Lightning Hill and across the tops to Wether Law. 10 miles south west of Hawick.
Used yesterdays tracks to take some of the sting out of the initial climb then over the top towards Wether law. Then 250m descent of SW shoulder back to valley and along farm track back to car

Cold and windy on the summits but sunny and small clouds scudding across the sky. Pictures are a bit misleading as some of the gusts were ready to knock you over!

Windcrust and perfect powder depending on the aspect.
Bit warmer in the Borders today with temps in Hawick in plus figures for the first time in days. Still cold higher up and the snow still in excellent condition.

Linzi and Pete

pete dot coulson at calvert-kielder dot com

Glentress forest. Bottom car park up to Buzzards Nest via combination of walkers & bike trails and then up through free ride area and along the forestry road to the east completing a circular route back down via the ponds.

Forestry roads had been snowploughed... a bit over zealously in parts removing all the snow and some of the road surface.

Nice day. Cold, generally sunny with occassional snow flurries. -6 all day in car park. No wind.

At least a foot in the bottom, nearer two feet at 400m. Cold powdery snow. A couple of groups of bikers out but confined to the ploughed forestry roads, just too deep elsewhere.

Rob.

Lightning Hill. Just off the A7 about 10 miles SW of Hawick near Mosspaul Summit.

Claggy cloud in and out all day. Some periods of sun but not many. Not many photos since vis not great and intense cold meant the camera gave up the ghost

Deep unconsolidated snow in the valley floors and on southerly facing sheltered slopes. On easterly exposed areas there is a bit more windcrust. Breaking trail even on skis is hard work at the moment.
Fantastic couple of descents of 200m+ powder snow.

Linzi and Pete

pete dot coulson at calvert-kielder dot com

Fantastic day out from Flotterstone again.

Skinned up to Turnhouse hill and then dropped off the back into the most amazing bottomless powder all the way down to Logan House. A short wander along (if you are on a board like me) or pole if on skis and then up the track back to Edinburgh.

Contoured round Capelaw Hill and then headed up Castlelaw hill. Dropped down to the west of the range on great snow but really flat light. And then a final deep powder run to the reservoir.

Beer and food in the pub! They must be loving this, their carpark and the public ones were rammed.

Started off with light snow and high cloud. Cleared to bright sun and blue skies.
Last hour though the next snow showers started coming in and the light got a bit flat.

Mostly deep powder. Thinner on the summits and some harder (but not icy!) bits here and there as well.

Can ski from the car park no problem.

Mike (split board), Fiona (planks)

mike at prog99 dot com

Pentlands : Sunset ascent/descent of easternmost top of Turnhouse Hill (first peak of the Pentland main ridge) from Flotterstone car park, ascending close to the normal walking route to col just west of the top. Descending lovely broad bowl from col then traverse to gates on the ridge, and following the path back.

Cloudless sky, ascent mostly sheltered from cold north breeze, -4C valley level, probably nearer -10C? on top

Mixed. In valley lovely powder; higher up the ridge, on the col and the top harder snow and small sastruggi, where wind has caught exposed slopes. In the bowl, loads of snow but more difficult than it looked because of rapid alternation between harder snow and slightly heavy powder. But amazing skiing for the Pentlands!
Note : it looks possible to ski up and down practically all the Pentland peaks at the moment. From Turnhouse Hill it also looked possible to tour along the main (i.e. south) ridge, but expect to find rocks and bare-ish patches where the wind has blown off ... until the next dunk that is!

Donald

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