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Though the original Glenshee Chairlift Company wasn't formed until 1961, this autumn marks the 50th anniversary of proper mechanised uplift at Glenshee Ski area in Scotland. In the autumn of 1957 the Dundee Ski Club installed the Meall Odhar T-bar on the West side of Meall Odhar... Access was on foot via the track that runs up the Southern end of what is now Sunnyside from near the Southern end of the modern carpark and this remained the case until the Glenshee Chairlift Company built the Sunnyside T-bar in 1963, but the 63/64 season was to prove a dire winter (and remains probably the worst on record) and the T-bar only operated on 7 days!
The Meall Odhar T-bar was gradually integrated into the Glenshee network as the uplift expanded Eastwards, with uplift on the Clunny area providing mechanised return, the Meall Odhar Poma was added further North on Meall Odhar in a second natural snow field and then expansion into Fionn Coire, then further expansion up onto Glas Maol in the second half of the 80s. Over time a double chairlift was built on Sunnyside, the Sunnyside T-bar was replaced with a double Poma and the Caenlochan Poma installed to double up the Meall Odhar T-bar to remove queues for access to Coire Fionn.
The Meall Odhar Runs are much underused these days with an awful lot of people seeing them simply as a means of access and egress from Fionn Coire, yet the undulating and varied terrain within and between the natural snowfields can provide a wonderful playground away from the crowds. It also joins the select few of the Coire Cas T-bar and Ptarmigan T-bar (CairnGorm), the Main Basin T-bar at Glencoe and the Snowgoose T-bar at Nevis Range of having turned for skiers in June!
So, Happy Birthday Meall Odhar T-bar, may your big 50 be marked by 6feet of powder on an Easterly Blizzard and T-shirt skiing next June! 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Winterhighland, Marvellous. Brings back memories. Hope you guys get a bumper season.
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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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Winterhighland, let the snow fall on Glencoe preferably in December!!!!
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Ah, Glenshee.
I learned my skiing there in the early 80's. You really needed to want to ski in those days. For each hour you would spend 50 minutes either on a lift of queing for one!
The Tiger was my first ever black run, still have fond memories of it. We stayed in a guesthouse in a place called (I think) Blairgowrie and would drive up to Glenshee each morning after a hearty brecky of porirdge and smokies.
I think the last time I was there was about 1987 (crikey, 20 years), I have heard it is now a mecca for Aussie barmen!
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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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obergurgler, Blairgowrie. The school ski bus used to stop there twice - once on the way up for wee-wees and once on the way down for fish suppers. Marvellous.
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Sad to say I haven't skied there since '93/4. Never any snow, except when the road's closed or it's too windy. Being able to fly to Geneva fae Edinburgh is probably what stops me most. Winterhighland, r u a lawyer?
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| Sad to say I haven't skied there since '93/4. Never any snow |
Isnt it funny how the people who never ski in Scotland are the one's who claim there is no snow ?
Happy Birthday Glenshee 
When its good Glas Maol can be superb.
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I did go just there was no snow - lochnagar from near the Lecht between Christmas and New Year:
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I've many fond memories learning to ski there in the late 70s / early 80s. Took the ski club bus up every Sunday, corned beef sandwiches for lunch, then stopped off in Blairgowrie for a fish supper on the way home.
Still a great place to visit. My all time favorite day skiing in Scotland was a bluebird powder day at Glenshee in Nov 2005 - blue skies, no crowds, no wind, riding a new pair of fat skis. Snow was so deep my 7 year old got buried up to his chest next to the Butcharts T-bar and lost his skis (needless to say, he didn't have powder tracers, so a bit of digging was required)
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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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Many happy returns Glenshee.
Had my father not gone there in 1967 with the YHA, I probably would never have skied
I had some great skiing there over the years. Hopefully I'll get up there this year sometime.
Thanks Dad and thanks Glenshee.
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