Nevis Range Blog

The Back Corrie has some great sliding though still has limited cover. The Corrie has yet to benefit from prevailing westerly weather, less snow having fallen from the north and east which has provided masses else where. Chancers has the best cover to Braveheart tow, a twisting roll in entrance and consistent sliding. Localised instabilities have today been identified in the snow pack with soft snow on an icy base. Rocks remain either visible or just below the soft snow surface. The traverse out is complete on the right line up to the end of the Nid Ridge where it becomes impossibly rocky and icy to slide. Realistically a walk of about 200 metres is required to get to the top of Rob Roy’s Return from Pinball Alley where a complete traverse back to Alpha Tow is possible on the upside of the fence.

Formally the back corrie is NOT PATROLLED (at own risk) however for advanced skiers, with back country experience and suitably equipped, offers some early season potential.

We’re looking for a small group of folk to help us help our customers when we’re really busy. You’d work a few hours a day, a few days over the winter, at weekends and at holidays. If you’re willing to give up your sliding time to help people, and talk about the snow & run conditions, about what’s going on and how to keep in touch, then this may be for you. If you’re interested, then please email davie@nevisrange.co.uk telling him why you want to get involved

We’ve at last got the vouchers page live on the website. Its taken a bit of time to get to grips with PayPal and also to get the page design right!  But its live now.  We’ve used PayPal as the backend functionality as we think its pretty secure and it lets you buy either using your credit card etc or via your PayPal account.  We’ve put the most popular types of vouchers on the website, so you can easily buy them online in time for christmas.  If there’s anything else you’d like to see, then please let us know.

Cheers, Nevis Marketing, marketing@nevisrange.co.uk

Two men and a dog have been busy on the pistes of Aonach Mor getting ready for the SNOW :)  Amidst  blue skies tropical sunshine and horizontal hail, on the same day we hasten to add, they’ve been fixing the existing fencing and building new fencing.

There’s been a bit of filming going at Nevis recently and as it was a blue skies day yesterday, I took the opportunity to sneak up in the helichopper to take a couple of (hundred) pics.  For the skiers and snowboarders, there’s a shot of the last remaining bit of snow, the hill with no snow (check the gully down the goose) + you can see the new fencing that’s going in right now.  For the bikers, you can see the DH and the Nevis Red XC trails pretty clearly.  And for the climbers, we went over the back and you can see some routes.  Enjoy.  I certainly did

The helicopter drops were a success, the red run has been smoothened out in places and will be smoothed further lower down, to make it a bit easier and flow beter which is awesome.

The heli drops on the downhil track have also gone good some bits have been smoothed out with holes filled in and rocks have been added else where, we also have lots of imported rock and lije to build some new stuff, which will be comencing from tomorow. My self and James also rebuilt the hip jump on the motorway yesterday so it is now a  few meters longer which will hopefully stop the overshooting of it and make it ride a bit nicer and faster.

On another note, the endurance downhill was a success and was enjoyed by all despite the rain and sore arms and sore bikes.

The overall winner was James Shirley. Veteran winner was Alistair Maclennan who was also third overall behind James and Chris Hutchens who took the overall 2nd. Junior winner was James Scott, with local rider Rory Maclennan in 2nd. Female winner was Naomi Williamson, while Jesse Wigman took the hardtail win in an amazing 10th place overall.

Full results can bee found at http://www.nofussevents.co.uk/userfiles/File/resultsv09.xls

Just finished putting down skips on the Red track to iron out a few problem sections…. Going for a cup of tea then to shovel, rake and whack everything into place…. Will get some before and after photos…

A fairly wet and windy day today @ Nevis Range saw a busy bike track team filling in many holes and water troughs in particular on sections between Avalanche and Tower 13.  Further down the track close to the first fire road crossing was also given some attention to flatten some braking bumps and fill water damage.

Plans for tomorrow are to fill some more water damage up top and whacker plate any soft sections…. A lot of riders have been riding off track to avoid avalanche so some log  edging will be put in place here and a sustainable chicken run built.

Well done to anyone riding the track today, it looked pretty wild…

Track Closures…

• DH track will be closed on Thursday 30th July due to helicopter work. 

• Red Route will also be closed Thursday 30th July due to helicopter work.

• A 50m section of DH track (from pinball to first big berm) will be closed Tuesday 4th August - Wednesday 5th August for major reconstruction. The rest of the track will be open with a walking diversion around this section.

Gravel is being helicoptered to the Red Route sort a few rock sections and for the four tight corners up the top. Rocks and gravel are  being flowen to the DH track to rebuild a few sections and to iron out some roughness and holes.  Expect some photos of on going work over the next few weeks…

New feature coming soon for the DH track…. Details and photos to follow in the near future….