Good snow conditions

Many thanks to everyone who helped Cairngorm today by helping to dig the train track out from the humungous snow drifts that have covered it over the past week. Thanks to your efforts as well as all the Cairngorm team, who have been at work many hours a day, it looks like the ski area will be open from tomorrow. However there is still plenty of work to be done, so initially we should expect only a limited area however, as tows are dug out and wires put on, we should get it all going.

Some of my photos I took today (17th January) are below. I was working on the big drift above the middle platform. Some of the area we are working on is usually where you would go from the White Lady under the train track to go to the M1 poma, so that might give an idea of how much snow is in this drift!

There is a train track under there honestly!

Some of our instructors digging

Looking down the track towards the middle platform as a piste basher pushes snow off the track!

Looking up at the next big drift (there are more above that one)!

Ian Whitaker, Cairngorm Mountain Chief Executive, wielding a shovel

Still digging the ski area out after the storms

Cairngorm are looking for an army of volunteers with shovels to help dig out the ski area tomorrow (Sunday 17th January).

Here is a picture of Amanda on the link road today (16th January).


















Here is a picture taken today looking up at the White Lady and M1 ski runs above the middle station, clearly showing some of the drifts that will need to be dug out tomorrow.

Lots more new snow so digging the ski centre out!

Cairngorm has received a lot of new snow this week, and this has arrived in a storm with lots of high winds. This has meant that they have spent all week digging out the road from Glenmore to the Day Lodge. They have brought in large diggers to help the snowploughs and piste machines do this, however the road continues to fill in as fast as they clear it, while the wind is high. Hopefully the wind will die down soon and then any damage from the storm can be assessed as well as the start to digging out tows and buildings. The picture below shows the major drifting that has taken place over the last few days, including the number of snow drifts covering the train track. It is clear there will be a lot of work to do once the road is clear and customers need to be aware that this is going on and everyone is working hard to get the ski area open.

As we can't access the ski area we have had to cancel all our lessons this week. We hope to get back to business as normal next week, although with a lot more snow!

You can ski and board anwhere!

There has been some great skiing and boarding on Cairngorm over the past few weeks, with superb powder and good conditions. Due to the great snow Cairngorm has been extremely busy and so we would recommend that customers are aiming to be on Cairngorm early, especially at weekends.



If you want lessons then we would recommend booking to avoid disappointment, as we have also been very busy. We are struggling to keep up with the quantity of phone calls and emails that we are receiving, and if you just get voicemail then it means we are already on another call. Please help us by only leaving one message, and we will get back to you as soon as we can.