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 Canyon.
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 View from the car park at the end of the day.
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 Summit Station - clouds starting to lift/clear.
|  Clouds clearing.
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 Sun breaking through.
|  Cliff-hanger.
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 My first drop down the Flypaper this season.
|  Entering the Flypaper.
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 Lone skier on the Spring Run.
|  Clouds lifting in the afternoon.
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 The young skier fell on the Flypaper and was quickly assisted by other skiers and the Ski Patrol.
|  Access chair lift at the end of the day. Some skiers were still dropping the Black Access run to the car park.
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 The ski track from the top station to the Spring Run worked really well today.
|  Haggis Trap.
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 Haggis Trap.
|  Fly Paper opened in the afternoon.
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:: Snow Cover
Excellent Cover
:: Surface Conditions (out of 5)
5
:: Weather Conditions
AM - Wind was light/moderate, cloud cover was around the tops, but coming and going.
PM - Wind strengthened, but the SW/W direction did not affect the skiing, cloud broke up a bit more, with some clear spells.
:: Snow Conditions & Info
'POW' - der Day!!!!!
The legend that is Glencoe continues!
Where to start?
Significant snow had fallen over night on Sunday as forecast and provided the mountain with a fresh feel from the snow line at 650m up to the summit.
Although it was the start of the half-term break, the car park was only 1/3 full at 9am, when I went up the hill.
There was about 5cm of POW on the plateau runs (Green) which was great first thing and got me thinking about what lay waiting above.
The mid mountain was loaded, with 10/15cm in the Wall (Red) and Canyon (Red), and about 5/10cm on the run down Old Mugs (Green). Being up early meant that I was skiing fresh lines on the Wall/Canyon all morning.
The POW was super dry and moved really well under your skis giving 'Hero-Snow' conditions, helping the skis on every turn.
Main Basin (Blue) and Happy Valley (Blue) had about 10cm of POW in them. The Pisten Bully had been out earlier, but more wind-blown POW had landed on top of the already fresh/soft pisted base layer. The skiing here was epic! Everyone was skiing like heros on this snow.
Then after that warm-up, it was time to head out East to look at the Spring-Run (Red). Nobody appeared to be going out East, so by 11am I was still one of the first to ski the Spring Run. It was immense! 10/15cm of POW in there. Every turn was Hero skiing - steep POW in Glencoe does not get any better.
After lunch, the car park was about 3/4 full, but the hill still did not feel too busy. I was still playing around on the various Red Runs, every run still had fresh snow if you looked for it.
Then after a busy morning the Ski Patrol got round to checking-out the Flypaper (Black). It opened in the early afternoon around 2pm and people started to nervously glance over at it as they dropped the Spring Run. I joined a group of skiers who were the first to go down it. Again there was about 10/15cm of POW in it. The previous icy snow was now totally covered with fresh dry grippy snow, that helped your skis to stay stuck to the Flypaper with every turn.
After dropping the Flypaper a couple of times, a few of us headed out to the East Ridge to ski the gullies - again loaded with 10/15cm of fresh dry grippy POW.
All in, my best day out skiing in Scotland this year, so far!
:: Riders
JMAC
Report Edited 9 times. Last edited by JMAC: 2015-02-16 22:27:43
This report was posted by JMAC at 20.56hrs on Mon 16th Feb 15
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