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Southern Uplands - Sun 10th Jan 2010
Posted by: Guest at 09.55hrs on Tue 12th Jan 10
:: Tour Route(s) or Location Skied/Ridden
A walk up and board down Craigengower near Straiton in Ayrshire on the edge of the Galloway Hills.
:: Weather Conditions-6C at 0830 and very windy on the summit.
:: Snow Conditions and DistrubtionGood deep coverage,a little crusty in places but with large pockets of drifted powder. Nice enough to do four runs.
:: Skiers/RidersPaul T
Southern Uplands - Sun 10th Jan 2010
Posted by: mjdrooper at 21.34hrs on Mon 11th Jan 10
:: Tour Route(s) or Location Skied/Ridden
Capelaw Hill (Pentlands) from Bonaly
:: Weather ConditionsWalked up from Bonaly Scout Camp, then waded up to summit through powder snow - a couple of ace runs (skinned back up) and a memorable run back down to Bonaly Sunny - very windy on top
:: Snow Conditions and Distrubtion3ft of powder on west facing slopes
:: Skiers/RidersMJ, Dizzy
Southern Uplands - Sun 10th Jan 2010
Posted by: WelshWizard at 10.35hrs on Mon 11th Jan 10
• View Photos •:: Tour Route(s) or Location Skied/Ridden Hillend - Caerketton Hill - Allermuir Hill - Swanston - bus stop back into town, via some wind blown powder stashes. Quite annoying where people have dug out their drives including the pavement to expose the tarmac!
:: Weather ConditionsI'll let the photo do the talking. Quite windy though.
:: Snow Conditions and DistrubtionMore Pentland Powder
:: Skiers/RidersGwyd
:: E-Mail Contactgwydion_ball at yahoo dot com
Southern Uplands - Sat 9th Jan 2010
Posted by: WelshWizard at 10.21hrs on Mon 11th Jan 10
• View Photos •:: Tour Route(s) or Location Skied/Ridden Tinto Hill. Skinned up via main path. Descent of W ridge then onto S face on a SSW facing aspect, E of the S burn line from the bealach between Tinto and Lochlyock Hill had been catching the sun and had a powdery spring feel to it nice base with no crust, just beautiful, so we did it again! Then back up the W ridge and a ski back down on the W aspects of the NE ridge (main path which is well beaten for those without touring gear) was much nicer than expected. Fantastic day with, for the main part, bright blue sky.
:: Weather ConditionsFor the main part, bright blue sky. At car -6 at 1000 and -10 at 1600!
:: Snow Conditions and DistrubtionA bit wind affected, some nice powder on S aspects.
:: Skiers/RidersGwyd, Guy, Avril and Ken
:: E-Mail Contactgwydion_ball at yahoo dot com
Southern Uplands - Sat 9th Jan 2010
Posted by: Northo at 22.28hrs on Sun 10th Jan 10
• View Photos •:: Tour Route(s) or Location Skied/Ridden East Cairn Hill - Western Pentlands near Livingston
:: Weather ConditionsCloudy and snowing to start, but brightened up as soon as we reached the summit. Beautiful. No wind, and sunny.
:: Snow Conditions and DistrubtionDeep unconsolidated powder (thigh deep in places) made for tough trail breaking, particularly on tiny snowshoes (Verts). Plenty of windslab on west facing slopes, and got a shear in our snow pit with some effort. Will no doubt be far more unstable after today's thaw. South facing slopes had lovely powder.
:: Skiers/RidersEd Legge / Gavin Miller
:: E-Mail Contacthypercars at gmail dot com
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