Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Nice
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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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Very nice.
My memories of skiing in Scotland are not quite so universally blue sky-ed
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Great photos. Not been to Scotland since I was a kid - makes me want to go for sure!!!
Kersh
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Don't, you're making me homesick.
So many awesome days at Nevis and the Coe.
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stevomcd, from your location it looks like you've got a tolerable substitute
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Aye, but you can still have rose-tinted specs about being the only person riding the back coires at Nevis because the chair's not running.
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2nd photo is great.
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stevomcd, true.
Where exactly are you living? Are you at Ste Foy all year?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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snowball, I live in Sainte Foy all year round. This is me: www.whiteroomchalet.com !
I've actually just bought my own place just down the valley a bit, but will be a while before we're able to move in (mega-renovation project being all we could afford).
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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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Oh yes, I seriously considered that last season for my group of 6. Went to another Scot at The Auberge sur the Montagne instead.
Do you know Chris Harrop who we ski with?
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You know it makes sense.
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snowball, no, doesn't ring a bell.
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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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Ha ha shoogly, I remember that boulder field trek very well, pishing myself laughing, sweating like a porker, juggling naughty skis and having one leg or the other plunging into a hidden abyss every other step. Hope we can do it again with snow cover all the way out next time.
snowball, the area looking down to the right of that photo (other side of ridge) is the summit gully proper, and in reality, the snow immediately in front is Spikes which has a marginally steeper entrance but a wider, whoopier, big smiles bowl. That whole corrie area under the summit cairn is best seen in 7'th photo 'going back for more' with summit left of ridge which divides photo in 1/2, and spikes right. Easy gully pix were taken on 28th April this year.
And steveomcd is right about the best days in the back being those when the Braveheart isn't running but as it goes, that's pretty much all of them.
Thanks for the nice comments folks and yep, the chances of perfect blue sky days versus a mix of white, grey and clag isn't worth a bet but Scotland wouldn't be Scotland without a good mix of both and fine weather photos are so much nicer. And if they make some people homesick and others want to try Scotland for 1st time / come back and do it all over again, well so much the better
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Poster: A snowHead
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My one pic from my one trip up to Cairngorm this year, I think it was late March or April.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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stevomcd wrote: |
snowball, no, doesn't ring a bell. |
He's English but has lived there for many years. He lives above the old Ste Foy village. He is a qualified ski guide but now makes much more money building and renovating chalets (and running a few). Really fun to ski with - he skis hard.
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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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My one pic from my one trip up to Cairngorm this year, I think it was late March or April.
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Well it wasn't March, we can be sure of that!!
Prob last weekend of April 28th/29th, but could be 12/13th May from a quick flick through my pics.
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