As my fellow course members arrived today at the Cas carpark they would't believe me when I told them that the sun would be out later as in Scotland the sun always shines at some stage during the day!!
We arrived at the top in a proper bo white out! Believe it or not this can do wonders for your skiing....as it is all in the feel... However we opted to move very rapidly from Ptarmigan to Cas as we thought it beneficial for course purposes to see something. The first couple of hours was interesting so to speak but as the morning went on..guess what appeared? The Sun indeed! In combination with the fresh snow dropped overnight and early morning the conditions were just brilliant and yes.... for you alpine friends...we had powder.. in fact we had powder two days in a row.
Duncan Freshwater, our coach, who is a kinda of a local couldn't believe however how much the conditions had changed since his childhood. What is in my eyes a huge amount for Cairngorm was to him just a dusting. But all in all it is pretty good up there and as we got told by Sean Langmuir this afternoon...apparently the Cas Headwall is in perfect nick at present!!!! I was a littlebit envious it has to be said as I wouln't have mind a wee run down but we are on an training and assessment after all and not a week of play!
Great day and a super interesting course...look forward to tomorrow!
Cheerio for now,
Chris
2 comments:
that looks like such an amazing time!
Amazing blog!
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