Author: Ski-Allenheads

Great day to today but forecast and conditions not so good tomorrow so unsure about opening. Will update in the morning.

There’s been a little more snow so, with a frozen base, conditions should be good tomorrow. We’ll aim to be open for 10.00am. As ever, please park carefully. The Hemmel café should be open from 10 – a pre-ski breakfast?

For once there is some consistency in the weather forecasts and it is looking likely that there will be snow tonight and tomorrow. There may not be a lot, maybe 6 to 10 cms, but the ground is frozen so that should be enough for a day or so of snowsport. It is possible there will be enough snow to open tomorrow but more likely on Saturday. and maybe Sunday. There’ll be a further update in the morning.

A Happy New Year to all and a definite prospect of some New Year snow. At the moment, there’s plenty of snow near the coast but none yet as far inland as Allenheads. The forecast is suggesting more snow next week, perhaps as early as Monday but more likely from midweek. Once the conditions are suitable, we’d expect to open and will post again as soon as we can.

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A couple of cms of snow at Allenheads but not enough to ski or board on. Also expect a slow thaw later this morning and no more snow so we’ll have to wait for the next proper snowfall.

I’m afraid conditions are as we expected. There’s a fairly quick thaw – temperature about 3 degrees – and the snow is going fast. We’ll have to wait for the next cold spell before we open again. Hopefully this early start to the snow season is a harbinger of a snowy winter to come.

Very good day today on a mix of packed snow with a bit of fresh added and some icy patches. Complete cover again, even at the end of the day. Unfortunately the forecast is for the weather to warm up overnight with some sleet followed by rain so it’s unlikely we’ll be able to open tomorrow. However we will check conditions first thing in the morning and will update around 8.30am.

A very good day at Allenheads – blue sky, minus 1oC and 11cms of lovely light snow. Only downsides were absence of people – there were only a dozen of us – and a frozen rope on A tow. The tow worked OK but tended to slip if more than 2 people on the tow at a time. I suspect we’ll have the same problem tomorrow although it might ease as the day goes on.

We’ll run the tows tomorrow from about 11.00 until about 3.00, maybe a little bit later. We’ve got some work to do on both tows which we’ll try and get done from 11.00 but will need some support, especially to replace the support rope at the top of A tow. So if you plan to come tomorrow, will be great if you can get there for 11.00. The work should take less than 30 minutes.

Difficult to be sure but I think we’ll also be able to open on Friday but probably not Saturday.