And what better way to start than a nice thick layer of lovely snow. About 30cm of it, with the ski area itself reporting around 60cm from higher up. Very nice.

The heavy snow hasn't arrived yet. Just another cm or so down at base since yesterday and a few higher up.

Just about 1cm to report this morning with the ski area saying there has been several cm on mountain. So not much.

Now that the taps seem to have been turned on, the ski area is reporting another 40cm of snow up on the mountain.

The ski area will be part open from tomorrow, Sunday 1st December.

It's good to see some snow on the ground again this morning.

Just a dusting-plus of snow really, so the mountain isn't looking much different this morning.

We had some snow fall down to base with around 10cm at base and a bit more than that higher up. It was getting real windy too at times.

Just a quick first report to record the first snowfall of the season with around 5cm at base and up to 10cm on upper areas of the mountain.