Snow report from Saturday 6th March

The Weardale Ski Club Ltd

Spring is officially here - the ice has finally melted on my pond ater 4 months! Similarly the snow is beginning to disappear at Swinhope and we seem to be nearing the end of what has been the most memorable spell of skiing that I have known in my 23 years here. There is still plenty of snow up there and skiing first thing today was good, especially on the pisted runs, but became heavy later on and we closed up at about 2:30pm. All runs however are still open including the gully and the runs over to the est though today were slower and harder work.

We are planning to run tomorrow from about 10am - members only. A very cold night is forecast tonight with temperatures down to -5 or -6c so the snow should be well frozen by the morning and wall to wall sunshine is predicted. Should make for some good skiing in the morning but if the snow gets heavy we may well close early again at a similar time to today. The road today was completely clear.

Tomorrow is our 42nd day skiing and will be my 20th day. A quick calculation show that works out at £1.25 a day skiing for me - I think you might agree pretty good value. Last Tuesday was such a perfect day I am sure we could have charged £50 a day and nobody would have complained. When compared to £35 for 2 hours in the snowdome.......

Steve