Three laps of the Haute Route first anticlockwise via Highland Fling, 2nd Clockwise via Timberline, SnowGoose, Highland Fling and Rollercoaster third anticlockwise via Herringbone Hill

Snow showers, -1C in the carpark

About 1inch of fresh over a hard and icy base

Me and HNSC on my third circuit

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Car park to Carpark double circuit. Haute Route anticlockwise via Normans way and Herringbone Hill, then reversed it and went clockwise but came back via Highland Fling

Started off sunny ended in drizzle, with mizzle in between. +4C first thing, +6C when I left

Hard fast and icy first thing - great conditions, just soft enough to get a track ski edge in which made thew downhill fun, but controlable. Softened and slowed by late afternoon, but still good. All main trails still complete but some thin sections.

Me

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Houte Route via Herringbone hill, back via Short Cut. Went up and down Herringbone Hill a few times as the slow conditions nad the pisting made the downhill on track skis doable

Damp - sleet at carpark level, snowing on the higher trails, temp 1.5C at the car park

Slow, sticky and soft, but nicely pisted with two sets of tracks cut on main trails via Highland Fling and Herringbone hill and Norman's Way just packed with the Skidoo (thanks Pete). Trails complete, but entrance getting thin.

Dave, Rory and Phil

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Haute Route via Highland Fling

Cold (+2C at carpark) with showers of sleet at carpark, snow on the higher trails

Hard and icy on the lower trails which softened, upper trails had a thinlayer of new snow

Dave H., Phil and Rory

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Short Cut trail, Haute Route, Timberline snowfield, Snowgoose, Haute Route, Short Cut trail.

Temp minus 3C at 11.30am at Car Park at 360m. Probably colder in valley!
Fresh SW'ly wind causing slight drifting on exposed areas. No precipitation.

From conditions observed it is reasonable to say all trails complete. Most have not been skied recently, but snow was compacting well under tramlines. Snow conditions: slow but slidey powder. Depth 0.5-0.6m on trails, 0.6-0.7m on Timberline snowfield. Area seems to have been too far west to catch the past two days' snowfalls, hence only modest increase in depth, but who's complaining! Open hill uniformly white -- should make for superb touring if and when it stabilises and consolidates further. See "Clashindarroch conditions 2010-2011" thread re road and car park.

Timberline.