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Early June seems like a good time to be starting the thread this year. It is likely that the heavy snows of winter are behind us, and from now on it'll probably be ephemeral summer snows that get the pulse quickening... Winter 2011-2012 was a very mixed bag. Heavy snow fell in early December, and some big Atlantic storms deposited very large amounts of snow on NE facing aspects. In early 2012 I was very optimistic that this year was lining up to be a vintage one. How wrong could I be?! Notwithstanding a few large deposits in January, the rest of the winter was a huge disappointment. Hardly any meaningful snow fell in February, and March (the warmest in the UK since 1957, and a temperature of 23.6C at Aboyne in Aberdeenshire) all but ended my hopes of having any survivals of snow patches in Scotland past the end of September. However, April and May witnessed some very large deposits across the north east of Scotland. The extraordinary amounts that fell during the first two weeks of May allowed Cairn Gorm to re-open lift operated skiing, and to provide it right up until late May, when a savage thaw occurred during the very hot spell we had for a week. The last snow in England vanished on the 18th May (located on Helvellyn, here). This wreath, present since December 2011, almost chalked up 6 calendar months. It consistently is the longest-lying patch in England, and is outlasted only sometimes by the other well known patch on the north side of Cross Fell, Pennines. As in 2010, snow persisted into May on the Peak District. However, this was a relic of April's snow. On Wales, Carnedd Llewelyn held the last snow. This, however, was a remnant of 3-4 April's snow and not the snow from earlier in the winter. This finally vanished around the 19th May. Thankfully, the beginning of June has seen a couple of days of sub-zero temperatures on the highest hills of Scotland, and fresh snow has been reported below 3000 feet on the 2nd June. Some big wreaths remain on the usual suspect hills, and if proof were needed of the depth of snow then Gary Hodgson's photograph (http://www.tarmachan.blogspot.co.uk/) from 1st June on Ben Nevis (at the Garadh) shows how much can be found if one is prepared to hoof up into the north east face! I'll update this thread from time to time, but please feel free to contribute to this and the 'main' thread on Winterhighland: http://www.winterhighland.info/forum/read.php?2,143591