Blog Posts in Category: Sports

When my alarm went off at 5:30 we were very tired and didn’t manage to wake up, a few hours later we finally woke up at 9:00 having had about 11 hours sleep in the back of a car! Still feeling worn out, knowing that there was going to be a massive amount of fresh powder with the potential that we would need to turn back due to the avalanche risk we decided to make the most of the new powder by heading up for a days skiing at Glencoe Mountain resort. Due to wanting to learn to ski tour I decided this would be a good time to end my circa 12 year break from skiing while I have been snowboarding and I am very glad I did, it turns out that skiing is like riding a bike and you don’t forget. The viability on the mountain was awful in the morning and finding the way down was a challenge, however the snow was fantastic. After lunch it cleared on the lower mountain which meant that suddenly fantastic lines of unskied powder could be seen so I had a. Read the full article…

On the final day we decided to head to Nevis Range for some sliding, and this time the Gondola did actually open (but not before scaring us with a technical fault). It was the first time I have Snowboarded in six years and the first time in the UK. Due to only ever having snowboarded in the alps I have never had to use a drag lift or t-bar so was fairly apprehensive about them and also I had no idea how I would cope on the board after such a long time off. Thankfully it all came quickly flooding back and after a few runs of the blue while Simon was teaching Hannah how to ski I was keen to head off to some harder routes with him. This did however mean braving a T-bar, however it turns out they are not too bad and I managed to survive the whole day without falling off a lift. Me and Simon really went for it, skiing every route which was open but not in the Back Corries at least once and lots of them we did twice as we wanted. Read the full article…