Time to start a new thread. Last season had some good skiing, particularly at altitude in the Lake District but also some good, if limited days across the other side of the eden valley up in the NorthPennines.
At Yad Moss Season tickets are now on sale for the coming winter. Price £55 for new adult members and £10 for juniors. Returning adult Season Ticket holders only pay £40.
Day tickets will normally be available on the hill for £20 (£10 for juniors) unless a very busy day is anticipated in which case they may be restricted to online sales the night before.
All the clubs cooperate with each other and in previous years have offered reciprocal discounts on day tickets to season ticket holders. Here are the links:
Let’s hope for snow from the east as well as the west this year.
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Let’s hope for snow from the east as well as the west this year
North and south would be good too - we're not too fussy! Anything will do!
I know what you mean though Peter S
- Yad Moss was particularly memorable when the Beast from the East filled Hen Gill Gully for brilliant skiing back down to the road...
Fingers crossed, we could be on for our first Pennines slide in only two months' time....
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Re. Weardale parking Grizzler (from query in 2019-20 conditions thread): You are correct in that the layby at the gate to the ski hill gets full quickly - maybe 10 cars Puzzled
After that, cars park down the hill - at an angle, facing into the wire fence on the left (ie driving in forwards). Snow can be deep against the fence - hence the need to dig a space. The membership rules stipulate that visitors must park in that way. However, I've still seen chaos and the road blocked with cars trying to turn round, reverse in etc...
On a busy day, cars can end up parked all the way to the bridge/bend at the bottom of the hill - which can be a good ski back down
You're right in that the last thing you want (in either direction) is to meet an oncoming vehicle on the single-track road Shocked Passing places are virtually non-existent apart from farm gates - I've had to reverse uphill for 'miles' before....
If you park at the chain-fitting layby on the road from Daddry Shield, someone will always give you a lift up to the slopes - well at least in non-covid times... Confused
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What a great story. Lots of digging, construction and so many amazing vehicles. They have clearly had a lot of fun over the years, as well as some great skiing. No doubt when they built Those first crude rope tows they couldn’t have imagined where it would lead
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
And if you haven’t seen it before here is the short film ‘Raise’.
The chap sat in the wheelbarrow is The late, great Bernie Warriner BEM.
Breaking news: Snow Forecast Up North for Friday Night, 9th Oct 2020
- 1cm at the top of Yad Moss & Weardale.
- 2cm at the top of Raise.
'Fetch the snow chains Parker!'
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@mountainaddict, Same for Snowdonia
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Right on cue. The second weekend of October is traditionally the first snowfall of the English season
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Right on cue. The second weekend of October is traditionally the first snowfall of the English season
First time I've ever spotted it! When was the earliest ever lift-served Northern England skiing
Peter S
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.
Great question! @mountainaddict,
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
Mrs MA & I have definitely used the lifts at Yad Moss & (now defunct) Harwood in the last week of November....But I'm betting there will have been earlier skiing/boarding than that...most probably on Raise?
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
@mountainaddict, I recall walking on my Birthday which is mid November and people skiing the following weekend.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
@mountainaddict, pretty sure I have skied at Yad Moss towards the end of October a few years back.
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Yes we have run the tow in October. Latest was May but that was before the Poma so would have been the top rope tow prior to 1988, probably 1986.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
October 2020 to May 2020 will do nicely Peter S
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Weardale Ski Club have decided not to allow day passes this season to ensure we can control numbers. This means you will need to be a member to ski. There are still some places available. Reciprocal arrangements with Raise, Yad Moss and Allenheads continue but only on weekdays
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Assuming we stay with more severe restrictions and there isn't much overseas travel it's a sensible decision. Visitor numbers to the wider countryside in the NE / NW suggest being overwhelmed is a very real risk - not looking like there is a low season. There's not really a suck it and see - it just seems to be go straight to really high numbers. Been really surprised at visitor numbers to Teesdale in September - more like high summer.
I'm going for the usual spread of passes this year and hoping I'll be able to get out somewhere between different region and nation restrictions.
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Morning all and thanks for starting this thread @Peter S. The Lake District Ski Club has suspended new memberships in the light of the greater demand we expect to see this season, as @oldagedpredator suggests. We have started a waiting list and may re-open memberships if we're able to cope ok on a sunny Sunday. In the meantime, we hope to be able to offer guest skiing - though, realistically, this is likely to be during the week or when conditions are "challenging..."
In answer to @Mountainaddict's question, I think the earliest we have run the tow on Raise in the last decade was Nov 4 (maybe 2014?) - and we had a couple of days of epic wall-to-wall powder. If I remember correctly, there then followed a two-month hiatus before we got any more. (The local greybeards do be saying Nov dump = season flump... )
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
The Raise
First resort to open this year?
After all it is free
After all it is free
Fingers crossed
Brecon Beacons was skied today, but not a resort
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@russ_e, was up Helvellyn range today, all white stuff gone (bar the low cloud ) so guess that it was a very brief early season!
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Gutted to hear that @Grizzler! I'm still waiting for Mike Pow to post pictures of his Wales adventure.
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Awaiting guidance from Snowsports England about whether we can ski, just in case we get enough snow this month. The new lockdown guidance says "you can and should still travel to... spend time or exercise outdoors. This should be done locally wherever possible, but you can travel to do so if necessary".
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.
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
Yes "we can confirm that the new restrictions mean that snowsport activity in England is not permitted for the duration of the national lockdown." although you should still be able to go for a self isolated tour on the basis that
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"you can and should still travel to... spend time or exercise outdoors. This should be done locally wherever possible, but you can travel to do so if necessary"
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
The tows went up at Allenheads this week. They were due to go up this Sunday but as I understand it a small but elite guerilla task force got the job done earlier this week ahead of lockdown. Much praise to Mike Horrocks and the other volunteers for their hard work.
Orders for a good week-long freeze followed by two days heavy snow on the 1st and 2nd of next month have been submitted to the local council.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
@Hotdogger, it's NCC! You expect them to have the road cleared as well???!!!
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Haha! True true. Wouldn't be the first time I've driven over to find myself basically driving through a single lane tunnel hoping to God nobody comes the other way!
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Orders for a good week-long freeze followed by two days heavy snow on the 1st and 2nd of next month have been submitted
...Only to find it comes to pass but the lockdown is extended further.... Any turns we get this season - absolutely anywhere, in any conditions - will be a bonus....
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
2 meters plus forecast for Yad Moss over the weekend!
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
If the Snowdome can open then I'm sure Yad Moss can
I'm hoping for some snow on the local hills (Peaks)
After all it is free
After all it is free
Yes Snowsports England have confirmed that outdoor snow sports facilities can open subject to setting out their Covid procedures.
Watching the weather forecast for the weekend ......will it...won’t it
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Peter S wrote:
And if you haven’t seen it before here is the short film ‘Raise’.
The chap sat in the wheelbarrow is The late, great Bernie Warriner BEM.
As an alternative, if unable to get on any bashes, I am thinking of asking to Borrow a winter equipped camper Van.
Thought about Scotland, but logostics and fuel costs make it difficult. Plus possible lockdowns en route.
Northern England a possibility, conditions and covid allowing, where would be the best place to go where I could park, hopefully near a pub, and conceivably, walk to the snow?
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) so guess that it was a very brief early season!
Any turns we get this season - absolutely anywhere, in any conditions - will be a bonus.... 
