 Poster: A snowHead
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Met Office Mountain Forecast for the East Highlands:
Sunday, 28 August 2011
Cloudy and wet for many with gale to storm force winds, drier in the south.
Hazards Risk Explanation
Blizzards Medium Over highest summits
Heavy snow Low Over highest summits
Storm force winds High mean speeds around 75 mph and gust 100 mph
At 2pm +0.5c at the Summit of CairnGorm, dropped .3c at the mid-station since 2pm! Precipitation pushing in more to the Northern Cairngorms now, freezing level likely to be below the top of the higher Ben Macdui already judging by lapse rate on CairnGorm.
Any snow falling and lying is sadly 5 days to early for a September slide, to tick off month 23 in a row of having managed to ski somewhere on CairnGorm Mountain!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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WOW!!! Cant wait to get up there this season wioth my brothers place in Perth being free for my use every single weekend!!! Bring onb the Winter, or maybe even Autumn!
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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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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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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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You'll need to Register first of course.
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Winterhighland,
ski/board on that HOW 
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Unfortunately the photo happened after it had been thawing, still hasn't been clear to the tops on the webcams since. There is still snow on the plateau in Garbh Uisage Beag from last winter, but unfortunately it's on the Macdui side of the the Feith Buidhe watershed rather than the CairnGorm side. So far the 22 months sliding have been done entirely on CairnGorm Mountain. There is probably still snow from last winter in the Ciste Mhearaidh, but it's unlikely to be enough to permit 'linked' turns.
The clag hasn't really lifted so a planned sortie to suss out the potential for 1st September didn't go ahead. Possibly going to head up on the 1st with skis and if there is snow at the Ciste Mhearaidh, then result. If not some pre-season exercise and then it's back to sit and wait to see if we get a September snow fall. A hard frost and dusting would be enough to ski in the Marquis Wells and/or Ptarmigan Bowl area! 
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Kudos
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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A clear day on the Plateau on Thursday 1st September allowed CML to take this photo of Ben Macdui, showing the remaining drifts from the August blizzard on the high tops on Sunday 28th August. Reports of depths >50cm of fresh snow remaining in some of the drifts on Ben Macdui.
http://p.twimg.com/AYQgvqsCMAAT99-.jpg:large
Meanwhile the old snow from winter 2010/11 just managed to survive into September in the Ciste Mhearaidh on CairnGorm Mountain, allowing the 23rd consecutive month of linked turns on the 'Gorm to be achieved withing a nail biting wait for September freshies!
More pix: http://www.winterhighland.info/pix/pixalbum.php?pix_id=732
Also some more from H11lly in the Public Reports.
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Well played
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