Excellent Cover

5

Intermittent snow showers continued throughout the morning and early afternoon which limited visibility on the upper mountain although it was fairly clear below the Rescue shed. Little wind on the front side of the hill but it was quite windy and exposed on the summit ridge and the outer parts of Etive glades with spindrift blowing. The sun eventually came out in the afternoon and the clouds lifted showing just how massive the snow accumulations are on Meall a' Bhuiridh.

Full, deep cover everywhere and lots of fresh snow to be found especially on the Etive glades and the Wall which were a delight to ski on all day with loads of fresh tracks to be found. The run down Rannoch side of the Main basin T-bar and the rock garden was absolutely loaded with deep soft snow and not a rock in sight and was the run of the day once the visibility improved. There were some harder icy and wind blown scraped areas on upper Rannoch and upper Etive glades and also the Spring run which was being pisted at the end of the day. Overall though it was a definite 5 out of 5 and a great effort again by the Glencoe team in digging out all the tows and Rescue shed!

Ken

munro33 at aol dot com

Excellent Cover

5

Fairly bright with some cloud but overall good viz, light wind and around freezing all day

Cover is brilliant, the depth all over the ski area and far far beyond the runs are skiable,
The amount of snow really renders the word runs redundant some of them you just don't know where they actually are anymore when fences and markers are totally buried.

The bull wheel on the summit tow has now been totaly buried and dug out 4 times , took till around 1pm today to get running after digging out the goose up tow first but a good bit of work and it was off and access to all runs then.

Surfaces were a bit scoured in places today but not too bad, Goose gully/Alt Sneachda held the best snow, had a few there, a few on sidewinder area which was nicely pisted, had 3 drops of Ed's way and also Warrens which both had scoured areas lower and nice higher up, beginers areas loaded most fences covered on Yockies.
Around 200 sliders or so on the hill despite the good forecast and fantastic conditions,
Never dropped the backs today, on my own most so not a good idea although did see at least one head round, no official word on the hill as guys too busy getting things going !

Just me

Excellent Cover

5

Pleasant day no wind on front of hill, breeze on the ridge. Freezing level rose to around mid cliffy later.
Cloudy morning with snow on and off, sunny spell mid afternoon.

Not much more to be said, cover is just incredible - getting tricky to navigate in clag as hill is so unusual. No rocks to point you in the right direction.
Good layer of fresh on a crusty base, lovely to ride for majority of mountain. Even got to almost tree line on fresh tracks from top of Springy at the end of the day.
Only downside is the mess of pushed snow and death cookies particularly under the cliffy. Oh and they were pisting the Spring run at the end of the day!?!

Andy and Jason

andybikeboatclimb at gmail dot com

Excellent Cover

4

Weather window was fairly small, started blowy but quickly subsided about 09: 30 to give bright spells but then closed in again about 13: 30. Significant drifting and uncomfortable on lifts. Skiing was good as wind was down the hill. It was hard to tell what was snow falling and what was blowing.

First thing the lower runs were hard after yesterdays mild temps, a bit clattery on the skis and not so nice for boards, from the platter up the snow was much softer but then as the wind changed and the drifting started the runs developed a thick layer of wind blown powder. The ridge run went from horrible to fantastic. All work carried out by the machines was quickly undone by the wind giving some interesting runs down. The White Lady and M1 remained closed all day and people were warned to keep away.

Graeme

ordersforgraeme at btinternet dot com