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CairnGorm Mountain - Mon 18th Mar 2019
Posted by: veletron at 09.30hrs on Tue 19th Mar 19

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:: Snow Cover
Excellent Cover
:: Surface Conditions (out of 5)
5
:: Weather Conditions
Bluebird with no wind!
:: Snow Conditions & Info
After radar skiing at Nevis range, today was a breath of fresh air. Perfect visibility and perfect snow. I was going to tour today, but was unable to find a touring buddy and had developed a cold so I opted to tour from the top of the lifts. All the open runs were in decent shape with the ciste and then the WWP following the initially offering of CPT, M1 and CAS T bar a little later. M2 was great, ditto M1 all the traverse runs in grand order, Ciste skiing well, and plenty lines from top of CAS. The top half of the lady was great with the lower half a bit 'ball bearing'. The bowl skiiers right of the M2 was also grand. I headed up to the summit the. Down Ciste Mhearad. Great for the top half, but soft and 'grabby' snow lower down. I stayed clear of the steep pitches as did everyone else. The temps over the comming days likely to wipe out the lower slopes, bit plenty touring to be had!
:: Riders
Nigel
:: E-Mail Contact
nigelmwebber at gmail dot com

CairnGorm Mountain - Sat 16th Mar 2019
Posted by: GordieB at 20.10hrs on Sun 17th Mar 19

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:: Snow Cover
Excellent Cover
:: Surface Conditions (out of 5)
3
:: Weather Conditions
Heavy snowfall all day with very poor visibility. Windy at times but not too strong. Snow down to Loch Morlich.
:: Snow Conditions & Info
The cover was excellent on all open runs and improved throughout the day with around 30cm falling. Under-ski, the snow was quite slow and wet. In the morning you could get thrown about quite a bit when you skied across hard pisted snow onto areas of soft fresh snow. This wouldn't have been such an issue if you could see where you were going. Fiacaill Traverse onto Jean's Bowl was the best I have ever skied it. Incredible snow cover in the bowl with the bouldery and heathery patch towards the Fiacaill poma filled in by the end of the day. Few were skiing it as you had to know your way, keeping high and traversing to where the old Fiacaill T-bar ran to before dropping down to Jean's bowl. White lady and M1 were good with the best, drier snow higher up. Ciste t-bar came on after lunch and there was lovely powder in the Ciste bowl if you trusted your skiing in the poor visibility. They were working on de-icing and pisting the uptrack for the WWP, but this never came on. Car Park T-bar, Cas t-bar, M1 poma and eventually the Ciste t-bar were open for uplift. Runs open were Cas, M1, White Lady, 105, gunbarrel, zigzags, fiacaill travers, lower slopes and ciste fairway (M2 and over yonder were ready to go but no West Wall Poma).
:: Riders
Gordie Bryce & Torin Moffat
:: E-Mail Contact
g dot bryce at hotmail dot com

CairnGorm Mountain - Mon 11th Feb 2019
Posted by: Skicadets at 19.52hrs on Mon 11th Feb 19

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:: Snow Cover
Most Terrain has Good Cover.
:: Surface Conditions (out of 5)
4
:: Weather Conditions
sunny, clouded over a bit in the afternoon.
:: Snow Conditions & Info
decent cover on open runs with good surface conditions after a few centimeters of fresh snow.

lifts open:
carpark t-bar
sheiling sunkid
M1
snowbadger rope tow

with the west wall opening for the first time this season at around 14: 45.

only criticism was both ptarmigan and ciste tows had no hangars on, if they were on it would have reduced the queues on the M1 and carpark lifts.

overall a good day to be up on the hill
:: Riders
skicadets

CairnGorm Mountain - Sun 23rd Dec 2018
Posted by: Mountainaddict at 10.51hrs on Wed 26th Dec 18

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:: Snow Cover
Limited Terrain Complete/Open.
:: Surface Conditions (out of 5)
3
:: Weather Conditions
Dense for. Freezing level around mid station level.
:: Snow Conditions & Info
Patchy cover/strips below mid station. Ok for skinning up
from Gunbarrel; cover very good from bottom of Traverse. Difficult descending in thick for from top of Ptarmigan snow - zero visibility and definition, with drifts. Ciste and East Wall excellent cover - White Lady was pick of the day.
:: Riders
Mountainaddict and Mrs Mountainaddict
:: E-Mail Contact
alan dot crawford65 at gmail dot com

CairnGorm Mountain - Wed 4th Apr 2018
Posted by: Skicadets at 17.08hrs on Wed 4th Apr 18

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:: Snow Cover
Excellent Cover
:: Surface Conditions (out of 5)
5
:: Weather Conditions
Flat light and snowing pretty much constantly until the end of the day when it finally brightened up. Poor Visibility
:: Snow Conditions & Info
"Wow!" sums up today in a nutshell. Average snowfall overnight was a good foot and you can multiply that by several for some of the large drifts. All runs much improved though some were hard to ski as you couldn't see where you were going and the snow was so deep that unless you had extremely wide skis but even they got a bit stuck. Get up and play in the freshies now and as Iron Maiden would say run to the hills
:: Riders
skicadets

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