Excellent Cover

3

Heavy snowfall all day with very poor visibility. Windy at times but not too strong. Snow down to Loch Morlich.

The cover was excellent on all open runs and improved throughout the day with around 30cm falling. Under-ski, the snow was quite slow and wet. In the morning you could get thrown about quite a bit when you skied across hard pisted snow onto areas of soft fresh snow. This wouldn't have been such an issue if you could see where you were going. Fiacaill Traverse onto Jean's Bowl was the best I have ever skied it. Incredible snow cover in the bowl with the bouldery and heathery patch towards the Fiacaill poma filled in by the end of the day. Few were skiing it as you had to know your way, keeping high and traversing to where the old Fiacaill T-bar ran to before dropping down to Jean's bowl. White lady and M1 were good with the best, drier snow higher up. Ciste t-bar came on after lunch and there was lovely powder in the Ciste bowl if you trusted your skiing in the poor visibility. They were working on de-icing and pisting the uptrack for the WWP, but this never came on. Car Park T-bar, Cas t-bar, M1 poma and eventually the Ciste t-bar were open for uplift. Runs open were Cas, M1, White Lady, 105, gunbarrel, zigzags, fiacaill travers, lower slopes and ciste fairway (M2 and over yonder were ready to go but no West Wall Poma).

Gordie Bryce & Torin Moffat

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Most Terrain has Good Cover.

4

Started off with poor visibility and got steadily worse. By the end of play there were only a few folks left with radar or echo location required to navigate the terrain!!

Good cover up top. Goose had great cover. The new snow improved cover on lower slopes as day progresses with the gravel entry to the quad chair gone by end of play. Nevis were trying to get summit button on for some time, but it has issues that were not resolved. I don't think too many folks cared though with the poor visibility! Goose was the pick nice snow esp first couple of runs where freshies could be had. God a bit chopped up later and challenging taking on the chop in the very poor visibility later. Skiiers left of quad chair improved through the day, skiiers left off goose pretty good too. Yockies was OK lumpy up top. rabbit run was better route back. Quiet, no question got my money's worth despite the Vis!

Nigel

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Most Terrain has Good Cover.

4

flat light, snowing and poor vis making it very challenging to ski

lots of fresh white stuff, on top of a "firm/icy" base. Mostly good snow occasional icy patch, very poor vis made it really hard to ski with lots of people falling..."oof wahhh ah I'm an abominable snowman" "dad I'm cold can I go and get some chips in the cafe cos it's so cold"

skicadets

Most Terrain has Good Cover.

3

Low cloud, snow falling all day so poor vis. Temp hovered between minus and freezing at car park. Wind started N/NE and ended up NW by afternoon.

Heaps of fresh powder on top of lumpy base which with the poor vis made for interesting skiing! Unpisted also (maybe too wet/loose to be pisted) which gave variable riding especially on gradients. Shin deep powder on eagle 2 was superb though and your tracks were covered with fresh every run so that provided the days entertainment and sair but happy legs

Skicadets

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