Glenshee ski centre - Most runs east of the the centre.

**ski area closed for season**

Fine at lunch time. Turning to blizzards later on before calming again.

Nice fast spring granular snow with the odd pocket of fresh. Incredible for the time of year.

Cammy and twa dugs

Fafernie, via Cairn An Tuirc (missing top) and Tolmount. 22k and 1100m climb.

Mixed, some threatening dark clouds, but good vis. Windy.

Snow about 300m from road. Some heather hopping, about 20 mins total. Soft and mainly firm. A good thickness especially on top.
A good long (for me) tour.

Mark & Brian ESTC

telemarkmark at ovi dot com

The Aging Freeride Team were allowed out for a special birthday outing and used an unticked Munro as the excuse to head to Lochnagar. Having broken all the rules about ignoring Munros when skiing, we joined the queue for Blackspout, and immediately doubled the average age of the gully participants for that day. Left branch was reluctantly followed (right was a bit rocky in the middle: immense thanks to young guys ahead for pointing out the entry) with a bit of embarrassingly poor sideslipping (by me). Nice ski down to the loch and then skinned out. Heather hopped through the snow patches and stream beds back to about 500m.

Windy on top with threatening clouds which came to nothing. Balmy in the coire.

Skis on not far from marked memorial below Meikle Pap and could ski to the top (ahem, if you took the indirect route via Carn a' Choire Bhoidheach and a little bit of rockhopping). A week earlier would have made all the difference.

Lovely spring snow with great cover in the gully and throughout the coire.

Aging Freeride Team

alistairkewing at yahoo dot co dot uk

Tom Buidhe from Glenshee. From footbridge near road 2kms north of ski centre carried skis to 600 metres and then skinned up hard pack neve just east of Sron na Gaoithe. Walked up the flat ridge to more snow around the rim of Garbh-choire and another walk to the lower slopes of Cairn of Claise. C of C was patchy so contoured around to the east on great snow all the way to Tom Buidhe. Great views in every direction. Good run down from Tom Buidhe and followed our tracks back. The final run down the previously hard packed neve of Sron na Gaoithe was now on soft spring snow - a great end to the day.

Sunny and warm. Didn't need gloves.

Intermittent cover lower down but great snow east of Cairn of Claise

Roger and Fiona Wild

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Wheen Farm, Glen Clova to Ben Tirran.
Descent down the burn line.

Sun starting to set when we set off. Intermittent snow.

Softening of snow on surface. Pockets of drifted fresh on lee slopes. Light breakable crust on descent.

hustler and steelytail

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