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CairnGorm Mountain // Monday 1st May 2006
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looking down fiacall corie cas at end of day

nice big snowfield on southeast flank of Carn lochan, into corie domhain (sorry about spelling!!)
made track down sunlit area

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Report
:: Tour Route(s) or Location Skied/Ridden
walked to middle station,
skinned up the M1 poma uptrack and on to summit of Cairngorm.
Tele'd off south face Cairngorm and across to coire raiebert. Then toured round into coire domhain?, and towards lochs on plateau on way to macdui. but poor viz developed, so turned back upto Cairn Lochan. Great ski back down into corie domhain, then raeibert afetrwards. skinned back to top fiacall ridge corrie cas, and skied down ridge to middle station
:: Weather Conditions
sunny spells, snow showers, low cloud. mixed.
waited for cloud to lift so we could see on descents. freezing level above summits.
:: Snow Conditions and Distrubtion
variable, from spring snow
spring snow with wet fresh on top - very sticky and annoying!, better off without skins at times as snow stuck to skins!
higher up much better consistency of snow.
plateau loaded with snow, more on east and south facing slopes, west facing more patchy.
could easily have skied to macdui and back on monday
:: Skiers/Riders
andrew and george and ( max, zara, rex - 3 lab X's)
This report was posted by telemarker at 15.49hrs on Wed 3rd May 06


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