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 Home Road, best snow on the mountain a ribbon of perfect soft snow corduroy to the Daylodge Poma.
|  East Wall no 1 Gully in good shape with firm but grippy snow. Good riders and edges, a fall will be a slide to the Ciste Gully!
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 Wide and deep cover in the lower part of the Ciste Gully. If determined you can get within 5mins hoof of the Carpark!
|  Terrain Park from the Ptarmigan Tow late in the afternoon.
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 Rails in the upper half of the Ptarmigan Terrain Park.
|  An overview of today's Run Status!
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 White Lady in fantastic shape and much improved surface conditions from Tuesday, still firm, but grippy, nice turns now.
|  Looking back along the final run out to the Ciste Carpark and Shuttle Bus stop from the Aonach Ridge.
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A bluebird Friday for the last mid-week day of the half term period. Having expected surface conditions to continue to get harder through the week, a bit of a pleasant surprise on Friday to find that though colder than early in the week, a combination of extensive pisting, colder but less dry air and continuing settled weather mean surface conditions have actually come back to us a bit.
Chicken Gully was excellent fun all day on Friday, grippy and immaculately groomed, still firm enough that it didn't cut up so from first to last you could layout some nice turns on it. The contrast from Tuesday when it was the definition of boiler plate was stark.
What's more it was just a small version of the White Lady which was similar, transformed from an inclined ice rink early in the week to wide, firm, grippy but fantastically groomed blast that you could layout some big turns on. More surprisingly still was the Home Road which was the best snow on the hill and meant lapping the Lady via the Daylodge and West Wall Pomas was a real goer. With firm underski conditions putting people off the WWP that might be a way to beat any queues at the M1 Sat.
The East Wall No1 Gully good for advanced riders, Ciste Gully fairly decent but not as nice as No 1 as it's in the shade almost all day.
Top Basin will be fine in the morning, but heavy traffic will see some scrapped and icy patches develop. With the snow guns running the Sheiling area had a nice softer layer Fri and might be nicer for snowplough turners.
Coire Cas is hardpacked and quite icy, though the lower Gunbarrel had some nice loose snow. From the top a good cruise today was the Traverse, top half 105, short bit of the mid Cas, then down Chicken Gully and back to the lower Gunbarrel.
Sharp edges will mean more enjoyment for more of the day over more of the mountain! Races on the White Lady Sat and Freestyle Comp in the Ptarmigan Terrain Park.
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