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Limited beginner terrain on offer at the 3 Eastern areas, mainly on machine made snow. The Glencoe sledge park is open for family fun in the West. Little change until after New Year as high pressure expected to remain in control.

Inversion conditions under a strong high pressure mean the summits are above freezing, while some sheltered glens have dropped to just shy of -10°c overnight the past 2 nights.

Boxing Day saw the Lecht kick off their season with limited novice terrain on the Robin beginner run, served by the Wren Magic Carpet. Snow making with the snow factory continues to widen out the run and improve the base.

Elsewhere in the East we are as we were on Christmas Eve, with lift served snowsports restricted to limited novice terrain at both CairnGorm and Glenshee, again on machine made snow except for the Polar Express Trainer Tow adjacent to the Top Station on CairnGorm.

Passes for the Daylodge level magic carpet can be bought for 3 hour AM or PM sessions or a flood light early evening session (3.30pm to 5pm). Day tickets are available, valid on the available uplift from first lift to last. There are some terrain park features out on the Ptarmigan Traverse and a couple of novice features by the lower beginner magic carpet. The Funicular last train up is 3.30pm and last train down at 4.30pm. There is no skiable terrain from the funicular at this time, just access to the Polar Express and snow patches on the Ptarmigan Traverse.

Glenshee kicked off their 2026 winter season last Saturday with the Dink Dink and beginner rope tow operating. These have a good base of machine made snow. During the holidays pre-booking lift tickets is advisable due to limited slope capacity at present.

At Glencoe, the Sledge Park opened for the season on Saturday and is now open daily wind permitting. From Boxing Day first chair up at 9am, last chair up at 3.45pm and last chair down at 4pm. White Corries Cafe at the base is open 8am to 4.30pm at present.

The Nevis Range Gondola is also presently open daily (wind permitting) with the last gondola up at 3.45pm and last down at 4pm.

:: England Club Fields

The three Pennine Clubfields all enjoyed a November start to their season, with Allenheads and Weardale notching up the first lift served UK snow turns of the season. There has not yet been sufficient snow at Raise in the Lake District and all clubfields are currently waiting for new snow.

For both Weardale and Allenheads, you need to join the club with a season pass, these are still available for both at this time.

Please check club access rules / availability if not a club member / pass holder.

Weardale: https: //skiweardale.com/ .
Allenheads: http://ski-allenheads.co.uk/ .
Yad Moss: https: //yadmoss.co.uk/ .
Raise: https: //www.ldscsnowski.co.uk/ .

:: Mountain Weather

At 7pm in the West at the Glencoe SSC hut at 850m the mid mountain temperature was +0.7°c, the wind at a mean of 4 gusting 8mph. At Base level it was -0.9°c .

The SAIS summit AWS on Aonach Mor was reporting +0.7°c. The Met Office station was reporting a SE wind at 6 gusting 13mph. It was +2.9°c at 680m at the CIC Hut. At Tulloch Station (237m) the temperature was +7.6°c.

In the East the CairnGorm the Met Office Summit AWS reported -0.7°c with a Southerly at a mean of 11 gusting 19mph. Aviemore was at +2.6°c at 8pm.

The Met Office Cairnwell AWS (3061ft /934m) reported +0.6°c with a SSE wind at a mean of 15 gusting 22mph.

:: Mountain Forecast Discussion

Boxing Day, saw plenty of winter sunshine at the Lecht, CairnGorm, Glencoe and Nevis, but at Glenshee if you were on the nursery slopes you were under a thick layer of hill fog, which those who took a ride up the Cairnwell Chairlift rose above to a spectacular view! It could also be seen from the Cairngorm Plateau that the glens of the Southern Cairngorms were choked with low cloud, while it was clear to the North and West.

With high pressure in complete control of our weather at present, it is largely going to be a repeat on Saturday. Inversion mist is likely to reform tonight where it lifted today, so there is some doubt about the extent of sun and clear visibility at lower levels for the next few days. The further West one is from the East Coast the lower the risk of persistent inversion layer fog hanging about.

At Munro Level it maybe around 0 to +2°c where inversion cloud lifts up the hills, but above this expect up to +5°c. Moderate Easterly to ENE wind.

Despite summit terrain likely to stay in positive temperatures, the dry air will keep remaining patches of older snow frozen unless in direct sunshine, where there may be some temporary surface softening.

The balance of numerical weather model output favours high pressure remaining in control of the weather throughout the festive period, day to day detail and mountain temperatures will depend on exact placement of the high and source of air moving around it. Cooler summit temperatures are likely by the turn of year, but it does look likely to stay more or less dry through till at least the early days of 2026.

High pressure can often stay around longer than initially anticipated by the forecast models when a blocking pattern develops, so by no means certain that this high will shift very far by early January!

:: Webcams and Weather Stations

Lowther Hill: Leadhills webcam is online (24/7).

GLENCOE: All mountain webcams online and the first updated images will be around 8.15am. The mid mountain weather station wind vane failed due to nearby lightning. Windspeed and other parameters are OK.