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Come with TREKnTRAIL for a memorable and enjoyable outdoor experience walking or mountain biking near Aviemore in the wonderful Cairngorms National Park.
www.trekntrail.co.uk Act NOW to grab a Nevis Season Pass at last years prices.... This Report for the Scottish Highlands was issued at
19.08hrs Friday 27th August 2010. Winterhighland is in the process of moving to a new hosting set up with a new hosting company ahead of the autumn. Some disruption to services may occur in the last few days of August.
You are viewing Winterhighland on our new server via our dot com domain, but a small number of services such as the webcams and mountain weather stations will only be available at www.winterhighland.info during the changeover period.
Summer 2010 is drawing to a close, and let's be honest, Summer 2010 will be more memorable for never ending 2010 snowsports season on CairnGorm Mountain which finally drew to a close on the Summer Solstice than for the summery weather which followed the last day of lift assisted sliding!
Indeed if the mountain forecasts have called it correct and things pan out as expected earlier on Friday, then we could well see the first snows of winter 2011 before summer 2010 fades out with the end of August! If the sign of a chill in the mountain forecasts has you thinking of the winter to come, then Nevis Range riders listen up! Until the end of August, Nevis Range is offering 2011 season tickets not just at an early bird price, but at the 2010 Early Bird price - so act now if your thinking of a Nevis Range ticket. Visit www.nevisrange.co.uk and do it now! CairnGorm Mountain and the all area National Pass go up after 31st September so don't wait to long if your thinking about one of those. Just 9 days riding will have a 'Gorm ticket pay for itself, plus the advantage of going straight to the lifts with no ticket queue and a discount in retail and catering. :: 2010: Looking back... Close to a couple of hundred skiers and boarders were chilling out on a hot sultry day on Saturday 5th June with the Ptarmigan Tow providing uplift, but the weather was in a less welcoming mood on the Sunday. The weather also caught people out at the start of the season, there had been little sign of snow on the hills, indeed it had been a very mild autumn and the start of the season almost came out of nowhere. Certainly the past season will add fuel to the 'Warm October = Cold Winter' fire! An early December storm gave a sense of excited anticipation of the season ahead when it left the likes of the Ciste Gully and Cas Gunbarrel with that critical full length base by the end of the first week in December. That single event aside it was thereafter a fairly run of the mill start to the early season period, decent early season sport but nothing spectacular (good or bad). That was until late on the evening of wed 16th December - it started snowing and basically pretty much forgot to stop!! The snow started to pile up and folk wondered if it would last for a White Christmas. As it was Christmas came and went, then Hogmanay and still it kept coming, but perhaps most unbelievable was that it kept on falling in next to no wind. Yet despite the lack of drifting, depths were reaching levels that parts of CairnGorm that simply should not ever be skiable were seeing action, be it fresh tracks in the bottomless powder or cliff hucks in Coire Cas above the Home Road. All areas saw a fantastic festive period, even Glencoe opening up before New Year for the first time in a good many years. However with much of the precipitation coming in from the North East, it was CairnGorm Mountain and the Lecht which repeatedly caught the biggest falls of winter 2010. For several weeks snow piled up on the Cairngorm Plateau, with little drifting there was a uniform very deep cover. The first real wind arrived in the form of a Storm Force South Easterly, more importantly a cold South Easterly. There is quite simply no better wind direction for filling in the natural ski runs on CairnGorm and with unprecedented volumes of loose snow upwind from the snowsports area on the Plateau, CairnGorm Mountain was about to hit the jackpot. If a picture says a thousand words, there are many volumes describing winter 2010 in Pix from the Slopes and of course the Public Reports! If you happen to be up CairnGorm way during the summer, pop into the T-bar for the 'Big Freeze' Exhibition, a series of photos and short video compilation following the season through from the aftermath of that January storm and the subsequent Big Dig! • top of page •
:: Mountain Weather Outlook • top of page •
:: English Club Fields Summary Allenheads: http://www.ski-allenheads.co.uk/ Yad Moss: http://www.yadmoss.co.uk Swinhope/Weardale: http://www.skiweardale.com Raise: http://www.ldscsnowski.co.uk • top of page •
:: Winterhighland Webcams & Automatic Weather Stations NEW for 2010: Loch Morlich Webcam showing CairnGorm from the Windy Ridge, west over Coire Cas, Sneachda and Lochain is now live. NEW for 2010: Glencoe SSC Hut webcams added late Nov 09 have now been complimented by a new Summit Cam (March '10). Access Camera providers an overview of the mountain from the top of the Access Chair. http://www.winterhighland.info/cams/glencoe/ . CairnGorm SSC: www.winterhighland.info/cams/cairngorm-mountain . Live weather data and graphs of the past 48hours weather from CairnGorm Mountain at www.winterhighland.info/cairngorm and Glencoe at www.winterhighland.info/glencoe . Mountain Spirit host our Aviemore Webcam which looks down Grampian Road in the direction of the Ski Road. See www.winterhighland.info/cams/aviemore . • top of page •
:: Ski Area Contact Numbers & Websites Nevis Range: 01397 705825 www.nevisrange.co.uk Lecht: 01975 651440 www.lecht.co.uk CairnGorm: 01479 861261 www.cairngormmountain.co.uk Glenshee: 013397 41320 www.ski-glenshee.co.uk • top of page •
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