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 […]
Tag: Winter
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 […]
Day 26: 2017/18
Glencoe Mountain Resort Wow! A busy day was on the cards at Glencoe Mountain Resort. Ski Scotland’s Snowfest was taking place this weekend, as part of this Glencoe would host a kilted descent and at the same time the Scottish Freedom Series Coe Cup was taking place. I wanted to photograph both, but they would […]
Day 25: 2017/18
Glencoe Mountain Resort Tuesday, and a second day of glorious sunshine was on the cards at Glencoe Mountain Resort. I’d had a very comfortable nights sleep in the car and I’d made the call that it would be my last day of this 4 day stint. Gareth was meeting me today, and there was barely […]
Day 24: 2017/18
Glencoe Mountain Resort Monday was a case of quiet slopes, blistering sunshine, warmer temperatures and full area coverage. This is going to be a difficult write-up. Is there anything more boring to talk about than picture perfect conditions? Conditions on the hill I met Stuart and Katherine this morning and we were the first up […]
Day 21: 2017/18
Glencoe Mountain Resort I woke up on Sunday morning at Glencoe where the condensation on the car windows prevented me from gauging the conditions outside. It looked misty yet again, but the prediction was that there would be a cloud inversion. As I grabbed something to eat, I watched the web cameras, and they did […]
Day 20: 2017/18
Glencoe Mountain Resort Saturday, this would not be a full day. The forecast was miserable and the hill looked to be set in white-out conditions all day. I had three reasons to go up though, in no particular order. Continue my run of days for fourth day in a row. Try my new Lib Tech […]