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Anyone heading for a slide in Scotland this weekend? where and when? It's looking too good to pass up I think. The question is where to go .. Cairngorm or Glencoe or Nevis?
Does anyone know if you can buy lift tickets in advance ... as in before you get up to the ski centre?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Latest FAX charts show strong northerly winds for Sat & Sun, so wrap up warm. 
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Yeah, thats what I've heard too - should bring even more snow with it.
So .... no-one else is going, fantastic, I get the place to myself then!
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Adam Holt, check the other thread in this forum and there's one in On The Piste as well. Looks like there'll be at least three of you. 
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brian
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been nore snow in the east at cairngorm, the west doesnt seem to have caught the snow as much as cairngorm got.
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although the whole of Nevis Range is open and the back corries, all of Glencoe is also open....so they cant have do too bad
The management of the ski centres must be breathing one hugh sigh of relief...lets hope it last out this time!
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tomski01, looks like it: Monday
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brian
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tomski01, yes, yes, yes and yes !!
That's a fair strength of wind, but not excessive. Glenshee does particulary well out of Easterlies, see 2001
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| skanky, sorry im not an expert, does that mean cold weather coming in from NE, and is that a front coming from that direction too (do fronts normally come in from that direction?!)....does that mean cold and snow??!! snowHead snowHead snowHead |
Yes, yes and troughs (no they don't)....if the chart's right, yes.
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| Hope its not too windy mind so all the snow just gets blown away! any chance of snow in Yorkshire Dales u think?! |
Windy, yes, about 25mph (gusting higher)?
Could easily get some snow in the Dales - the higher and more north east you go, the more likely....at least for the weekend and Monday. That's if that chart comes off of course, it's still five days out which is the very limit of accurate forecasting.
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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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brian, i went skiing in 2001 at Glenshee...marvellous, the Glas Maol buit was open, one of the best ski days ever!!! i wrote my little story about it the other day (camped in car park) in one of these threads somewhere!
im excited now, im camping in aviemore on that weekend in march...but i know which resort ill be going too if the conditions are good, even if others are closer
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that said, a day sometime next week wouldnt go amiss if all you guys predictions are right!!
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You know it makes sense.
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tomski01, you may want to revise that camping idea. Unless you're an experienced winter camper of course.
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brian
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tomski01, 2001 was the best cover I've ever seen at Glenshee and I've been going there since 1982. You could ski straight off at right angles anywhere along the ridge from Glas Maol to meet the black run underneath. Normally that's a mass of boulder sized scree !
That season was a slow starter in January as well but turned into a classic. Fingers and everything else crossed.
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skanky, i am (years of being a poor student with a craving to get into them hilld in the winter). Plus i have a bloody good 4 season tent that requires use, and there are about 15 of us going-just seemed easier to camp with a group that size (the cheap bunkhouses are booked years in advance!!)
Plus, you cant beat the feeling of camping in the ski centre car park, waking up to a tent covered in snow and being the first people on the hill cos the snowploughs have only just got to the place by the time you are kitted up and ready to go
camping in cold and snow is ok (its actually quite cosy and warm once you have bedded down), camping in the rain during a wet april is no fun at all!! Having the car nearby is always a godsend.
brian, that Red Glas Maol run is wicked!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| tomski01 wrote: |
skanky, i am (years of being a poor student with a craving to get into them hilld in the winter). Plus i have a bloody good 4 season tent that requires use, and there are about 15 of us going-just seemed easier to camp with a group that size (the cheap bunkhouses are booked years in advance!!)
Plus, you cant beat the feeling of camping in the ski centre car park, waking up to a tent covered in snow and being the first people on the hill cos the snowploughs have only just got to the place by the time you are kitted up and ready to go
camping in cold and snow is ok (its actually quite cosy and warm once you have bedded down), camping in the rain during a wet april is no fun at all!! Having the car nearby is always a godsend.
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I think I can agree with you there. Just thought it fair to warn you - it's looking cold and windy. There may be a bit of rain at first though.
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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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Folks
Some cracking pics of good conditions at Cairngorm, Glenshee and, in particular, GlenCoe. Fully snow cover at Glencoe. It looks splendid.
www.winterhighland.com See if you can find the pic of a helicopter and skiers at Glencoe......
The forums are also worth perusing before committing to a trip, Will fill you in on the minutae of what is going on in the resorts that day
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'd be heading for Nevis. West stands a better chance of clearer weather and less wind. Plus they should have the back coire going by then. Sensational skiing.
