Scottish Ski Season Moves up a Gear
Scottish Ski Season Moves up a Gear
Published : 26-Nov-2010 02:33
It's always sunny and snowy in Scotland...
The fresh snow in North Western Britain has enabled a second ski area to open for winter 2010-11 and a third hopes to follow suit tomorrow.
Glenshee has three Poma drag lifts running are reports that Sunnyside has good cover with fresh powdery snow. The Dink dink lift is running for beginners.
"Snow showers continue to fill in the runs and more may open later in the day." Says a ski area statement.
The Lecht, the second area hoping to open, says it has adequate snow cover and plans to open tomorrow, but that depends on weather conditions, which have been blizzard like in recent days. Currently (Friday 26th at 2pm) the access road is closed by drifting snow on both sides of the centre.
The centre reports there's new snow on all runs. Eagle, Osprey,Grouse, Robin, Wren and Buzzard are complete and have good cover of new snow.
The two areas will join Cairngorm Mountain which opened two weeks ago at weekends only with terrain initially only suited to beginners and intermediates and only served by the funicular railway. It is now reporting six inches of fresh powder and is open today, including the M1 Poma lift.
On the West Coast Nevis Range reports "substantial snow" above 750m but it is currently closed for annual maintenance, scheduled to continue to December 18th so it has no plans to open until then even if snow cover improves further.
That's not the case at Glencoe to the south which reports runs are "filling nicely" although no date predicted yet for opening.
The latest conditions are reported at: http://ski.visitscotland.com/conditions/
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