Flattering to deceive
30th January 2015
The snow cover at 270m. Aberarder Farmhouse in the centre of the shot.
Poor light for most of the day. The weather, of course, flattering to deceive.
Sheltered lee areas have deep accumulations of new snow at higher altitudes.
My Creag Meagaidh ‘glade skiing’ fantasy……..
……..abruptly terminated.
One day I’ll do it, it’s just a matter of time. I have this fantasy that I’ll be able to ski the trees somewhere on our patch at Creag Meagaidh…at least once. (Properly ski them, not just a couple of desperate turns to avoid tree roots and boulders). Almost managed it in the winter of 2009/10 but the snowpack had full ‘trouser-filling’ potential so had to pass on it.
However, there is an area of birch woodland in Coire Chrannaig which showed promise today, or so I thought….Open tree cover from 500m down to 350m over half a kilometre (not much vertical but good enough for Scotland) + pretty good new snow cover = game on, surely?
Sadly not.
Deep, wet porridge with a soft crust beneath 10cms of fresh stuff does-not-a-good-ski-descent-make. Flattering to deceive again.
(I fully expect to be inundated with messages claiming successful glade skiing at Creag Meagaidh. Your claims will be no good without photographic evidence!)
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Callum Horne
30th January 2015 7:25 pm
Don’t worry I was struggling with dense plantation skiing on the north side of Ben More today…even high up struggling with the windslab….. I was doing so well at Glenshee!
Grant Duff
31st January 2015 10:16 am
Really enjoyed reading your thoughts today. Cheers