Scotland?

baillie353 wrote:One more little question (Instead of making a whole new thread for it)

Equipment hire at Glencoe - Can one hire this equipment at the Glencoe Ski Center or must you stop at a place before the mountain?

Possibly heading up to Glencoe tomorrow as today sounds promising for them, so hopefully keeps the weather going!
Thanks!

You (and I) are definitely missing out today, things are just starting to clear up at Nevis Range with 4 inches of fresh last night.

From MWIS for the Western Highlands tomorrow...

Southerly 40 to locally 50mph, gusts 60 to 80mph; generally the strongest winds will be on higher western summits and major ridges.

Gales will make walking/skiing markedly more difficult with increasing height, and mobility very difficult on higher areas. Severe wind chill

A little snow (maybe) but mostly rain...

Heavy rain

Rain will fall more or less constantly all day, most patchy north of Glen Spean. Snow melt will lead to rapid rise of burns and rivers.

I wouldn't waste my time, there is no forecast that suggests it might be good.

Deary, deary me.. Life sucks!

I checked out Glenshee for a little hope - but they too according to MWIS have the same precdiciment as the rest (they say the entire of the mountains will be the same)
Can that be possible?
Regardless; if it even were to be decent weather.. Would they be open tomorrow (bank holiay Monday)?

Anybody know anyone going tomorrow?
I feel i'm about to cry.. :-(

baillie353 wrote:Deary, deary me.. Life sucks!

I checked out Glenshee for a little hope - but they too according to MWIS have the same precdiciment as the rest (they say the entire of the mountains will be the same)
Can that be possible?
Regardless; if it even were to be decent weather.. Would they be open tomorrow (bank holiay Monday)?

Anybody know anyone going tomorrow?
I feel i'm about to cry.. :-(

I wouldn't waste my money or my time going tomorrow. They would be open but the winds, if they come as forecast, will probably shut uplift.

Reports coming in that today was the best day of the season at Nevis and a guy backflipped in to Easy Gully.

Marked here.

just to follow up on my moaning abotu scotland being so good and italy not-we have had about 50cms of fresh in the last 24hrs and it hasnt stopped yet!!
tomorrow will be epic as was chest deep in the steep today!

rossyhead wrote:-we have had about 50cms of fresh in the last 24hrs and it hasnt stopped yet!!
tomorrow will be epic as was chest deep in the steep today!

Keep making posts like that and I will fly to Italy instead of Switzerland :P

semw posted this photo of Friday on Winterhighland

http://www.winterhighland.info/forum/file.php?2,file=6410

I'm endlessly looking for the forecast to change..

I've established that Glencoe will have high winds and rain, but yet their snow coverage is excellent and they're expected to open every lift - how does that work?

Glenshee's weather seems OK - but their snow coverage is horrid after looking at their webcam;
http://www.webcam-ski.com/webcams/interfaces/glenshee/interface.php?pk_interface=278&m=images&r=panoramique#depart
and not many lifts are open..

Do I;
A: Go to Glencoe and hope it doesn't rain
B: Go to Glenshee and hope the webcam is showing a wrong image (wishful thinking..)
C: Not go at all



Option C seems the most obvious, but I guess i'm looking for someone to say "I'll flick the good weather switch and all will be well"

Glenshee's skiing is usually by the fences anyway, cover looks good to me + you can't see Glas Maol from the webcam, it is my understanding that the links are still in place. The weather is still going to be terrible and you will spend twice the amount of time driving there as it would take to Glencoe.

It is possible that the lifts at Glencoe are sheltered by the wind coming from a certain direction.

By all means go but prepare for it to be miserable.