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Snow Report 7th February 2010

After yesterday’s rather slow, damp snow, it was a degree colder today (plus 1 degree), which made all the difference, making the tramlines smooth and fast, and giving the off-piste just the zing it needed. Timberline is amazing. There’s a 2 metre high drift all along the top edge of the forest, with spectacular snow “dunes” reaching up 4 – 5 metres into the trees at one point (see photo attached). Val doesn’t mind if this ends up on a website.

Oh, and there are bears at the Clash — see other photo! I have not asked their permission to publish…

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Results of Club Survey

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If you were good enough to fill in one of the survey forms at the end of last year, here are the results, collated by Peter Thorn

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SnowsportGB In Administration

Just in time for the winter Olympics…

Snowsport GB has officially gone into administration:
http://www.snowsportgb.com/news/2010/02/British-Ski-and-Snowboard-Federation-%28trading-as-SnowsportGB%29-in-Administration
This will not affect the British skiers at the Vancouver Olympics as the British Olympic Association had placed a contingency plan in place. See their fuller statement at:
http://vancouver2010.teamgb.com/news/statement-4154.aspx

Trail Maintenance Team Hits The Clash

It’s worth taking a moment to thank the people who spend time maintaining the trails in the Clash. It mostly goes unobserved, we just assume the forest grows in a handy way for us to ski around. Forest Enterprise has recently done a lot of work to cut back the trees on short cut which was getting a bit narrow. Here are some photos of club members Dave Horsley and Colin Miller sorting out some of the fallen trees yesterday. Guys thanks for the work!

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Finns have no skis!

Reports from a contact in Finland have reached us that you can’t buy a pair of skis in Finland at the moment – maybe that’s an exaggeration. Apparently last year’s warm winter lead the ski importers it under order for this year. It’s been a snowy winter there too, so skis have sold out  –  Finns are now having to look abroad for their skis!

Full Moon Stomp Photos January 2010

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Just to prove there are a few hard core skiers in the club here are the photos from this month’s Full Moon Stomp, which was held at the Bin Forest. I’m afraid I wimped out when I saw the snow that evening…

Dave says there were some excellent conditions, but the trip back to Udny was a bit nerve wracking.

Here are some comments from Ian

3 participants – Dave Horsley, Ken (Thompson) and Ian Cooper. Due to dodgy road conditions on the Cabrach Road the 3 skiers departed Huntly for the local ‘Bin’ forest for a very pleasant 2 hour ski around the un-groomed trails.
The wind, which had been blowing quite hard all Saturday abated and the forest was left in a state of peaceful tranquility under 2010s first and brightest ‘Perigee’ full moon – Perigee being the moon’s orbit when it is closest to the Earth and thus appears bright and large in the sky.  The skiers were extremely lucky as the clouds cleared away leaving a beautiful moonlit landscape.