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Weardale - Sun 10th Jan 2010

Posted by: oldagedpredator at 23.06hrs on Wed 13th Jan 10

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Mostly Skiable - Some Areas Thin/Narrow

:: Surface Conditions (out of 5)

:: Weather Conditions

Strong strong winds from the NE. Not good for a NE facing slope. Clear at times, but clouded over with spindrift squals and flat light. Tow shut 14: 00 due to high winds causing the access road to block. Whcih it did after a van got stuck. Leaving hill took about 2hr.

:: Snow Conditions & Info

Striped back to base with ice and scoured patches on exposed ridges. Change in wind direction to East should re-fill all fences and runs.

Best cover West runs of F2.

Off piste heavy.

The hangover after 3 Days of the Powder.

:: Riders

Members only until further notice

Weardale - Sun 3rd Jan 2010

Posted by: oldagedpredator at 13.32hrs on Mon 4th Jan 10

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Excellent Cover

:: Surface Conditions (out of 5)

:: Weather Conditions

Clear blue sky with the sun again reaching the day lodge. Time to move those benches back!

:: Snow Conditions & Info

Powder fields in the rushes, a little scrubed on some of the runs but only very very small sections. Some heavy some ice but all fun. Its very very close to being as good as it gets. Saturdays winds robbing some of the powder. Everything will go.

Report Edited Once. Last edited by oldagedpredator: 2010-01-04 13:36:33

Weardale - Sat 19th Dec 2009

Posted by: oldagedpredator at 12.55hrs on Mon 21st Dec 09

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Limited Terrain Complete/Open.

:: Surface Conditions (out of 5)

:: Weather Conditions

Clear blue skies but it faces north so no sun on the slopes at this time of year until you pop out at the top of F2.

:: Snow Conditions & Info

The wide pistes west of F1 mean Weardale offers some good length wide runs even under the current thin conditions. East of F1 a bit more the traditional Pennine grass skiing including a 3-4m frozen mud section. F2 - the wind has been in the wrong direction to build up on the new west line fences off the top of F2. For sedge hoppers only until the wind switches. Which it looked like it had on Sat eve.

Enough to be entertaining.

:: E-Mail Contact

brucew437 at hotmail dot com

Weardale - Fri 13th Feb 2009

Posted by: Guest at 18.24hrs on Mon 16th Feb 09

:: Snow Cover

Mostly Skiable - Some Areas Thin/Narrow

:: Surface Conditions (out of 5)

:: Weather Conditions

Clear, cool and blue.

:: Snow Conditions & Info

75% to 85% cover on most runs off F1, F2 wasnt running. I dont know, you wait four years for decent cover and then cant get at it.

Snow was a real mixed bag but was all going spring like. Not sure about conditions off the top but have included some pics of the gully and black scar in the photos.

Didnt recognise a single face today. Got told quite a few times about lines that had never been skied before. Perhaps not since the 80s. Apparently wednesday was the day and the club field just felt quite chiled out in an after glow kind of way.

:: Riders