Mostly Skiable - Some Areas Thin/Narrow

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Sunny spells and very light winds. Warm in the sun.

There has been significant snow loss over the week, and the hill certainly doesn't look pretty from the access road. However, there is still a lot of snow on the upper mountain. The Goose has full (Wide) cover up to a point approximately level with the top of the quad chair; after that it's a bit thinner, but you can still ski to the foot of the Goose T-Bar. The summit runs also retain full cover and apparently Warren's is still passable, although I didn't ski that today.

The Back Corries are still well loaded, and the braveheart chair span today. The Cornices are getting a bit unstable - a massive crack appeared today next to the entry to Chancer, and there is a lot of avalanche debris from fallen cornices on the traverse back round towards the Snowgoose. It is possible to ski to the top of the Rob Roy T Bar from the Back Corries, and then it's a 300m walk back to the snowgoose.

Lovely granular spring snow today, great for wide carving turns.

Nevis are now shut on weekdays from tomorrow, but they said they will assess the snow conditions next weekend.

Barclay & Alex

simonahickman at btinternet dot com

Limited Terrain Complete/Open.

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Almost blue sky day warm with stubborn clouds coming and going but no wind. Freezing level well above summit.

Hmmm what a change since last Saturday. An unbelievable amount of snow has shifting. Goose still has full length quad run is gone though. Warrens looked complete but t-bar not running today. Summit complete. All the snow inbetween run is gone pretty much. Back corries still pretty loaded although theres now a lenghty walk back to Restaurant that starts by fence above Great Glen chair. The traverse from the top of Brave heart to that point is broken in a few areas too. Despite this Summit run and spikes is in great shape (look out for unstable cracks in cornice by spikes) and the run out to bottom of braveheart gets you almost there with just a 5 min walk. The cornice above Easy gully looks mental! All this irrelevant cause the ski patrol guy said that today was last day.

DaveE and Graham Calder.

davideadie at hotmail dot com