Day 4 of Scottish Season 15/16. The annual trip to Aviemore was the plan for this weekend and I decided since the conditions looked borderline I’d take the long route via Glencoe rather than the A9. Snow had been lost since last weekend and conditions were warmer. I took my time and arrived at Glencoe […]
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Anything Snowboard related including reports direct from the mountains.
Glencoe
Day 3 of Scottish Season 15/16. January was seen off with a trip on Saturday through blizzards on Rannoch Moor and an evening of dinner and drinks at the Clachaig Inn. On arrival we took a short crepuscular stroll around to signal rock then went to the bar for drinks and a hearty meal. The […]
Glencoe
Day 2 of Scottish Season 15/16. Sunday morning lay deep and crisp and even. Unfortunately that was in Glasgow. The roads were actually better though than the previous evening and I did manage to make a slightly earlier start to the day. Sunday promised to be slightly better, and indeed, visibility on the upper part […]
Glencoe
Day 1 of Scottish season 15/16. Well it’s been a long time coming. I’ve had my season pass since October and I’ve been itching to get on snow. December was the warmest on record and saw devastating flooding throughout the land. Christmas came and went with only a gesture of snow filling in some of […]
Winter is coming
The Fourth Phase, Brain Farm’s new movie, a sure sign winter is on the way.
Glencoe Bothy Idea: Circa 2005
Long before the new management developed the hobbit houses at Glencoe Mountain Resort, I had this passing notion to extend the existing building to add accommodation and entertainment facilities for skiers and snowboarders in winter as well as add a new revenue stream from walkers on the west highland way in summer. Looking at the […]
Glencoe Hike
The season is over and the ski centre is closed, but for a while I’ve had the inclination to go snowboarding on my birthday. So, today, I took a day off work and went for a hike up Meall a’Bhùiridh and made it day 23 of the 2014/15 season. The weather was due to […]