Snow sports in Scotland - taking the piste?
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Visit Scotland’s campaign portraying Scotland as a Winter Sports mecca has been criticised as misleading potential visitors. There’s hardly been any decent snow cover in the north of Scotland for years. I know when our son attempted to go snowboarding a couple of years ago it was all slushy hardly the “Artic wonderlands” mentioned on the Visit Scotland website.
Skiing in Scotland, it’s so CR@P you would not believe it” by moron noodle
When I did a Flickr search for “skiing Scotland” the first photo to come up was the one above with the text “Glenshee in Scotland, imagine skiing in cold sleet and howling winds = skiing in Scotland”.
Update
Our son had another attempt in 2008 and after a very early start and a 2 hour coach trip arrived in Aviemore to discover that the snow had melted overnight.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:34 am
lol ! love the caption ….. yes I can confirm scotland is crap for wintersports … plus I would like to add that I dislocated my arm jumping over on the f@@@ing fence on the left …. Still had a laugh tho
November 16th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Sorry to hear that you dislocated your arm while snow sporting in Scotland, at least you can laugh about it. I hope that you did enjoy some other aspects of your trip in Scotland. Being Scottish I believe that there iis so much beauty and other active sports such as kayaking and mountain biking that it is foolish of Visit Scotland to heavily promote snow sports with the unreliable snow cover.
One of our sons has taken up snowboarding and he’s practising on the dry slope at Edinburgh.
November 22nd, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Sure … No disrespect to scotland … As a londoner I would still kill to have mountains like that near where I live … But fact of the matter is that its easier to get to the alps from down here … I almost reckon you’d be better off scrapping the chairlifts so you could go trecking accross the area with nothing man made in site … Oh by the way I used to ride with a couple of scots in france … they both slated glenshee too …
June 4th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Skiing in Scotland!!!, i haven’t heard something so ridiculouus as that in my life. There is no snow and if there is, it’s probably the equivilant you get in southern spain which is like 1cm once a centry.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Have you attempted skiing in Scotland, Alehandro or did you realise that it was probably not a sensible idea?
June 5th, 2008 at 4:30 am
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