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flugeryl


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Scottish Gov Funding to help Ski resorts
Date Posted: 12.18hrs on Tue 3 Feb 15
[www.bbc.co.uk]#

Glenshee and Glencoe to get chairlifts upgraded and Nevis and Lecht pomas

Glenshee and Glencoe will replace their chair lifts, costing £2.47m and £1.89m respectively. The Nevis Range and Lecht will spend £707,000 and £456,000 on upgrades to tow lifts.

Cairngorm Mountain Ltd has already upgraded its infrastructure

Hmmm cough cough....ciste....cough...cough

Be Nice to Skiers, they have it hard enough already
flugeryl


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Re: Scottish Gov Funding to help Ski resorts
Date Posted: 12.19hrs on Tue 3 Feb 15
Graham McCabe, managing director at Glenshee Ltd, said: "The new lifts will further develop Glenshee's snowsports experience by improving access to higher altitude snowfields and will undoubtedly help retain domestic skiers on Scotland's slopes whilst hopefully encouraging more international snowsport enthusiasts to sample what Scottish skiing has to offer."


Be Nice to Skiers, they have it hard enough already
Doug_Bryce


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Re: Scottish Gov Funding to help Ski resorts
Date Posted: 12.22hrs on Tue 3 Feb 15
Absolutely fantastic news for Scottish snowsports grinning smiley
Formal recognition from the Scottish government that ski areas bring a much wider economic benefit to rural areas and should be supported thumbs up

The original press release is here.

[news.scotland.gov.uk]



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Dunc


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Re: Scottish Gov Funding to help Ski resorts
Date Posted: 12.30hrs on Tue 3 Feb 15
Fantastic news!

Will Glenshee just replace chairs or will there be one over to Coire Fionn?
Andy


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Re: Scottish Gov Funding to help Ski resorts
Date Posted: 12.32hrs on Tue 3 Feb 15
Just saw this on BBC - great news....wonder which chair at glencoe is being replaced? cliffy or access?.
somnambulant_sasquatch


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Re: Scottish Gov Funding to help Ski resorts
Date Posted: 12.49hrs on Tue 3 Feb 15
More obviously, a key ski run will be improved by a more robust bridge.


so will this be access to, or from, the goose t-bar? hmmm.
firefly


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Re: Scottish Gov Funding to help Ski resorts
Date Posted: 13.02hrs on Tue 3 Feb 15
Honestly, anyone would think there's a general election coming up... smiling smiley

I'm sure it's just coincidence that all Scottish ski centres are in Lib Dem seats, and that this is in no way to bolster local SNP support!

Cynicism aside (ahem), this is obviously good news for the ski areas, and I'm sure Graham will have the money put to good use at Glenshee. Let's hope the other areas spend wisely, too.



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tim1mw


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Re: Scottish Gov Funding to help Ski resorts
Date Posted: 13.05hrs on Tue 3 Feb 15
Great news.

I'd be intrigued to know if this money is paying for the already announced upgrade of the Cairnwell Chair, or if this is for further plans which have yet to be publicised.



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Freeheel


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Re: Scottish Gov Funding to help Ski resorts
Date Posted: 13.11hrs on Tue 3 Feb 15
The wooden bridges over Alt Sneachda (if that's what's being talked about) do both so that's just maintenance capex in my book rather than being something new.

A pot of money is great news though even if just for a refresh and if they can protect against lightning strikes that makes a lot of sense. thumbs up

A T bar from Rob Roy to improve access to Braveheart and the backs is what I'd like to see but unfortunately not likely to be a goer unless there is some trickle down spend from the big developments that are proposed at the bottom. eye popping smiley
Doug_Bryce


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Re: Scottish Gov Funding to help Ski resorts
Date Posted: 13.28hrs on Tue 3 Feb 15
No idea how the money will be spent.
£1-2 million is small change compared to large scale alpine lift developments.
However it will make a massive difference to the Scottish areas.

Glenshee have already submitted planning permission for replacement Tiger chairlift up Cairnwell. I would presume this is part of the funding ? A chair linking Meall Odhar to Coire Fionn has also been suggested over the years.

At Glencoe they have already announced plans to run a lift up "old mugs alley" from the cafe to top of the existing poma (2nd hand lift already purchased). Other proposals sometimes mentioned include a new chair from top of the access chair to bottom of the spring run / a replacement cliff hanger chair or maybe an intermediates poma opening some new terrain below the east ridge.

They won't all happen - however exciting times for Scottish skiing.
Good on the Scottish government for finding funds to help support the industry thumbs up.



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andytb


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Re: Scottish Gov Funding to help Ski resorts
Date Posted: 14.35hrs on Tue 3 Feb 15
Look forward to Andy's statement

Replacing the Cliffy with a chair all the way up main basin would be nice. 1.8m can go a long way- I remember 6m being quoted for a detachable. Move the summit button down the hill somewhere and it might run more often.
jabuzzard


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Re: Scottish Gov Funding to help Ski resorts
Date Posted: 16.19hrs on Tue 3 Feb 15
Freeheel Wrote:
The wooden bridges over Alt Sneachda (if that's what's being talked about) do both so that's just maintenance capex in my book rather than being something new.


Maybe it is going to fun something a bit more robust than a wooden bridge?


A T bar from Rob Roy to improve access to Braveheart and the backs is what I'd like to see but unfortunately not likely to be a goer unless there is some trickle down spend from the big developments that are proposed at the bottom.


Ripping the drive motor out of Braveheart and replacing it with something that has some more umph and reliability would by my first suggestion, along with some Gaz-ex avalanche control.
Gorminator


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Re: Scottish Gov Funding to help Ski resorts
Date Posted: 16.29hrs on Tue 3 Feb 15
So what exactly is Cairngorm's Infrastructure ?

They must have a wildly different take on the word and it's derivatives ?
CMartindale


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Re: Scottish Gov Funding to help Ski resorts
Date Posted: 16.37hrs on Tue 3 Feb 15
Finally, that would explain the TV cameras at Glenshee today.

I heard about this but didn't appreciate the extent. I believe part of the funding for the new Cairnwell chairlift is coming from this. Which has the green light from planning now smiling smiley

Fantastic News.
growwild


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Re: Scottish Gov Funding to help Ski resorts
Date Posted: 16.45hrs on Tue 3 Feb 15
Good stuff now aw that's needed is more Scottish mps representing Scotland in westmidden winking smiley



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