•Winterhighland Snow Reports

•Mountain Weather Outlook

•English Club Fields Summary

•Mobile Reports

•Winterhighland Webcams - Glencoe Cam Update

•Ski Area Contact Numbers & Websites

All five areas are offering the vast bulk of if not all terrain, so now is your chance to grab a week day slide before all areas start to get busier from Thursday onwards.

Hill fog continues to drift in just when you think it's clearing up, it's going to be a potential problem over the next few days with the way the weather pattern is set up, but as CairnGorm showed on Sunday morning it can disperse quickly to give some brighter or even sunny spells, but then come back in just as quick.

One thing that shouldn't be a problem over the next few days is wind and with any snow showers that are around expected to be light there shouldn't be any road (or lift) delays on the weather front from drifting snow.

With a good to epic base in place, East still got the greatest depth and extent of coverage, with cool temps expected this week it's looking like we're well set up for the local Schools long weekend that's coming up and the start of half term. High pressure looks set to be close by so hopefully fairly settled for the upcoming long weekend.

On the slopes all runs are fully complete in the East with extensive options outwith the fences and marked trails, ride anywhere cover on the upper half of the mountain at CairnGorm and Buzzard side of the Lecht. The only reason it's not total ride anywhere cover now is the substantial wind re-distribution in the mid January storm, but that's really turned out to be good news with the snow going in all the right places to give a superb base at CairnGorm, the Lecht and Glenshee.

In the West the best riding and cover remains on the upper half of the respective mountains, but there is ample snow for decent riding back to the top of the Access lifts by a variety of routes.

Surface conditions have been a mixed bag changing with altitude, aspect and time of day. Where the snow had softened on Saturday it firmed up for Sunday morning, but softened up again during Sunday. Temps have fallen back so firmer snow can be expected on the lower half of the mountains on Monday, but where recently pisted it's likely to loosen up to granular spring like snow. Generally it's been firm grippy snow that takes an edge well, but there are some areas that have become hardpacked and icy, a notable one is the East Wall on CairnGorm, while the Ciste Gully below was great. Higher up there is still fairly fresh and loose snow.

Glenshee and Glencoe offered up a full house in terms of available lifts on Sunday, some duplicate lifts may not run Monday, but all available lifts could run if demand at all but Nevis Range where the Back Corries remain in their 'off-piste' status.

At CairnGorm Mountain a shuttle bus will be on site every morning, well worth checking if it's running. If it is then it's well worth utilising it as uplift, as you can ski out the full length of the Aonach Bowl, Ciste Gully and East Wall into the lower Ciste Gully and out to the Car Park. The lower main pitch of the West Wall is also complete and can be accessed off the Aonach Bowl dropping down a diagonal line past the end of the chairlift boardwalks (watch for traverse tracks to the WWP higher up).

:: Winterhighland Snow Reports

Don't forget to check the area pages, Pix from the Slopes and the Public Reports for further information on conditions.

:: Mountain Weather Outlook

Similar to Sunday but colder day on Monday, snow flurries increasing restricted to the Eastern most hills though. Some bright spells could come through, in theory these should be most likely in the West with an East wind, but it didn't really workout that way in the West on Sunday! FL dropping to 1000ft with -4 to possibly -5°c at 3000ft. East 15 to 30mph.

Wind swinging round to the NE will drop the Freezing Level to about 500 in the East for Tuesday, Munro Level temps betwee -4 and -5°c. Some light snow showers likely in the Cairngorms, but visibility outwith snow should be better than the weekend! NE 20 to 35mph.

Ridge of High Pressure close by or overhead from mid-week, exact position will determine day to day overhead conditions, but on the whole winds should be moderate at most with the FL below the lower slopes.

:: English Club Fields Summary

Please check club websites for the latest situation regarding day tickets and membership.

At Yad Moss, day tickets will only be guaranteed to be available until 11.30am. on weekends. Season Ticket Holders are not affected.

Harwood: http://harwoodski.webs.com/
Allenheads: http://www.ski-allenheads.co.uk/
Yad Moss: http://www.yadmoss.co.uk
Swinhope/Weardale: http://www.skiweardale.com
Raise: http://www.ldscsnowski.co.uk

:: Mobile Reports

Avoid wasted trips! Check the latest on the go with our Mobile reports, point your phone to winterhighland.info (most phones will go straight to our mobile site). It's also a good idea to pop the ski area phone numbers at the foot of this page in your mobile.

:: Winterhighland Webcams - Glencoe Cam Update

A site visit will be undertaken to Glencoe on Friday 4th February, a follow up visit with a longer term fix to the webcam comms problem is planned for next week, once again apologies for the down time.

NEW: Loch Morlich Webcam showing CairnGorm from the Windy Ridge, west over Coire Cas, Sneachda and Lochain is now live.

NEW Glencoe: http://www.winterhighland.info/cams/glencoe/ .

CairnGorm SSC: www.winterhighland.info/cams/cairngorm-mountain .

An additional weather station is now live at the foot of the Sheiling Trainer tow on the middle of the Lower Slopes, live data and graphs of the past 48hours weather can be found at www.winterhighland.info/cairngorm .

Mountain Spirit host our Aviemore Webcam which looks down Grampian Road in the direction of the Ski Road. See www.winterhighland.info/cams/aviemore .

:: Ski Area Contact Numbers & Websites

Glencoe: 0871 871 9929 www.glencoemountain.co.uk
Nevis Range: 01397 705825 www.nevisrange.co.uk
Lecht: 01975 651440 www.lecht.co.uk
CairnGorm: 01479 861261 www.cairngormmountain.co.uk
Glenshee: 013397 41320 www.ski-glenshee.co.uk