Great conditions on Cairngorm

Cairngorm has had a great start to the season, with skiing and riding all over the hill and great snow. Due to this it is extremely busy, and the car parks are currently filled up by 11am. If you have lessons booked please enusre that you are wih us by 8.30am, to ensure that you get into the top car park and are on time for you lesson (these usually leave at 10am).

Lots of fresh snow sets us up for christmas

Cairngorm has had a lot of fresh snow over the past few days and it is looking like a great start to the christmas holidays and to the season. There is some excellent skiing and boarding to be had in the top bowls, as well as down the Cas, M1 and White Lady. Hopefully they'll manage to get the M2 and West Wall side open and they are assessing that at the moment.

Due to the good conditions, we are currently getting a lot of bookings. We would advise you to book for the period between Christmas and New Year to avoid disappointment. If you have booked lessons we would advise you to try to be with us on Cairngorm by 8.30 each morning, as we expect the hill to be pretty busy.

Open for ski and board lessons

We are open for ski and snow board lessons every day, however as it is still pretty quiet we will only run private lessons by demand until the 18th December. From the 19th we will be running group lessons every day until the end of season (apart from christmas day).

Cairngorm is currently not opening any lifts this week, but instead are operating mid station stops on the train so skiers and boarders can use this for uplift. From Saturday 5th December they are aiming to operate as much as possible. Normal winter operating times of 9.00 to 4.00 will apply, and full ticket prices will also apply.

Cairngorm open for skiing and boarding

We have had quite a bit of snow over the last few days. Cairngorm has been working hard to get runs open and at the moment they have the Ciste T-bar and M1 poma open. The train will NOT be running mid station stops during the week, and there is no ski or board hire.Ticket prices are £15 adult and £10 junior.

At the weekend Cairngorm are confident that they will get more of the mountain open, and as a result these prices will revert back to the full ticket prices of £30 and £18. Ski and Board hire will also be available. We will not man our office yet, however lessons can be run by prior arrangement, so phone us on 07881 988480 of you want a lesson.

Bring on the snow!

This is the start of the new blog from the ski and snowboard school on Cairngorm.

Visit us at companies.to/theskiandsnowboardschool, our new facebook page to keep up to date with what is happening on Cairngorm. I am slowly working it all out, and hopefully by the winter it should all be really easy! Our new website should also be up shortly, and it looks good (mind you i am a bit biased). Let me know.

At the moment we are both working down trying to get everything up and running before Amanda goes away to Oz in a few days. It's amazing how much work there is to do to set it all up! Hopefukly by the time she gets back the uniforms will have been printed and embroidered, leaflets, posters etc done and some bookings starting to come in.

Employment wise it is looking good with mostly the same team, and probably about 4 new instructors all of whom have spent their summer in nz so should be raring to go. There are a few new ptimers as well which it is also good to see. I will not be updating this too regularly over the autumn as I see very little need (unless we get snow of course!). Mike

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