 Poster: A snowHead
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The Braveheart Chair in Coire Dubh at Nevis Range is scheduled to run this weekend providing weather and snow conditions remain favourable. There's been fantastic spring snow in the Back Corries the past few days, but there is no easy way out to the front of the mountain. So the Braveheart Chair will make it well worth dropping in and lapping the chair for a while. Please beaware though that exiting Coire Dubh requires walking and the Back Corries will remain off-piste and unpatrolled, officially at Status "Not Patrolled - At Own Risk". 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ohh, my favourite scottish lift 
do they really keep it unpatrolled when Braveheart is spinning???
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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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Yeeeehaaaaaah!
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Good news, however ....
1. will they actualy run it, there's been a bit of a track record recently of the lift being scheduled to open but not opening when the day comes.
2. how can they run the lift but post the area as "Not Patrolled - At Own Risk"? Surely opening the chair is encouraging more people to drop in and they therefore have some respnsibility for their safety?
Apart from that though good news and if it does open have fun! 
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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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shoogly, that'll be a decision about where to head 2moro made I guess 
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Nice.
Perhaps the "off-piste is more because there is no full ski-out? I can't imagine they would open unless they felt the back bowl was safe.
(For those who don't know the place - Braveheart doesn't go back to the top of the ridge. You have to do a long traverse-out to get back to the bottom of the other lifts - on the front face of the ridge - and thence access back to the top.)
Please do some snow dances for us for a dump on the 24th/25th. And sun after that.
Last edited by You'll need to Register first of course. on Fri 4-03-11 17:44; edited 3 times in total
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roga, only if my better half agrees. she's early intermediate standard so i'll need to go where there's skiing for her.
I'll do my best to convince her that she'll be find cornice bashing to find a way into the back of Nevis*
*for any worried do-gooders [joke]
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not patrolled in this case is likely a bit of a misnomer, with the hope of perhaps limiting the numbers in there as folk who they might likely need to go in after might not go in in the first place if they view these warnings. They will have assessed it as safe to open, and if something happens, they'll go in, for sure, but they might not come in after you if you just bumslide down the entry and just dont dont fancy it once you're in there or the long slog out  . With the crowds expected elsewhere for the comps and races, might be a good plan though despite the walk out
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Fingers corres they continue to run it over the next couple of weeks, won't make it this weekend but next weekend is a possibility...
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Freeeeeedommm!!!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Braveheart is open.
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