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A glimpse over Coire Dubh, lots of snow on N to W aspects across the Grey Corries beyond.
Focus on the Quad Chair and Lower Goose area.
Wider view of Aonach Mor.
Wide cover across the summit and upper Goose area.
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A different perspective on Aonach Mor to the Facebook photos posted by Nevis Range earlier today which had either the upper hill in cloud or were for the most part taken looking down low level runs in the vicinity of the Gondola Station and in no way reflective of the actual snow cover on Aonach Mor.
The Upper Goose has huge cover, vastly wider than anything at Glencoe. The Summit runs are loaded, Sidewinder is complete, the Traverse from the Quad to Tower 4 is good, only a little work would fix the route under the Quad to the base of the Goose T-bar.
Yes there's some bare gravel behind the lift hut at the bottom of the T-bar, but the uptrack is there. The bare area a consequence of a thinner cover of snow melting out where the snow has to be kept level and reasonably shallow to keep the loading area at a suitable height - ie an area which would be managed daily had the lifts been open.
The Alpha uptrack is broken, but what of the Quad - how about an honest answer? There has been no effort at snow management whatsoever, the absolute bare minimum was done to ski a few days so they could tick a box.
It's not the weather this week, or indeed this winter, it's not the snow cover on Aonach Mor that is preventing Nevis Range from opening for snowsports presently, it is entirely down to the decisions and policies of the Nevis Range Development Company.