Excellent Cover

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Wet. Started with heavy showers of ice pellets with clearance inbetween. After lunch it pretty well sleeted and rained all afternoon. Temp about plus 1 or 2 freezing level above 3000'. Wind fresh SW strengthening to near gale at times later on.

There is a HUGE amount of snow across all the main runs. No rocks or fences showing right from L'eau Noir to beyond the Presidents run. The whole of Savages gully is full and then some. No left to right camber, the skiing now has a perfectly even gradient. The 5m pylons had to be dug out (again)to provide headroom beneath meaning the uptrack is through a trench 1m plus deep. Remarkably P4 must also have 3.5 m of snow around it despite its exposed position. No where on the tow track has less than 1.5m of snow. It is possible that parts of Savages Gulley may exceed 15 even 20 feet of depth. More snow than 2009/10 and getting on for as much as 1990. Perhaps more near the top. All the snowcover in the Lakes is however on NE elevations. The pioneers at the LDSC certainly knew where to put the tow. 2 hours of digging and then 3 hours of excellent skiing on wet but firm snow. The difficult bit was the lift ride up into the teeth of the rain and wind through the tunnel.

about 30 skiers and riders