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| bobalexander1983 wrote: |
I climbed Ben Macdui and Cairngorm at the end of last summer (when the funicular was briefly running again). Judging from the volume of people at the top of Cairngorm when I walked over from Macdui there is no way they are actually preventing funicular passengers from leaving the top station to get onto the plateau. Would say numbers at the top of Cairngorm were in 3 figures (including a kid on top of the cairn throwing rocks off) and many who were in footwear I think it would've been almost impossible to walk up from the car park in.
Dozens more had walked down to look into the corries towards Macdui as well. |
The riff raff seem to be incredibly resilient, I've seen them at the top of Ben Nevis in their flip flops. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Apparently the solution is more angle iron and more threaded rod. Oh and more tax payers cash!
Enough was enough a long time ago. No matter if they send £20m more building a new viaduct superstructure out of steel to the original specifications, none of the fundamental operational shortcomings will have been addressed.
At absolute best non stop bottom to top it can’t exceed 600 persons per hour. For a variety of reasons it struggles to sustain more than 400 per hour for any length of time. And if there was a big snow storm with winds from the S to SE, it will be moving 0 per hour for days after! 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Channel 82 (talking pictures) tonight at 20.50 ;;
"Look at Life - Snow Business : 1961. A look at the flourishing winter sports business within Scotland......"
Should be an interesting watch - mabye??!!
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Snowsports enthusiasts to protest about ‘mis-management’ of Cairngorm Mountain
A demonstration has been organised to protest against Highlands and Islands Enterprise’s management of Cairngorm Mountain with a rallying call to ‘bring signs, noise makers, food and friends’.
The organiser, ski school worker Mike Marcus, has admitted it is a step into the unknown but said he was frustrated that no-one was doing anything about things despite, he said, the deep local concern. He has been busy in recent days delivering flyers in and around hundreds of homes in the Aviemore area to promote the demo to take place at the resort’s Coire Cas car park on Wednesday (April 24) at 6.30pm.
Mr Marcus told the Strathy: “It seems to me that everyone is unhappy with what is happening at Cairngorm Mountain but not actually doing anything about it. I do understand why because of the local politics. It seems to me that the mess with the funicular at Cairngorm Mountain is basically stopping people from getting to the Ptarmigan. The funicular is a money pit and the more public money that goes into this abyss the more they do not want to remove it and do something else to improve uplift".
“Clearly it has been another awful winter for Cairngorm Mountain but all along there have been fantastic conditions at the Ptarmigan. It is the highest area that people can ski or snowboard on in the whole of the UK and that is why Cairngorm is so special as the resort has these snow-secure slopes. “But there is no-way to get up there for most people unless they walk for half-an-hour and even then the M1 Poma lift is only really suitable for experienced skiers and boarders - and that is when it is in operation.”
On the funicular, Mr Marcus said: “It seems absolutely absurd to me that HIE is throwing good money after bad. HIE has lost all trust locally.But there seems like there is some traction forming at the moment and it is the right time to get the public involved - the media are interested, MSPs are interested. It only takes a few determined people to get the ball rolling. Universally speaking, everyone in Aviemore hates what is going on with the funicular and blame HIE for the fiasco".
“Aviemore and Glenmore Community Trust is led by residents who have good experience of running successful local businesses and have brought ice skating back to Aviemore as well as being in the process of completing an community asset transfer for the Glenmore Visitor Centre.
“It is clear that HIE needs to go and the community take over the mountain.”
HIE declined to comment to the Strathy.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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A demonstration by local and nearby people is obviously great.
What about a petition, too, circulated UK wide, to catch all who used to go, still go and/or really want to go again? Not sure how to word it, not to whom it would best be delivered, but sure that it'd attract a huge amount of support.
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Petition has been done by Save the Ciste - raising awareness doesn’t help, HIE is accountable to nobody for its malfeasance.
The A&GCT has been very cleverly parked out of the way with HIE funded side projects to allow HIE to carry on destroying the ski area while covering its own ar$e over the funicular project.
I’d be inclined to say it’s time to close Cairn Gorm completely, but that’s probably been the HIE goal for a long time. It offers environmentalists a headline concession for driving forward a new town in the National park, that would make connected people a hell of a lot of money over their and the their children’s lives!
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@haggishunter, out of interest what is the new town you mention?
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@Alastair Pink, see: https://parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2017/09/14/camas-mor-rewilding-new-town-cairngorms/
Off particular note is that to allow the development to go ahead would likely require the the revocation of access rights for outdoor recreation in the Glenmore corridor as mitigation for the environmental impact.
It does however look as if the scale may have been dialled back somewhat - 50 homes a year for 30 years would be 1,500. Pretty sure 2x that was talked about years ago.
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| Alastair Pink wrote: |
Snowsports enthusiasts to protest about ‘mis-management’ of Cairngorm Mountain
A demonstration has been organised to protest against Highlands and Islands Enterprise’s management of Cairngorm Mountain with a rallying call to ‘bring signs, noise makers, food and friends’.
The organiser, ski school worker Mike Marcus, has admitted it is a step into the unknown but said he was frustrated that no-one was doing anything about things despite, he said, the deep local concern. He has been busy in recent days delivering flyers in and around hundreds of homes in the Aviemore area to promote the demo to take place at the resort’s Coire Cas car park on Wednesday (April 24) at 6.30pm. |
Only 14 turned up.
From The Strathspey Herald:
A demonstration over the management of the Cairngorm Mountain resort only attracted a small turn-out but protestors there still hailed it as a useful get-together.
Organiser, ski school worker Mike Marcus, had admitted it was a step into the unknown and was unsure how many people would attend last night at the Coire Cas car park.
But he said he was frustrated that no-one was doing anything about things despite the deep local concern over what was happening at the attraction.
In the end, just 14 folk answered his rallying call to ‘bring signs, noise makers, food and friends’ to show their frustration with Highlands and Islands Enterprises’ management of the resort.
One of those was award-winning outdoors campaigner Dave Morris who told the ‘Strathy’: “There was a small turnout for this protest but it was really useful as those present had expert knowledge on the whole history of the development of downhill skiing on the mountain, its importance for producing medal winning champions as well as detailed knowledge of the engineering and operational failures of the funicular.
More: https://www.strathspey-herald.co.uk/news/low-turn-out-for-demonstration-against-public-agency-s-manag-348937/
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Disappointing, they should have held the rally/meeting in a pub in town.
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