterly to Glenshee? Which areas have the better range of accommodation nearby and are snow chains commonly required to access these resorts?
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