Wintersports Rediscovered
Aberdeen in Scotland’s Garthdee ski centre has added a tubing slope, the first of its kind in the UK, as part of a major upgrade.
A new slope surface has been installed and a local graffiti artist has decorated the terrain features including jumps and rails.
Continue reading ‘Aberdeen Ski Centre No Longer On A Downward Slope’
Scotland’s Lecht ski area opened for the 2008-09 season yesterday. Following recent heavy snowfalls which are continuing across Scotland’s mountains. The Eagle 1, Grouse and Snowy Owl pistes are all complete but they have some thin areas. There is no nursery area complete at present.
Continue reading ‘Scotland ski centre provide Halloween treat for skiers’
The company than runs CairnGorm mountain ski area, which celebrated its most successful season in terms of snow cover consistency and visitor numbers for seven years when it finished its ski season earlier this month, is to be taken over by a public agency.
Continue reading ‘CairnGorm mountain gets public buyout’
Hundreds of volunteers recently descended on two of Scotland’s ski resorts, Nevis Range and Cairngorm Mountain, to help pick up litter dropped during the ski season in ‘The Big Spring Clean’, an event organized by the Ski Club of Great Britain.
Continue reading ‘Scottish ski resorts get a spring cleaning’
This report was just filed by our main SkiRebel correspondent Patrick Thorne who informs us of the incredible skiing that is ongoing in Scotland.
While most ski areas are all wrapped up for the season, he reports the following facts:
Great conditions continue across Scotland so Snow24 took a snow day and headed to The Lecht late last week…
We’ve had fresh snow nightly for the past 10 days and the past two days have dawned clear, blue and still.
That gives that rare and precious alignment of the planets over Scotland’s ski areas when:
The snow is good - not too icy, not too wet. The gale force wind is not blowing - no wind chill agony.
The sky is blue - you can see. The slopes are empty - no queues for rentals, tickets, lifts, food…
The access roads are clear and the car parks empty. And all at the same time!!!
Patrick
–So there you go – if you are headed that way and were wondering you have all the goods and info for your journey. Thanks for the update Patrick. To see his pictures, please click on the following links:
With the end of March, SportsRebel Media Ventures (SMV) Ltd. is happy to announce that it broke an all time record for monthly unique visitors with a whopping 666.78 % to SkiRebel Magazine in March 2008 to the same period a year earlier. This staggering growth was led with incredible traffic increases of more than 2000 % on March 28th alone.
Continue reading ‘666.78% more visitors come to SkiRebel Magazine in March’
Plans for a 100m indoor snow slope in Aviemore, Scotland have been unveiled by the entrepreneur behind the world’s largest indoor ice climbing wall, also based in Northern Scotland.
Continue reading ‘Indoor Snow Centre in Scotland to Draw Crowds’
