Excellent Cover

5

Mixed. Started a bit claggy/windy. wind dropped and clag lifted. Closed in again at end of play with the wind especially getting up.

Goose, gully, and either side of goose t-bar, and quad chair was superb. Beginners area's looked good. Warrens was good for the top 3rd, icy below. Summit button runs icy in places. Peered over the backs. Too windy/claggy/and entrances currently too steep for me!

Nigel

nigelmwebber at gmail dot com

Excellent Cover

5

snow and 0 deg C when we arrived. light snow falling from around ~3pm so definitely looked like the snow forecast for Saturday evening was starting.

Nice day, very little wind, visibility fine but a touch flat at times . Sun came out later in the morning into afternoon

2-3 inches of fresh covered everywhere first things. Great conditions everywhere.
Spent most of the day on the Wall, Etive Glades and the Canyon. All great snow. Word of warning: entrance to the Canyon has some tricky snow debris, hard & lumpy in places - take care on this part. Canyon great once in, more forgiving than usual (hence I got down it better than usual!) Main Basin still being dug out - so I decided to hike to the top to ski on the snow that had practically no tracks. Quite a few folks were doing that, most heading for the Spring Run which I heard was excellent. Powder & soft snow on Main Basin. Skied from the across to top of Etive Glades (to be fair across a part of the mountain I've probably never skied across) and went down Etive Glades. Top part was icy, then got into nice windblown powder. If you go from top of Wall T Bar into Etive Glades, you miss this scraped bit and get lovely snow. Mugs Alley, plateau, low road all loaded with soft snow.

Busy today, thanks to the Ski Patrol guy (or whoever it was) managing the Wall T Bar Queue. Made a huge difference. Typical Q time was ~10 mins, occassionally longer - longer than you usually get at the Coe but less I suspect that some other Scottish ski centres.
If you are at the Coe, please try to get the queue for the Cliffy heading towards the cafe rather than uphill - it means more of the run to ski on for all and less climbing uphill to get to the end of the queue.

So that was Day 7 of the season for me - getting close to break even for my season ticket (and 'in profit' for my son's) - with added benefit of no ticket queue in the morning.

Some photos attached, may get some video clips up later

Stephen & Callum

Excellent Cover

5

Sunny spells in the morning after early morning cloud lifted off the hill. Still blustery on the summit with spindrift blowing and a bit more cloud moving in during the afternoon. A cold day once the gloves came off for photos.

Amazing overall depth and cover of snow with only a few wind scoured patches in the more exposed areas of Lemmings ridge and towards the east of Warrens. The Goose, Alt Snechda and Cats Alley fabulous forgiving deep snow. Coire Dubh today however was the icing on the cake with some wonderful windblown soft powder all the way to the foot of the Nid ridge at the bottom of the Rob Roy tow. Yellow Belly was giving a good access after ski patrol had blown the cornices this morning.

Ken

munro33 at aol dot com

Excellent Cover

5

Sunny most of the day but occasional low cloud and light snow showers. Wind picked up by later after noon but did not affect uplift. About 16: 30 it was touch and go for the train and the staff got out smartly at 17: 00 from the top.

A busy Saturday but as soon as the WWP came on the hill balanced out to give very acceptable queuing times. I don't often give a 5 for surface but today in the Ciste gully and white lady it deserved a 5+. Lower slopes and Cas were a 4. Drifting increased around 16: 00 and wind chill was very noticeable. A very enjoy able day. Run of the day was the Ciste gully by far then the WL. Ryvoan was wide but a bit chopped up in places to give it a 5, Anoch bowl a little wind swept but plenty of soft to make it worth a second run.

Graeme

ordersforgraeme at btinternet dot com

Excellent Cover

5

Sunny spells am, more cloudy pm. Wind not bad until 4.30pm when it started getting up. Visibility excellent when not in the clouds. Too cold for my phone to let me take many pictures, probably subzero all day. Some light snow pm.

Amazing depth everywhere to well below the gondola top station. Even beginner runs are well filled. At the Alpha, occasional tips of snow fences visible. Quad chair about 3ft off the fairway 2/3rds of the way up. Tower 6 of the Goose barely above head height. Summit button reel housing attacks at chest level and cable is only just above head height.

Coire Dubh, Goose, Fairway, Allt Snechda, Nid, around Rob Roy and runs above the Gondola top station all 5/5 for surface.

Flight and Warrens not so good, nice snow alternating with ice. Tricky to stay on the snow whenever the clouds came. A bit wind blown on Summit.

Fresh soft blown snow in Coire Dubh all afternoon made for fantastic skiing if you could face the steep entrances.

First turn on Nid wall icy but then smooth and creamy down to bottom of Rob Roy.

Goose fantastic in the morning and even better in the afternoon as refreshed with falling/blowing snow.

10min queue for Gondola down. Ski on or negligible queues all day though the beginner tow looked a little busier (I just walked to the Alpha).

Neil and Dave

neilbrown at doctors dot org dot uk