Scottish-Irish Skier

Well, the folks in Auchleven / Premnay were out in force clearing cul-de-sacs thegither the other day, which was great to see. The farmer does our lanes with his monster ass plough as per previous ScotGov/Council arrangements. I only have one elderly neighbour. Auld Doric speaking retired farmer guy who must be coming on 80. He has a sporty 3+ litre 4 x 4 BMW saloon with full winters oan. Car eats the snaw fir breakfast. When we had a local lady stuck up the lane in the worst of it, got her out and away nae bother. ---- Anyhoo, had some no bad skiing the day at Glenshee. Wind limited the uplift and the cable snapped on sunnyside 1 poma which didn't help. Hardpack / ice with some new snaw oan top but either drifted or scoured. It has a decent solid base across the bulk of the area, but needs a proper winter storm to fill it up.

So it's arrived. Blizzard again oot.

This seems to be incoming. Heading in red dot (fort SIS) direction.

I'd be happy for it to move south overnight, leaving blue skies over the central highlands and the roads to the lecht / glenshee clear!

Nuff said about access roads overnight! Conditions could be very nice tomorrow, albeit it will be full Scottish balaclava weather at times.

Aye, don't mind if it's just the afternoon for a few hours - daughter has study to do anyway. Road conditions and how things look in the morning will determine things I guess. Will be busy come the weekend that's for sure.

So, thinking about some skiing tomorrow with min Miss SS who's on study leave. Lecht or Glenshee. The Lecht seems to have opened up more lifts beyond the wee beginners area, but still think Glenshee looks better in terms of open terrain. By tomorrow could be more. Both are getting mair snaw (not the poster that is). Anyone any very recent experience?

Dug walk photaes. I'm almost 6'2" fir scale. Dug is tiny. Thank heavens the farmer keeps going past with his muckle plough or we'd be going nowhere. Premnay tae Leslie road conditions: Insch tae Alford via Premnay:

This car was snaw clear at 7 pm yesterday. At least another 10 cm fell overnight. Sunrise over Bennachie in the distance. EDIT. I figured if I wanted loadsae snaw I should move tae near @Mair Snaw's hoose. Seems this has proven correct!

BBC did mention that 'sounds of thunder' might be heard. See the white in the middle of the deep red... The legendary THUNDERSNAW.

Look at that monster of a band coming south.

Ok, blizzard conditions have re-commenced at fort SIS. I suspect mini Miss SIS's bus winnae be coming the morn with another prelim cancelled! The Leslie-Premnay direct towards Inverurie joining north of Oyne back road was 2" of compacted snaw earlier. Only passable uphill with winters or 4 x 4. Going via Insch was like 60-70% black. But that was before the snaw returned.

Once it has passed over me, I can try blowing it a bit east towards @Mair Snaw.

Might as well join in. Tesco cancelled my shopping the day due the snaw. Just been tae Inverurie tae collect. Just in time it seems.

Brings back memories of the auld borders benchmark. Bench at the new hoose is in a partly covered area, so would not be reliable without calibration.

I guess the model thread is not the place tae go with snaw pics if that front is totally missing the sooth ae England? Couple of fresh cm's here yesterday evening / overnight. METO insisting it's gonnae snaw here fae 16:00 through tae Friday morning. We'll see.

Well this disnae look mild. Uppers struggling tae get out of the -5 to 0 C range, with increasing signs of return tae proper cauld just a week after this spell ends.

Is that a beer can chilling in the snaw? Kudos if so. Reminds me of the end of this classic vid of a Subaru Imprezza going up Mont St. Anne in Quebec. EDIT, seen yer latest photaes and those look suspiciously like winters oan the VW. Double kudos if so. Anyone going to Dalwhinnie in a blizzard should have winter rubber oan.

I'll take NW, N, NE, E and SE. All good at the new hoose it seems. Was surprised by the NW, but it seems the Moray Firth is a bit ae a snaw machine.

Well, wis snaw socks tae the rescue there. Local lady that does dug walking was stuck on the back road to our house. Lucky I had some snaw socks in the 4 x 4 that fit her transit wheels. She was well stuck. Seems to have not had enough pace to get up a rise, and slid back down into a dip at the side of the road that was all drifts. Could not go back or forwards. With a bit of rocking back and forth, got the socks on. With some digging, managed to reverse her van back out back on to the level. Then ease up on the clutch to get it rolling with the socks, touch on the accelerator to get the momentum, and wahey, up and over the rise, then largely doohill all the way to the main road! She's taken my socks and is buying me a new set. Job done.

Aligned for Glenshee sweetly. Chuckin it doon. Drifting too it seems, which is great for filling between the fences.

Can confirm light snaw has commenced here at Fort SIS. Ski centres all getting some from the cams now.

Whit! No way. Moment ae fame!

I'm hoping I get the call from the garage in Insch that my car MOT is done earlier rather than later the day! I thought it was all about the central belt today, but then that front is heading slowly but steadily in this direction. Fingers crossed it at least reaches Glenshee / the Lecht to give them a decent dumping.