 Poster: A snowHead
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Will Nevis open for snowsports this season?
Will the funicular run all season?
Glencoe updating the access chairs
Nice shiney new (to us) chairs for the Access Chair have now arrived onsite. These chairs will be used to replace the current chairs which have had a pretty tough life over the last 35years.
We are then going to have around 150 of the old chairs looking for a new home. It’s likely we will turn some into picnic benches/ seats but open to ideas for what to do with the rest. If anyone wants to make us an offer for them as a job lot please get in touch
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Thu 20-11-25 20:04; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Magnificent to see bonny Scotland s resorts investing in their future of life on a beautiful mountain and mountains.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| oneglove wrote: |
| Magnificent to see bonny Scotland s resorts investing in their future of life on a beautiful mountain and mountains. |
It's good to see a well run resort like Glencoe updating its infrastructure, sadly not all Scottish resorts are doing the same e.g Nevis Range, which seems to have lost interest in snowsports.
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Nice to see, same capacity though. The bottlenecks are further up the mountain and I do wonder if money might've been better spent up there. Still, they're the experts and by far the best Scottish resort.
As to the two other questions, no one will ski at Nevis again under the current ownership and I've got December 29th in the funicular collapse sweepstake
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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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@Meltus, Rannoch chair should take some of the strain, but I know what you mean - still need to get up the Wall T, or the wee chair and one of them off makes it problematic.
Glencoe are still excellent at what they do though.
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The Rannoch Chair has taken a lot of strain off the Cliffhanger Chair, the options from the triple chair are much better for early intermediates and as such less experienced riders are less inclined to use the Cliffy. As another plus, because of the transformational shift in across Plateau uplift capacity and because the Cliffy has not been such a bottleneck, it encourages a bigger proportion of more advanced riders to do longer laps, either to the mid lifts, or back to the top of the Access Chair - that itself takes a bit of pressure off further up as these people are not lapping as quickly as if they were going straight back to the top tows.
To further those benefits I'd quite like to see a new weekend ticket option that provides a 'Plateau only' ticket on weekends and peak times priced the same as the standard mid-week ticket. This would further ease the load on the Cliffhanger Chair while also giving families a more affordable ticket option for weekends and holidays.
Now we just need a decent season to see what the Rannoch Chair can really do. Days when there is riding to the low level carpark are going to be pretty special now there is capacity to do full laps of the 2400feet vertical without the major bottleneck at the Plateau Poma. The new 'motorway' section of the bike tracks is going to be pretty fun when there is low level snow as you'll be able to come off the Darkside on it and finish right outside the base cafe, or if coming down the fence line or track, be able to cross the river on the bike bridge and ride the berms round to the base cafe!
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I was more thinking of the summit pomas, would love to see a 4 man chair up there - in my dreams I know!
Hopefully haggishunter is right about pressure being taken off the summit pomas. The rannoch hair has made a massive difference to the plateau poma for sure.
I didn't see the Wall t bar running once last year, even on decent snow days. Hope it's ok.
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Does anyone know if you can still park a motorhome at Glencoe in the winter season?
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| Alastair Pink wrote: |
| oneglove wrote: |
| Magnificent to see bonny Scotland s resorts investing in their future of life on a beautiful mountain and mountains. |
It's good to see a well run resort like Glencoe updating its infrastructure, sadly not all Scottish resorts are doing the same e.g Nevis Range, which seems to have lost interest in snowsports. |
Well the ptarmigans that raise the colours would think differently every winter, they plump for snowflake white and that’s a sign they’re not given hope on a snowy peak. A snowy peak they are thinking. They are the supreme hopers of atleast a snowy peak and I will applaud the mountain bikers and no snow activities but will only accept the great Bonny dae bonny dee Scotland winter season is kaput when the last Ptamigan fecking bird turns ‘not winter colours’.
Excuse me, good winds and Scottish uplands
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i don’t think Glencoe has had a really busy spell since the new chair went in, but as Haggis says it is likely to eliminate queues across the plateau when everything is running.
Perhaps they should consider cutting the grass and heather under the Rannoch chair to form a thin snow route? If they can’t make the snow deeper on those early season days, perhaps they can make the ground a bit lower 
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| kitenski wrote: |
| Does anyone know if you can still park a motorhome at Glencoe in the winter season? |
Yes, but there wont be any electric hookups this winter as they are currently occupied by 4 of the old microlodges.
The Wall T-bar did run last season, but the uptrack was pretty brutal. Not suitable for short male snowboarders!! 
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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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Fingers crossed for a good Winter for them.
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Yes fingers crossed. If the snow arrives to blanket the jaunty rubble or thin enough for the skilled to blast over the frosty tufts and mole hills. Every day will be a blessing to experience. To Kirk of Scotland. When asked ‘ where is your heritage from? he good naturedly replyed. ‘ Where do you think it’s from with a name like Kirk’
Anyway, best foot forward.
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You know it makes sense.
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I really, really hope a bumper season comes. I'm amazed at how positive some of the centres remain when every year must feel like an all out fight for survival.
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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 really, really hope a bumper season comes. |
Me too@damanpunk. November lift-served turns have been possible over the years, with even October being a goer a couple of times in exceptional seasons. You just never know with Scotland!
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Poster: A snowHead
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There will be snow on the tops this weekend.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ben Nevis top now at 1 degree centigrade and tonight -5 predicted with a good run of -5 to -7 drop temps lining up overnight. Ben Nevis is a great benchmark of temps as is the council road live camera at the top of Hartside, Cumbria.
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Tonking it down with snow in various bits today and esp. tonight. Just had a sporting drive along the A939 and A95, 4wd and full snow tyres were fine but quite interesting in places and probably shut with stuck vehicles in a few bits, hills mainly
Hopefully lots of it sticking higher up.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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17cm of snow in my garden near Aberlour this morning. Cairngorm Mountain facebook pages states that they'll be opening late this morning as they need to plough the access road. I know it'll all be gone in a week or so but it's good to see the snow here anyway.
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Cairngorm look like they've caught a bit overnight. Glencoe and Nevis have had a decent dusting too. Hoping it is the start of something that builds... get that freeze/thaw cycle going.
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Cairngorm have opened the Polar Express poma on the plateau this morning, up by train (if you dare) and then roll across to it. Good cover in the bowl, fecking freezing right enough and a touch claggy but we have lift assisted skiing in Nov in Scotland <insert> 
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Quite nippy up here this morning - weather station in a little frost hollow outside Nethy is at -18.1 degrees !
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Disappointing again that Glenshee has not had much more than a dusting.
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It’s sheltered from a northerly. Easterly or south easterly is the best direction at Glenshee.
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