Most Terrain has Good Cover.

4

Excellent day with cloud above summit and exceelent visibility. Some gusts later in afternoon. Getting warmer as day progressed with top 4-6cm of snow pack becoming wet.

Generally excellent cover for November. Probably could ski anywhere on well packed snow , a little crusty lower down towards Plateau Poma and Mugs. Fresh tracks on Main Basin for first two runs on very good snow, almost spring like. Full width of Main Basin available down to and including Haggis Trap. Run down Happy Valley very good uniform surface. Spring Run very good on uniform firm surface snow down left hand side and then onto mixed snow lower down to Poma track. East ridge and Baillies looked excellent but didn't have enough in legs to go back up. First class November conditions. Bowls over at Creis area looked very complete and good. A quick look down Memorial Gulley also looked promising.

Gary Todd (Starav Posse) + Big Davey and Paul on Spring Run

offpistescotland at tiscali dot co dot uk

Most Terrain has Good Cover.

5

Bit of wind and cloud all day, very windy on Meall a'Buiridh summit, but no hassles on the runs. Freezing level fairly high, maybe 2500ft.

Good cover from bottom of Cliffhanger upwards, all runs I rode had full, deep cover. Plateau uptrack complete, plateau runs passable with care. Finished the day by riding from summit to top of Access chair, board on all the way and no rock-hopping! Crusty lower down, nice spring snow up high.

Stevomcd

stevo_mcd at hotmail dot com

Mostly Skiable - Some Areas Thin/Narrow

3

Sunny and calm; freezing level 2,000 feet. Started to snow heavily at 16: 00

Much poorly compacted, heavy, slightly wind blown snow, generally 700mm deep on upper slopes, but more than 2,000mm in places. Don't leave your skins behind. Enough snow to ensure only rarest contact with rocks on main run and Spring run and on down to 2 000 feet. 1,900 feet unbroken vertical descent.

Jungle

andrew dot napier1 at btinternet dot com

Mostly Skiable - Some Areas Thin/Narrow

3

Light snow showers (!) most of the day, gradually becoming clearer as the day went on. Flat light early on, but improved throughout the day, with visibility improving likewise. Estimate FL about 1600m.

Still excellent cover on upper runs: flypaper, spring run, rannoch glades, main basin, happy valley all complete. Lower slopes have less available, with a few incomplete. 5-10cm of fresh snow overnight on top of previous day's frozen moguls made for difficult conditions early on, but softened up as day progressed.

duncan

thom-ci0 at paisley dot ac dot uk

Mostly Skiable - Some Areas Thin/Narrow

2

Mostly overcast with light snow flurries thoughout the day! Weather clearing up around mid afternoon - blue skies and sunshine! Very light wind.

Freezing level rising during the day, fresh snow had been lying to below the top of the access chair in the morning.

First thing in the morning was interesting... Deep fresh snow (5-6 inches at the top) hiding frozen mogul fields in the main basin and happy valley. But these runs improved, softened and were chopped up as the day wore on.

Conditions on the Spring Run were excellent around mid day, soft (but not too soft) fresh snow.

Lower runs patchy, but it was possible to pick a route down to the cliffy (via Mugs Alley) with a sort strol to the cafe, and possible to ski most of the way back to the access chairlift via the plateau poma track (with minor rock hopping).

*There is still stacks of snow up there and the area is only closing for the season due to a lack of skier numbers! There were only 50 skiers today... and only 24(!!!) last monday!*

Andy Kent + Andy Robertson

andydckent at btinternet dot com