Glencoe Mountain Resort Looking at the low hanging cloud I was having one of those ‘will I, won’t I’ mornings. But I subscribe to the belief ‘a bad day in the mountains is better than a good day in the office’. I was going to hang on to that belief as it was a wet […]
Tag: Winter
Day 5: 2019
Snowboarding at Glencoe Mountain Resort, Scotland. Day 5, 2019.
Day 2: 2019
Snowboarding at Glencoe Mountain Resort. Day 2 .
Day 1: 2019
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 […]
Why lie about wintery weather?
Fake winter news We all see the headlines, permeating fear amongst the populous, while we as snow lovers feel a pang of excitement only to realise its the usual batch of scaremongering and fake weather news that the tabloids seem to thrive on. Is it all about selling papers or filling column inches? Whatever the […]
Preparing for snowboarding season 2018-19
Getting my boards ready Glencoe Mountain Resort has opened for a preliminery couple of days, promoting their new snow factory machine. The rest of the mountain is still waiting patiently, slowly filling with natural snow from the blustery westerlies. Due to family priorities, I didn’t head north myself. I’m waiting for the real stuff so […]
Day 27: 2017/18 with an Olympian
Where Else?… Glencoe Mountain Resort Sunday morning, the clocks had sprung forward an hour. Yes, I slept in. Not bad considering that I’m sleeping in the back of a car. By 9:30am I was up on the slopes but without breakfast, damn it! I needed to get up the hill though as Billy Morgan was […]