Most Terrain has Good Cover.

4

Temperature around about freezing all day. Fresh westerly wind. Cloudy in the morning but clearing to a lovely sunny afternoon.

Huge drifts in first thing which took over an hour to piste out. Really good cover on most of the main run though a little thin and narrow near the bottom.

Powder gulley complete. Other runs skiable but thin.

A really good days skiing. best conditions for four years.

100 plus skiers and snowboarders

Mostly Skiable - Some Areas Thin/Narrow

3

Over cast then brightening up. The slopes were sheltered from the wind that got up later in the day.

The main piste areas were all skiable to one degree or another the best sport was to be had west of F2 were the new snow fencing was working a treat. A rough piste by piste report as follows:

F1 (the lower of the two tows)
F1 East Piste - down the tow line infront of the club hut. Pisted but bristley in places. Didnt see a lot of traffic through the day.

F1 West Tow Line - down the snow fencing was pisted later in the day to about 5m width. Soft going.

F1 Mid West - pisted but but icey. Didnt see enough traffic to smooth the surface out.

F1 Far West - best sport of the lower runs. Improved thoughout the day. Linked niecly with the run down the new snow fencing west of F2 to give 800-900m run. Probably the most popular run.

F2 (the upper tow) Best conditions on the hill as the snow had banked out in the steeping midway down the hill.

F2 West Piste - wind direction and new snow fencing are giving great sport down the west of the tow. Steep and sedgeless - hurrah.

F2 East Piste - bashed in the morning. Still a bit soft in the afternoon but better cover than there has been over the last few years.

Further out - went for an explore way out west of F2 into the head of the valley. Still a bit heavy. Not worth it. Gully east of the tows isnt in condition.

Around 50 - 80 skiing and boarding

brucew437 at hotmail dot com

Mostly Skiable - Some Areas Thin/Narrow

4

Blue sky morning, with patchy low cloud and light snow in the afternoon. FL below car park level in afternoon.

limited terrain open - best of the open area was tiger/thunderbowl area, where snow was powder/ thin crust on top of powder & ride anywhere conditions. Closed areas have cover and not far away from being opened - esp Caenlochan & out to Glas Maol..

Most Terrain has Good Cover.

5

Windy/cold on the lifts, Weather very changable until about 2PM then it brightened up. Some good spells in the morning, but blink and you missed them. Windy/cold high up, and a wee bit unpleasant when that was combined with heavy snow.

Excellent surface conditions, lovely snow. Few rocks still showing, but mostly well marked. No ice to speak of, but off the edges of some of the pisted runs, wind scouring was evident. Car park run not, bad for the first 2/3, tricky after that, but a heck of a giggle.

Nigel & Lucy

nigelwebber at yahoo dot co dot uk

Excellent Cover

5

Cool, with a breeze, poor visibilty only early on, clearing to a grand day

Raise is a favoured spot in these conditions. It has caught a good amount of snow, an easy metre of flat snow and anything that is blowing around is ending up there resulting in superb cover of light soft stuff and some mighty drifts. Good touring cover, but variable, good descents on drift lines.

30-40 members at a guess