Excellent Cover

5

sunny, some cloud around, occasional snow showers, strong winds early on, dropping considerably as the day went on

fresh snow further improved cover, first thing was epic, loads of freshiess, drifting in with the wind. As the wind moderated the the crowds did the opposite, forming considerable queues on all lifts. There was a small park set up near the plateau cafe and little rail jam. Overall great cover, not many thin areas and some great skiing to be had!!

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Excellent Cover

3

Heavy snowfall all day with very poor visibility. Windy at times but not too strong. Snow down to Loch Morlich.

The cover was excellent on all open runs and improved throughout the day with around 30cm falling. Under-ski, the snow was quite slow and wet. In the morning you could get thrown about quite a bit when you skied across hard pisted snow onto areas of soft fresh snow. This wouldn't have been such an issue if you could see where you were going. Fiacaill Traverse onto Jean's Bowl was the best I have ever skied it. Incredible snow cover in the bowl with the bouldery and heathery patch towards the Fiacaill poma filled in by the end of the day. Few were skiing it as you had to know your way, keeping high and traversing to where the old Fiacaill T-bar ran to before dropping down to Jean's bowl. White lady and M1 were good with the best, drier snow higher up. Ciste t-bar came on after lunch and there was lovely powder in the Ciste bowl if you trusted your skiing in the poor visibility. They were working on de-icing and pisting the uptrack for the WWP, but this never came on. Car Park T-bar, Cas t-bar, M1 poma and eventually the Ciste t-bar were open for uplift. Runs open were Cas, M1, White Lady, 105, gunbarrel, zigzags, fiacaill travers, lower slopes and ciste fairway (M2 and over yonder were ready to go but no West Wall Poma).

Gordie Bryce & Torin Moffat

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Most Terrain has Good Cover.

4

strong N wind, broken cloud, sun and heavy snow showers. Minus 1 all day at carpark

Uptracks were icy and a bit of a challenge with the winds. Pistes had full width cover and surfaces variable with drifting and a few natural hazards. Snowy squalls at times reduced the vis to near zero. Some fences were buried and a few natural jumps appeared adding to the fun. Cairnwell chair had a brief run as did Sunnyside but the wind was against us. Butcharts was the best run of the day and with the tbar going you could avoid the queues

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