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 View from the summit of the Cairnwell Pass to Carn Aosda. The south facing aspect had the most snow, but took a battering on Saturday!
|  Looking back towards the ski area from the Northern approach, Home Run visible with areas of deep drifts and other bits scoured clear.
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 Top of Butcharts Coire having a south aspect, caught a lot of snow in the Northerlies, but the this area has taken a big hit in spells of wet / windy Southerlies.
|  Butchart's Access Poma now closed until cooler conditions and more snow arrives. Uptrack still just about there, so not much needed to get a route via Butcharts Coire.
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 Sunnyside looking a bit damp, but granular spring snow. Should cling onto a mostly full width base for the anticipated snowfall later in the week.
|  Looking up the Baddoch Chair, along with the Plastic Slope Poma, providing progression terrain from the nursery slopes.
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 Tiger has been slowly filling in, there is now a consolidated base on most of it and at least a partial base in the Thunder Bowl.
|  Alas a bit more water than would like in the Clunie Water this afternoon. High level snow Wed, then a spell of rain before snow level lowers Thursday.
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With big convective shower cells bringing snow in from the Moray Firth early January, the unfortunate reality is there was a lot more snow at lower elevations to the North and East of the Cairngorms, than reached through the mountain core to Glenshee.
Glenshee had the most snow stick on the Southern aspect of Carn Aosda / Butchart's Coire, but this area took a couple of big hits from mild Southerly winds and driving rain, so while a partial base remains, nothing currently connects up and the Butcharts Access Poma is closed again.
For more advanced riders the best turns were on the Cairnwell Race Tracks, with granular spring snow. For intermediates, Sunnyside does not look pretty, but in the milder temps was more granular spring like snow.
The best cover is on the roadside nursery areas served by the Dink Dink Poma and Rope Tow, plus progression terrain on the short blue run by the Plastic Slope Poma, thanks to earlier snow making.
After a damp and rather clagged in morning, things did clear up partially this afternoon, but Wednesday does not look a nice day for the lower slopes, with rain for much of the time. However as Thurday progresses the freezing level should come back down and with SE winds, Glenshee this time looks like it could be in the prime location for areas of snow moving in off the sea to merge into prolonged mountain snowfall.
Glenshee did not look particularly pretty on Tuesday afternoon, in glimpses between the clouds, but by the weekend things should be transformed and the key is, no part of the ski area is starting from scratch.
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