 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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lovely 
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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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That is excellent. Hope Glencoe enjoys a great fortnight ahead for the Easter hols. Great little mountain - well worth a ski.
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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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I'm afraid I've not got any pictures, but just had a great weekend at Cairngorm. Saturday was not as windy as forecast and was mainly sunny. Most runs were open with good snow, wind blown powder on top of a hard base. The WWpoma was fixed and running so the Ciste gulley was open, unpisted and full of windblown powder. The Aonach bowl was nice with large areas of pwder and the odd area of hard icy neve in between. Tried skiing it before lunch on my tele kit, but decided I might make a better fist of it on my AT kit in the afternoon. First time I've had my heel imprisoned for a few weeks and it felt really odd. Not sure I made much of a better fist of it and the AT kit left my ankles aching horribly.
Camped overnight at Loch Morlich in a blizzard - not good for a decent night sleep, but did mean lots of fresh powder up the hill next day. More blue sky and sunshine interspersed with heavy snow showers. The higher winds meant the Ciste tow and west wall poma didn't open 'till just after lunch and that there was even the occasional queue on the M1 poma in the morning - queues have been an endagered species at Cairngorm recently. The additional snow aswell has also filled out the lower runs that had lost a lot of snow earlier in the week so can now ski the whole of the daylodge (though still then at the bottom) and the Fiacall Ridge run is full width again. There is some really nice skiing on the hill at the moment - so if you can't make Nevis or Coe get out on the Gorm.
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T Bar,
Excellent. Do you live far away?
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Dave Horsley,
Lovely pics 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Lovely pics, Dave. Thanks!
Thinking back to the 1970s, I did my BASI 3 training on Cairngorm in early May 1975. We used the tows up top, the West Wall chair, Cas and White Lady. I'm not in the BASI loop at the moment, but my impression is that Cairngorm has unavoidably been abandoned as a training mountain, despite BASI's HQ remaining at Glenmore.
The greatest day I ever spent on Cairngorm (wish I could remember the year) was May Day - the snow cover was almost unlimited. Off-piste everywhere. Hope you get one of those magic storms this spring!
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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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Dave Horsley,
Know any good B+Bs in Aberdeen. I am over for a mate's wedding on 21st July.
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They are Telemarkers pics not mine, but yesterday was one of my best days so far this year, perhaps because I had to work for my turns. One of these days I'll have to get myself a digital camera. If the weather is good next weekend I'll probably head back up and try and tour over t0 Ben Macdui cover looked so good this weekend.
David Goldsmith,
No idea about Basi, but there was an ESF instructor on the hill Sunday  (from Megeve, though he sounded British). He was telemarking and said he was off over the back. Some of the local clubs were holding races on a variety of runs ranging from the M1 to a steeper bit of the bowl just below the Ptarmigan tow for the little kids. I'm surprised there hasn't been more gates training on the hill the last few weekends as the cover has been so good.
johnboy,
I'm afraid not, when we have visting staff over from Germany we usually put them up in The Cocket Hat, but I wouldn't particularly recomend it - just your standard harvester type chain.
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You know it makes sense.
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Dave Horsley,
Looks great
johnboy,
I'm in the Glasgow area so about 80 miles away.
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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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T Bar,
You lucky sod. How come Glencoe is holding up so well this year? Mega Dump?
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Poster: A snowHead
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johnboy,
It gets great snow from time to time, but my meterology is not up to why I'm afraid, the best snow fell in March and whilst I was away in France but it seems to have held on well, it is generally East and North facing.
Also gets it's share of wind and rain to but you try and forget those days. 
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