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Cairngorm Closed For A Week By Snow

CairnGorm Mountain in Scotland was closed for the past week as staff attempted to ‘dig the resort out from, ‘too much snow.’


By Patrick Thorne

15 October 2009


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CairnGorm Mountain in Scotland was closed for the past week as staff attempted to ‘dig the resort out from, ‘too much snow.’ The lower part of the ski area re-opened on Monday 18th January and staff are now working to re-open the upper half. Over the past decade CairnGorm and other Scottish ski areas have more often been forced to close their ski slopes because of too little snow, rather than too much, but CairnGorm has received nearly two metres of snow on its upper slopes in the past month and strong winds caused drifts up to five metres deep which buried the resort’s access road and parts of the funicular railway, as well as causing a high avalanche risk.

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Patrick Thorne
Patrick Thorne (News Editor) - Patrick has been a full time, year round, professional ski writer for 25 years. Nicknamed “The Snow Hunter” he has located 6,000 ski areas in 80 countries and for the past decade has published a weekly bulletin of stories from ski resorts all around the planet, notching up more than 5,000 reports. He has written a dozen books on skiing, received several awards, had his work translated in to more than 20 languages and was named “One of 20 People To know in Ski” by The Times.


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