yeh I am off for 2 weeks now so happy to put the strain on the other resort lifts, give GS a rest from pulling my beer gut up the hill


Be nice to skiers...they have enough problems already

Just read on cairngorm website that the m1 Poma is open. Says they have shovelled enough snow to open it. That will help with the ques a bit

Adam

Good news, but why not have done this proactively before the weekend like Glencoe did with the Top Button tow a couple of weeks ago, rather than reactively on the Sunday?

If you've eaten snow today, thank a snow farmer

Yes it was an amazing feat to get the poma open considering it was green and brown for a large part of its track on Thursday and yesterday.

They had been talking about trying to get it open this week.I'm not a snow expert but the pack was sodden on Thursday and yesterday. I wasn't there on Friday so I can't comment about its state then. From speaking to the outdoor crew on various occasions I have heard them say that to shift snow when it is sodden lets the warm air in and speeds up the thaw. I suspect that the overnight freeze probably made moving snow viable hence the poma got going today,There's so little about to move that doing it earlier might have wasted it. These are my thoughts, but obviously the guys who did the amazing work are the ones with the actual facts.

Was brilliant, skiing straight onto it from the back of three till it closed at 4.20pm. as there was no queue at all. Some pics attached, Might put some more up later as I had a 2/3rd's touring 1/3 piste day...

Helen

Attachments: Yeah ! M1 Poma gets going.JPG (145kB)   Half way up.JPG (79kB)   Looking over to the Lady showing the track where some of the snow came from.JPG (77kB)  

How busy has Cairngorm been this week end? Not heard to much about the conditions and was considering heading over there later this week?

That's some more photos up [www.winterhighland.info]

Peaches, on Saturday the tows were quite busy before and after lunch until the back of three. I was helping on the Ciste tow and there was a single line that at its worst went just round the end of the fairway fence. Over lunch I'd a couple of runs on the Cas and the queue wasn't even to the end of the gantry. For the last hour it was really quiet.
Today the ambassadors that were working said the tows were busy. I was on piste from the back of 3pm and there was no queue for the M1.

Snow was very soft on Saturday, froze overnight but was well pisted giving good skiing today.

Hope it's ok for you if you do go.

Helen

will head up mid week so should not be as busy.

Make sure you get there in time to get a ticket. Sounds like they stopped selling tickets after a certain time today. Presume that was to keep queues to acceptable levels. Does anyone know what time that was?

First notification of suspension of ticket sales was in a report issued at 11.20am.

Might wait till the end of mid term holidays then. Might be some more snow by that time as well

ditto end of next week after a northerly storm...fingers and toes crossed

Be nice to skiers...they have enough problems already

Just seen on police website that met office has issued weather warning for significant snow for this saturday is this the second part of winter starting

This looks more like it:

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Anyone got any photos of the sheiling when it was open as a restraunt back in the day? Curious as to what has changed about it. I beleive it was closed after a fire? Why was it never fully repaired? Seen that Cairngorm has opened part of it as a packed luch area which can only be a good move.