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 6 wheel drive plough cant get through the 4ft drifts in Cabrach direction
|  Scooby enjoying the snow
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 Plough to rescue after a 5min wait
|  Disco aborts after getting stuck
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 Haute route
|  Herringbone - very fast today, George opts to walk
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 Haute route
|  Max inspects the snow drift
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 Sheltered from gales in the snowy forest on Haute route
|  Sheltered from gales in the snowy forest on Haute route
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:: Tour Route(s) or Location Skied/Ridden
9km route round leids leap, haute route, herringbone, normans way
:: Weather Conditions
windy, but nice and sheltered in forest, below freezing, occasional snow showers, but in trees it was great
:: Snow Conditions and Distrubtion
FANTASTIC fresh powdery snow, lots of fresh tracks to follow, expect where drifted in clearings in forest at least 1ft of snow.
Road difficult last 300m to carpark, most cars parked a mile back in forest access track enterance.
we got through in the 1ft snow in our scooby, as had a Disco, A3 quattro and van with chains.
by time we got back drifts bigger - over 4ft in Cabrach direction. Disco couldnt get through in rhynie direction, but a 6wd snow plough beast came along and cleared road, but it couldnt get beyond carpark in the deep drifts - one for a JCB or snowblower it think!
:: Skiers/Riders
Andrew & Georgina Cook
This report was posted by telemarker at 17.39hrs on Sat 10th Feb 07
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