Ben Lawers
From car park, skis on after about 200m, followed ridge towards Beinn Ghlas, but then decided to detour back down into Coire Chonnaidh as we could see lots of ski tracks and a couple of skiers heading up. Up the Coire, then back down to the saddle before Ben Lawers. Up Ben Lawers by the north slope, which was in reasonable condition over a hard base, though some patches exposed and a bit scary to traverse. Ski down was good, though intimidating being such a large open slope and about 30deg. I fluffed half the turns, which I blame on the wax being to sticky and Hammerhead binding in the wrong setting (ok, it was my crap technique).
Back down Coire Chonnaidh was superb, snow excellent turns good (and better set up and more confident). We carried on well down then cut across the shoulder back to the start. Heavy snow lower down, then a toboggan run down a burn line, pisted by all the skiers.
About 800m elevation, probably climb 1000m in all, and stiff calves to prove it!
A surprise was how many skier out on the hill, about 1: 4 skiers to walkers perhaps. Mostly on Alpine touring kit, a few taking in the gully from the south of Beinn Ghlas, which joins into Coire Chonnaidh. Even one set of tracks off the top of Ben Lawers south gully. On the way up Ben Lawers, one guy passed with a video camera on top of a ski pole sticking out of his rucksack. (hope he posts on youtube). Another couple unfortunately had to be lifted off by helicopter, one had broken an ankle in the heather at the bottom of the hill.

Sunshine all day, fantastic views, unbeatable Scottish ski-touring.

Very good

Mark & Martin

laburnumho at supanet dot com

Up to 950m from the car park at Ben Lawers, then skied the West face of Coire Odhar, then did the same again.

Blue sky, sun , no wind.

Perfect conditions. Skinned from the fence across the path.

Jock, and Jess

jocksouter at gmail dot com

Beinn Ghlas. Parked at 350m, short walk to snow line, skinned up Coire a Chonnaidh to about 1000m, skied main coire and then back up to take in the east shoulder.

Broken cloud, light wind, FL 400m.

Acres of finest quality windblown powder, especially on west facing lee slopes. Fantastic.

Iain and Ginny

iain dot low at virgin dot net

Tullymurdoch farm to Hill of Three Cairns and Knockton. West to edge of woods and then South via Drumderg wind farm to road to return to start.

Wind NE gusts 30-40mph. -1C?. Overcast.

Deep drifts in sheltered areas. Sun crust on top of some areas.

Steelytail & hustler

Glendevon - up Eastplace burn along past the windfarm and back down Westplace burn where a couple of great downhill runs were enjoyed on packed powder

Freezing at all levels. WILD on hillside....... !

Powder, packed powder and more powder on top of bottomless heather and bracken. High winds have moved most of the snow to west facing slopes. deep powder right through the woods

Ski's on and off at the car

Steve Martin / Al Todd

alistairtodd at tiscali dot co dot uk