 Poster: A snowHead
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First day of the season has happened so time for the new season thread. I'm mostly in Scotland this year so someone else is going the to take on the mantle of photographer of all things Pennine.
Poor skiing was apparently had at Weardale on Monday December 3rd 2012 - acording to the Facebook group.
Think Yad membership is full, Weardale is close to or may now be, Harwood still has places - for those of you who want the old school pennine experience. Everybody should atleast once. Not sure about Allenheads. Council spending cuts mean road clearance has been cut back - if we do get a good dump stick to the valley roads and no you can't get to Weardale from the Teesdale side.
Seems the usual round of maintenance has been on the go. PeterS - what news from Yad?
Weather forecasts look promising for the weekend - time for the snow dances.
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Sun 7-04-13 23:07; edited 1 time in total
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Forgot the websites bit:
Allenheads http://www.ski-allenheads.co.uk/
Harwood http://harwoodski.webs.com/
Weardale http://www.skiweardale.com/
Yad Moss http://www.yadmoss.co.uk/
Most of the clubs now have Facebook / Twitter although the websites and answer phones are the sources of official club info. Worth checking out before traveling as Pennine skiing has become so popular the bigger clubs may be or are members / season ticket only at the weekends. Check the membership pages for each club.
For now the only other thing to say is - thanks to the small and very hard working teams of volunteers who put in hundreds of hours throughout the year to keep the sites running and ready for the return of snow.
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Both Harwood (about 2miles along the B6277) from Yad Moss and Weardale ran on the 8th, lifted from the club Websites:
Harwood:
Saturday December 8th: Apologies for the e-mail this morning but didn't expect to be running today, the forecast was a few hours late. We have been open today, conditions till lunchtime were good, then the snow softened as the temperature rose. We closed at 2.00 pm as conditions were worsening, snow very soft, poor visibility and starting to rain. The forecast for tomorrow is remaining warm so the slope will be closed. It is going to turn colder next week so watch for an update next Friday. Photos from today added to gallery.
The Club's photos on the Harwood Website:
http://harwoodski.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=14279971
Weardale:
Great days skiing today with 30+ members there. F1 was very good and F2 skiable with caution but the M1 was pretty good. Sadly forecast for thaw overnight so unlikely skiing for Sunday unless the weathermen are wrong.
Allenheads:
Website reported skiing on Friday 7th and planning on Saturday depending on the weather.
Weardale and Yad Moss webcams both show cover taking a kicking this morning, looks like yesterday was an unexpected bonus day.
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All the club webcams can be a bit hit and miss in terms of service but they are up on the side of a hill running off their own little generators. The clubs are usually good at repairing them once they go down but sometimes this can take time. It is though rather anoyning but it's not a quirk of Pennine Skiing, all the Scotish areas have the same with cams not being updated or on line. Although this doesn't mean I'm not going to make grumpy comments about cams in the future!
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Cheers!
Yadmoss Bowlcam is currently showing a fair covering - so (after writing off a Scotland trip due to the 100mph winds that are forecast) all may not yet be lost for a weekend slide  .
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It's a bit frustrating with the winds, tomorrow is looking OK for west of Scotland but visibility might be ish. Yad is looking good (on the summit cam), weather radar has had the Pennines under could be rain could be snow all day. Looks like this time it was snow. If Yad has it Harwood should as well, F1 one on Weardale might be that bit too low and I cant think of a time when F2 was run without F1. So it'll be wait and see on that one.
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mountainaddict, someone asked on Facebook if top webcam was correct for Yad Moss and the reply was "Yes. wet snow at the bottom. Blizzzard at the top. If only it was .5C cooler !"
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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Oh to get the vegetation that short on the Carpark Run on CairnGorm! 
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You know it makes sense.
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mountainaddict, good effort making up there, hopefully more snow on the way from Friday!! How did it ski, did the grass slow you down compared to the snow or was it all frozen solid and find to slide on???
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Poster: A snowHead
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kitenski: By early afternoon, most of the snow had been skied off and we were skiing a dusting of snow on grass (!!). However, it skied surprisingly well without a noticeable decrease in speed. As you suspected, much of the ground was pretty well frozen - to the extent that protruding soily bits sounded like clattering over rocks, although our skis came out remarkably intact!
Fingers crossed for some snow by the weekend.
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Snow-forecast.com now saying no significant snow until next week.... 
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Peter S, It's always hard to predict how far snow reaches when a front from the west tries to push into the cold from the East isn't it Peter? I seem to remember Dec 2010 had a similar setup and that eventually delivered lots of snow, fingers crossed the forecasters are wrong!!
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A wee film from sky at Weardale earlier this week:
http://tyneandwear.sky.com/news/article/53076
The advantage of all the ski areas being on peat bogs is the lack of stones. Still cant decide if piste bashers or tow along mowers have been the best thing to happen to Pennine skiing. If we get a good season its only a matter of time before someone eyes up a snow cannon! I still think Allenheads - smallest tows but a ready built reservoir 
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OAP, snowing quite a bit here in Richmond tonight. BBC 5 day forecast has snow and a south easterly wind solid for the next 3 days here.....but nothing for Penrith. Hope its wrong 
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/
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Peter S, Pennine ski club snow shield unfortunately seems in full effect for the next couple of hours. Seems its frustratingly close to Weardale.
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Forecast looking like some decent snow to tonight, hope it comes off !
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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good vid, seems like a nice long run.
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You know it makes sense.
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gutted to miss out due to work!! Looks great
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Poster: A snowHead
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Peter S, why is the tow not running today when the forecasters are saying up to 25cm of snow?
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mountainaddict, it's just frustrating when loads of snow is forecast, they are shut???
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Rick.....because the forecast is for 25cm and strong winds. As it turned out we could probably have opened this am....if we had any operators which we didn't. in the afternoon the snow and wind arrived.
The plan is to open tomorrow if we can get there. That message was put on the website on Thursday afternoon.
road looks difficult at the moment however :
http://www.durham.gov.uk/pages/WeatherStationDetails.aspx?station=49
though it should stop snowing tomorrow am. the rain and milder air arrives tomorrow evening.
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FAQ
- whereas we'd read that it was closed.....) Still, they said they'd enjoyed a bit of sliding about after their hike up.
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