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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?
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great photos, what camera you using?
How do you set it up for the last image?
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Thanks both. milnerhome, I'm using a Panasonic Lumix TZ8. My mate descended first, then set up the tripod and simply kept his finger on the button. Put the images together in Photoshop.
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Wow what season and firstracks those pics an the blog are awesome - inspiring stuff, thanks for posting.
Here's to more seasons like this one! 
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Cheers roga. Are you going to be up teaching again next winter?
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| firstracks wrote: |
| Cheers roga. Are you going to be up teaching again next winter? |
That's the plan yes, I'll hopefully manage to get more 'proper' skiing and training in than this season though - I need to push the envelope right out! 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Stunning photographs, i had to keep pinching myself and saying "its june not february"Amazing.
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firstracks, wow what a great weekend you guys have had, also love the photoshop pic, shows how narrow the jacobs ladder route is! Lot's of respect I've looked down those couloirs in the summer and they're steep 
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You know it makes sense.
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firstracks, Fabulous photos - thanks. 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Thanks all! - appreciate the replies
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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proper job
was that a proper nae-tent bivvy too?? how was that??  (you guys have faith!!)
what was ye're route back up? up the lines themselves or scramble up the flank of the fiacaill
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Cheers Barry. Aye, bivvy done minus tent. A bit chilly overnight with the clear skies, but thankfully the beer jacket was on by then so no problem! Route back up each time was a scramble/bootpack to Windy Col (flank of the fiacaill).
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Saturday was faboulous. Superb atmosphere on the mountain, great fun and the snow wasn't bad to ski on at all...
The run down the Coire na Ciste impressed me. Much wider then I expected from the photos... and I managed to do Teleturns (4th day on Tele) almost all the way down to the boardwalk. It was still complete and skiable, barring a few collapsed snowbridges which you could ski past, to within 20 meters of the boardwalk.
Will absolutely return to Scotland for sliding...
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| Ronald wrote: |
Coire na Ciste
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a few collapsed snowbridges |
While I'm all for some creative writing with regards to Scottish conditions I'm not sure 'complete' and 'collapsed snowbridges' should ever be used in the same sentence
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andytb, Maybe you should make an attempt not to chase people off with futilities like that ? For all my rather limited knowledge of the English language my description IS a correct and accurate representation of the truth. The whole sentence taken into account it means its not complete, yet skiable by someone who is not exactly well balanced on Telemark gear.
I skied around wider holes in slopes that were actually open and liftserved higher up and earlier in the season.. lets name it Grindelwald in March so its impressive we could make it this far down in JUNE, no less then full 3 months later.
You post adds exactly nothing at all but bait for an argument.
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Is the fat lady likely to be singing or skiing this weekend at the 'Gorm????
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kitenski, when we got up the lady announcing on the train already mentioned it could be the last day. They made it to sunday by the skin of the teeth (uptrack, queue area were already dodgy on saturday... sunday they only got down the right side through the park as the left side was going fast)
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Ronald, it was scenes such as this that came to mind immediately so forgive my abrupt nature. That afternoon opened my eyes to skiable terrain that I wouldn't have considered before. It was entirely possible for us to ski round, for example, this collapsed snow bridge.. over heather 
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Looks fine to me
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You know it makes sense.
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andytb, Nowhere near as bad.
Check pics at H11lly's report on Winterhighland:
Pics don't seem to want to hotlink so click 
I think your links are further down along the Ciste chair? -- we could only get near the boardwalk to WWC, was absolutely nothing below.
I think i can spot the boardwalk.. if i'm right its quite amazing how little of the Ciste was lost to thaw really over the last 2 weeks...
Very little lost in terms of skiable in fact...
We got about as far as the person in black, left of the middle, maybe a bit more even.
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Ronald, That's Andytb himself.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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has s nowsports finished now at cairngorn or they still open at weekends? I know the other scottish resorts closed a while back ut what are the conditions like at the top of Glencoe and Nevis???
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Good conditions in Tower Gully on the Ben yesterday - still a long descent to be had with 10 yards walking to link 2 sections. Good corn snow all the way, small cornice, blue skies... perfect!
A couple of cracks & some bridges low down that may not last too long if it stays warm.
Pics & vid to follow...
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And in reply to the OP...
| arv wrote: |
Wonder if we can keep a Scotland thread alive this year?!
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I think the answer is probably YES!!
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| offpisteskiing wrote: |
And in reply to the OP...
| arv wrote: |
Wonder if we can keep a Scotland thread alive this year?!
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I think the answer is probably YES!! |
Yep, just limp it along a bit further to mid-summers day with discussion of what's left, then after mid-summer we can start speculation of when it will all start to fall again (Although interestingly the tickets they were giving out on the 5th June already said 2010/11 season on them. Maybe it changed with the tax year?)
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Well thats good news... Means our NEXT season already started
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but what a great day yesterday (Sat 5th June).
