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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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meh, yeah your right however Im going to find it very hard to give a balanced opinion of Scotland now as my first trip there was such a complete disaster. Ill say one thing though they have a fine selection of whiskey up there and the locals were very helpful people
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Errr....that would be whisky! Ouch. Feel sorry for your friend and his lost phalanx. And skiing with shingles of the foot. Sounds sore too, although not as terminal. There are steep bits of cairngorm but the lift company have spent the last 20 years systematically making them harder to leave without touring equipment and signposting away from them so I'm not surprised you missed them. Also very steep off piste couloirs in the next coire. Local knowledge always helps 
Still waiting for a decent looking weekend. Looks like another foot or so coming next weekend again. It would suit a lot more people if the weather systems could sort it out to paste the mountains all week, then leave a gap at the weekend! Looks like only a brief respite from the snow for Glencoe on weds/Thursday before the next PM low thumps in fri-sun. More time looking at models (weather) than on the slopes in the short term.
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medlington, check out a group on Facebook called British Backcountry. You'll see a glimpse of the type of skiing in Scotland that is not perceivable to most tourists that only see the centres.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| meh, yeah your right however Im going to find it very hard to give a balanced opinion of Scotland now as my first trip there was such a complete disaster. Ill say one thing though they have a fine selection of whiskey up there and the locals were very helpful people |
no offence but after that tale i never want to be in your vicinity. that is a horrible tale but don't let it put you off. like everyone says if you get the right day scotland can be fantastic
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medlington, shockingly awful story, but surprised you found Cairngorm "far too flat". I think most of the runs deserve their grading (except some blacks should be red, and some greens should be blue), and flat bits don't really spring to mind - seems more like Glenshee, where there are lots of linking runs.
Hope you get a chance to go again at a more ideal time weather-wise, and have a bit more luck getting there in one piece (literally).
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medlington, that's a story to tell the grandkids indeed. Can't help but wonder did you get the funicular back down? Coz it sounds like you stayed up in the ptarmigan bowl at the top, which is a flat area ideal for beginners.
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Can't help but think that medlington's near death experience on the M74 has made everything else in life seem like a piece of cake. I would struggle to describe the White Lady and M1 as flat. As there was nothing open above the train it can't be that either.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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moffatross, yeah we saw a car on its roof on the way back not too far from where we had our incident so can imagine it happens alot. I think the lady in the services did say there was somewhere closer than Biggar but she recommend we go there as it would be more lively.
As for the runs that were 'flat' I really was miles away when we actually got skiing so wasnt paying much attention to the names of the runs but they were basically the ones with the snowpark on which did seem really flat, and the run down to the T-bar from the funicular, although I think I missed the red down as you couldnt see anything when we came down that and I didnt want to head up the funicular again due to the queues and the weather at the top so maybe that run would have been more to my liking. I did enjoy the run next to the far button lift although not sure if it actually was a run as kept coming across large rocks in the snow so it may have been off piste.
If Scotland continues to get snow like they have this year then I may well get tempted to have another crack at it, but I wont be traveling with that couple again, think Ill get the train.
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I'm quite surprised you ended up in Biggar after that incident though, as Moffat should have been closer ...
