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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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With all due respect to Glencoe I actually read the article it’s a load of codswhallop . There will be a local newspaper in Austria celebrating the fact that Flachau is the third best ski resort in the world !
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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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To be fair, am epic day at Glencoe on April is pretty awesome
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The article is a load of nonsense and is a repost from somewhere else.
It is cheap if you anre close and the people are nice but it doesn’t compare to the major places in mainland Europe.
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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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all very true but you can have a grand day out there on a cold sunny day late season
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Not fit to wrap chips
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| cameronphillips2000 wrote: |
| To be fair, am epic day at Glencoe on April is pretty awesome |
Thats absolutely true, and hopefully I will get one next week if conditions allow.
However this is a bit like those "best hotels in XYZ" advertorials you see in those inflight magazines.
I have asked myself a few times - when looking at destinations or hotels / restaurants / bars I have decent knowledge of - if the journalists in question ever actually visited them...........................
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| cameronphillips2000 wrote: |
| all very true but you can have a grand day out there on a cold sunny day late season |
I know, I’m part of the “Coe crew”.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Interesting, I have skied at number 1 and 12. Mostly ski at number 12 in the world due to location. It is very cold here in Scotland.
Could be some skiing (for me) coming up in Glencoe soon when some more lifts open. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@Bigtipper, it is open today 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Glencoe "Resort"?....I love skiing in Scotland, but I'm not sure you could call Glencoe a Resort?
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@jellemr,
Glencoe Mountain - much more visceral 
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You know it makes sense.
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The snow is Colder and the weather is much more sunny than the Alps…..today 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I'm struggling to fit "12th best in the world" in my head at the same time as "the Cliffhanger". I like Glencoe (and I'm even quite fond of the Cliffhanger on a nice day) but I'm not sure I'd put it in the top 12 resorts I've skied in and I've not skied in that many. Glenshee has more (and more varied) skiing but doesn't have the views. Resorts that I've skied in that would rank lower than Glencoe include:
Niederau - the Lanerköpflbahn single chair (now a quad apparently) was ancient 40+ years ago and was just like the Cliffhanger without the "safety" bar add-on
Beech Mountain, North Carolina
Sugar Mountain, North Carolina (the next day; I think they named the resort after the snow, but the marketing people removed "Demerara" from the name).
Of course there are hundreds of tiny alpine resorts.
PS. There was nothing wrong with Niederau as a beginner/early intermediate resort, apart from the chairlift queues at Christmas/New Year. Looking at OpenSkiMap they seem to have hugely upgraded the two main lifts and at least quadrupled the uphill capacity but the pistes look largely unchanged so I suspect the queues are on the main routes down now.
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