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CairnGorm Mountain // Monday 16th April 2012
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Looking tasty from the lochside

Across the Ptarmigan bowl. Great cover but watch the hidden rocks

Up the Ciste bowl. Great powder here but careful route selection necessary to find the snow bridges over the burn for regaining the Ciste tow

Fairway

From the top of the Ptarmigan. Nessie rollers to left of fence. A few rocks but great snow.

M1! Steep & deep (between the rocks) : -)

out across the Cas. more here please!

 
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Report
:: Snow Cover
Limited Terrain Complete/Open.
:: Surface Conditions (out of 5)
5
:: Weather Conditions
Bluebird & calm! (at at least very light winds). Awesome day at the 'Gorm. Still grinning : -). FL must have been not too far above car park first thing, raised during the day.
:: Snow Conditions & Info
Great conditions in the Ptarmigan / Ciste bowls. Lots of people shredding the off-piste powder off the Ptarmigan ridge. Fully tracked out by early afternoon. Ciste fairway & pisted Partmigan run (a few rocks at the top) running nicely on skier packed or pisted powder. Ciste & Ptarmigan and the polar express were the running tows. Came down the Cas side at the end. M1 amazing if you could avoid the rocks & found some really deep stuff outside the left fence. Gave up around timing hut level as it was too rocky even for my tatty old planks. Was worth the walk out tho! Not enough snow yet to run any tows on that side (expect maybe the upper cas?).
:: Riders
Austin2planks
This report was posted by austin2planks at 20.53hrs on Mon 16th Apr 12


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