Waiting to go.

We're away to Les Houches on 2nd January - husband is being sent up into the loft this morning to get the gear down.... :)

Pablo, how's the Scottish white stuff coming along? I lived in Glasgow until march this year - gonna miss the early morning runs to Glencoe!

kateshaw wrote:We're away to Les Houches on 2nd January - husband is being sent up into the loft this morning to get the gear down.... :)

Pablo, how's the Scottish white stuff coming along? I lived in Glasgow until march this year - gonna miss the early morning runs to Glencoe!

I live in Glasgow, Merchant City. Looking good, people have been making lift served turns at Cairngorms already and my closes, Glencoe, looks to be shaping up. Filling in nicely :D

www.winterhighland.info/cams/glencoe/

I'm so jealous!!

We lived on York St, used to spend an indecent amount of time & money in The Brunswick....

I pretty much learned to ski at Cairngorm & The Lecht. Couldn't understand where the rocks & mud were when I finally went to a French resort ;)

kateshaw wrote:I'm so jealous!!

We lived on York St, used to spend an indecent amount of time & money in The Brunswick....

I pretty much learned to ski at Cairngorm & The Lecht. Couldn't understand where the rocks & mud were when I finally went to a French resort ;)

The Brunswick is probably less than 5 minutes from my front door, I am in the old post office building on South Fredrick.

They are definitely not at Glencoe ;)

Wanderer wrote:For those of you who can't wait, I got an email from this crowd

http://www.stantonchalets.co.uk/

offering a catered chalet in St Anton for Christmas week for £369, incl. flights (ex. UK) and transfers. This was down from £799 or something like that

Thats a hell of a deal to be fair. However I must work and flights from the UK are not so useful as I would need to fly there first to get them )

Need to decide on somewhere for Christmas though, any ideas?

Austria, Germany or Switzerland
Train station in resort
3 nights stay
Decent quality hotel
Snow

Tino, for the all round experience, Zermatt, though looking at the number of lifts open today, you would not want to be there right now :shock:
The lift co. had more open earlier, but the hills seem to have closed!

bandit wrote:Tino, for the all round experience, Zermatt, though looking at the number of lifts open today, you would not want to be there right now :shock:
The lift co. had more open earlier, but the hills seem to have closed!

That will be the wind!!

Last Sunday I got off the KM cable car and walked the 150m of flat before the run down to Plata Rosa, 70km wind, -17°C and snowing lightly. With the ice crystals blowing about the from of me was frozen solid by the time I tarted riding including both sides of my sunglasses. I had to ride the entire run in extremely low visibiity with the naked eye!!!

Had looked at Zermatt but hotels are not looking good. Also I have been three times in the last couple of months. I do agree it will be kicking, but I fancy somewhere a little smaller. Saas Fee was right up there.

I suggest looking at Engelberg as a possible. Pretty lively centre, less cute than Zermatt or Saas-Fee, good railway access right into the centre. Lively nightlife 8)

http://www.skilodgeengelberg.com/

http://www.bellevue-terminus.ch/yucatan.html