Excellent Cover

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snow and 0 deg C when we arrived. light snow falling from around ~3pm so definitely looked like the snow forecast for Saturday evening was starting.

Nice day, very little wind, visibility fine but a touch flat at times . Sun came out later in the morning into afternoon

2-3 inches of fresh covered everywhere first things. Great conditions everywhere.
Spent most of the day on the Wall, Etive Glades and the Canyon. All great snow. Word of warning: entrance to the Canyon has some tricky snow debris, hard & lumpy in places - take care on this part. Canyon great once in, more forgiving than usual (hence I got down it better than usual!) Main Basin still being dug out - so I decided to hike to the top to ski on the snow that had practically no tracks. Quite a few folks were doing that, most heading for the Spring Run which I heard was excellent. Powder & soft snow on Main Basin. Skied from the across to top of Etive Glades (to be fair across a part of the mountain I've probably never skied across) and went down Etive Glades. Top part was icy, then got into nice windblown powder. If you go from top of Wall T Bar into Etive Glades, you miss this scraped bit and get lovely snow. Mugs Alley, plateau, low road all loaded with soft snow.

Busy today, thanks to the Ski Patrol guy (or whoever it was) managing the Wall T Bar Queue. Made a huge difference. Typical Q time was ~10 mins, occassionally longer - longer than you usually get at the Coe but less I suspect that some other Scottish ski centres.
If you are at the Coe, please try to get the queue for the Cliffy heading towards the cafe rather than uphill - it means more of the run to ski on for all and less climbing uphill to get to the end of the queue.

So that was Day 7 of the season for me - getting close to break even for my season ticket (and 'in profit' for my son's) - with added benefit of no ticket queue in the morning.

Some photos attached, may get some video clips up later

Stephen & Callum