Glencoe Mountain Resort Winter has been a long time coming. At Christmas I had cousins visiting from Australia and they would stay almost the full month of January. The plan was to get up the hill and shred with them before they had to travel home. Winter did not cooperate, not until two days before […]
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Winter throwback video
A brief reminder of early winter at Glencoe Mountain Resort. After the heat wave of summer, I took to the laptop and uncovered some shaky unstable video footage then used it to try my hand at editing using Da Vinci Resolve. Apologies for the shaky cam, but I wanted to play about with the colour grading. […]
Day 39: 2017/18 last uplift
Glencoe Mountain resort It was finally here. 7th May had been marked on the calendar for some time as closing day. Glencoe Mountain Resort was the first Scottish ski area to open and the last to close. I’ll leave it for a later blog post for a retrospective on possibly the best snow season in […]
Day 38: 2017/18
Glencoe Mountain Resort This will be a brief one. I’m at day 38 and the terrain is retreating as I type this. The day started grey at Glencoe as I glanced through one open eye across the car park. It looked misty with no sign of the sunny spells implied in the forecast. I didn’t […]
Day 36: 2017/18
Glencoe Mountain Resort Sunday started bright. At around 6:00am in the car park at Glencoe the sun was shining. However, right on cue, just before it was time for the access lift to open, the wind picked up and the rain started coming down. I went to the cafe and had some breakfast while doing […]
Day 35: 2017/18 Record Days On Snow
Glencoe Mountain resort The forecast for Saturday at Glencoe was for sunshine, and on leaving Glasgow, the sky was blue and the air was warm. As I got closer to Glencoe, I could see cloud scudding across the very tops of the hills. It looked great though, the changing light across the mountain exaggerated the […]
Day 34: 2017/18
Glencoe Apologies for releasing an almost week delayed blogpost. I’ve only just found the time to sit down and write this update from last Sunday. It was a quiet day on the hill, especially compared to the previous day of the banked slalom. It was a landmark for me though. Day 34 equals my best […]