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