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Escape the World Cup - Ski Scotland!!
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Snow! It is perhaps one of the last things most people would associate mid summer with in the UK, especially in this apparent age of Global Warming. However with Wimbledon getting underway (if the rain stops!) and the summer solstice having been and gone, our group of keen skiers marked the first weekend of summer proper through taking the opportunity to escape from the World Cup by getting in some turns on long lasting snowfields on the south side of CairnGorm Mountain.

While it was almost seven weeks since the ski lifts closed on 7th May at CairnGorm, the ski season proper spanned across seven months having begun at the Lecht back on Saturday 26th November. For most ourgroup however Saturday's skiing means June has become their eighth consecutive month of snowsports in Scotland for the 2005/06 season! Cool

This year didn't have to go far to find snow (there's still a tiny patch in the Ptarmigan Bowl) with our destination being the main snow field of the Ciste Mhearaidh, just a few hundred yards from the top of the Ptarmigan Tow.

Once some Summer turns were had we turned our attentions to building a Kicker for the afternoon, which subsequently provided entertainment to passing hill-walkers who stopped off and sat on nearby rocks to watch !

Reports and additional photos at:

http://www.winterhighland.info/2006/pix/pixalbum.php?pix_id=256
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http://www.highland-instinct.co.uk/cairngorm/winter200506/jun06/24/index.html

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Winterhighland, I don't know what to say - that's incredable! Very Happy Is this an unusual year?
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I went camping in June in the Cairngorms 3 years back and there were plenty of decent sized snow patches. It was b####y freezing!
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How wet did you get on the way down without my jacket? It was still p1ssing it down when I got back to the car park.
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which has migrated onto a discusion of the the funicular and VMP - you've probably got more info on that than me!

If the weather is decent next weekend may do it again, particularly as I still want to rollerski up the road from glenmore!
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Hi Dave - me and Helen are planning on heading up again sometime soon too. We're aiming for early July, to bag our 9th month consecutive snowsports, and her 70th day skiing this season! Smile So that'll possibly be this coming weekend, dependant on weather.

Edit: Hoppo, nope this isn't unusual. There is pretty much always this amount of snow left at this time of year, sometimes there's more.
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Will these snow patches last right throught the summer until next season?
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Will these snow patches last right throught the summer until next season?


Sometimes, not sure how usual it is for the Ciste Mhearaidh patch to be a permanent feature, but there are snow patches in Scotland that are permanent except in very exceptional years.

For info eg
Snow patches lasting until winter in north-east Scotland in 1971-2000
Authors: Watson A.; Davison R.W.; Pottie J.

Source: Weather, Volume 57, Number 10, 1 October 2002, pp. 374-385(12)

I can't tell you what is in it cos they want to charge me £9 to read it and thats trying to log on via an institutional log in which I'd hoped would give me free access.
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