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Glencoe // Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Dark Side in morning sun

Main Basin from top of ccess chair

Unusual view of the car park from the western edge of the Dark Side, before the plunge down. Looks deceptively easy in the photo, but try it in deep heavy porridge !

 
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Report
:: Snow Cover
Most Terrain has Good Cover.
:: Surface Conditions (out of 5)
3
:: Weather Conditions
Clear with sunny intervals at first, but clouded over at lunchtime. Then the wind got up and the fog descended. Driving snow at the top, driving rain in the car park by afternoon.
:: Snow Conditions & Info
Some very nice wind packed powder in the main basin (when you could see it) and the top of Dark Side. Most runs good cover except for Etive Glades which was unusually thin. The best snow wasn't always in the usual places. The eastern edge of the plateau and below was covered in little wind ridges. Not so easy to ski on in flat light or mist ! All car park runs easily skiable right to the bottom - no peaty patches or exposed rocks really, but the lower slopes degenerated from windblown powdery snow to heavy wet porridge as the temperature went up and the rain came on in the afternoon. Last run down was a bit more challenging that first car park run in the morning.
:: Riders
Maf
This report was posted by Maf at 15.19hrs on Thu 26th Feb 15


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