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Week commencing Friday 31st December 2010 at CairnGorm Mountain

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

CELEBRATE THE NEW YEAR ON THE SLOPES OF CAIRNGORM

SNOWSPORTS
CairnGorm Mountain will be open for snowsports on New Year’s Day and every day thereafter weather permitting. All uplift has been operating today and all runs have been open except the Ciste gullies. The forecast for the next couple of days is for moderate winds but largely dry and cloud-free with excellent visibility so we will open everything we can weather-permitting. Pisted runs are skiing really well but off-piste is still pretty hard and the avalanche risk there is considerable.

TICKETS AND PRICES
Our day skiing ticket prices are £30.80 for adults, £22.50 for seniors and students and £18.50 for juniors. 4-day vouchers for £102.40 (juniors £61.60) are also on sale online or at the Ticket Office. They can be used on any day throughout the season until the end of April 2011 but only one voucher per day from each book can be used.

If you don’t have a season ticket and you do not need to hire equipment, there are quicker ways onto the slopes:
1. Buy tickets at Aviemore Ski & Board Hire in Aviemore (01479 811711)
2. Bring cash (we don’t have an ATM machine on site) and pay at the cash only desk which can be found on the left hand corner of the Day Lodge as you look up the hill. This desk handles adult, junior, senior, student, family (2+2) day tickets only. It does not handle ski hire, 2 day tickets, discounts, credit cards, afternoon tickets or vouchers.
3. Buy online and take your booking reference to the Ranger Base to exchange it for a day ticket or present your voucher book there and exchange a voucher from it for a day ticket.

Please be ready to show your ticket to the lift operator at all lifts. Snowboarders must use a safety leash at all times on CairnGorm Mountain.

SEASON TICKETS
Please note that we have suspended the sale of season tickets and will review the situation at the end of next week to consider whether we put any more tickets on sale. If you have already purchased, but not yet uplifted a season ticket you may collect your pass from the Ticket Office. However please be prepared to queue if you come to collect it over the holiday period.

HIRE
Ski Hire will be open every day from 8.30am at CairnGorm, so you can hire any kit you need but there are also several places in Aviemore where you can hire. We can sell out of hire by mid morning when we are very busy which we expect to be over the course of the next ten days.

PARKING AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Get here early if you want to be sure of getting into the Cas car parks.
There has been a modification to the timetable for the enhanced public bus service it will run 3 times hourly (with the first bus up at 0630 and the last bus down at 1810) between Aviemore and CairnGorm Mountain Car Park. This service will run until 9 Jan inclusive. Look out for service no. 34 on the front of the buses. We would encourage customers to use this as it will drop them right at the entrance to the ticket office next to the Base Station. Normal fares apply to this service. Shuttle buses which are free will be running between the Ciste and Cas car parks throughout the day until 9 Jan.

AVALANCHE RISK
Off-piste skiers please beware there is still a moderate to considerable avalanche risk.

OPENING TIMES Throughout the holiday period the ticket office will open at 8.30am with the first train up at 9.00am, possibly later depending on weather conditions. Last train up 3.30pm. Last train down 4.00pm. Lower lifts will open from 8.30am and lifts will start closing from 3.30pm.

Cas Bar and Mountain Shop will open daily from 8.30am until 4.30pm
Ptarmigan open daily from 9.00am until 4.00pm.

INSTRUCTION
The Ski School is busy but still has availability for group and private lessons. To book a lesson call 08455 191191. Please only leave one message on this line. The Ski School will get back to you as soon as they can. Please also try to give a few days‘ notice if you are phoning to book a lesson as they are extremely busy or call in person a day or two beforehand.

SKI AMBASSADORS
Our volunteer ski ambassadors are running free guided tours of the hill daily at 11.30 and 2.00pm. Meet them on the top platform at these times if you want join one of these tours. They wear bright yellow jackets.

SLEDGE PARK
The Sledge Park will open whenever conditions permit. Please check at the ticket office if the sledge park is open before buying your funicular ticket to get there. Only CairnGorm Mountain sledges may be used and they can be hired in the Shop at the Top for £5 per half hour session.

MOUNTAIN WEATHER OUTLOOK
Saturday 1st January: Wind N 20-25mph. A few scattered snow flurries but largely dry with sunshine and excellent visibility. Temp at 900m -3C. Freezing level 300m.
Sunday 2nd January: Wind N 15-20mph. Isolated snow flurries. Little cloud, extensive sunshine and excellent visibility. Temp at 900m -5C. Freezing level at sea level.
Outlook: Milder conditions and westerly winds with rain spreading southwards followed later in the week by the return of cold conditions and fresh snow showers.
Every day
Great shopping in the Mountain Shop and the Shop at the Top. Look out for clothing, skiing essentials, fabulous gifts and accessories. Open daily 10.00am to 4.30pm.
Exhibitions 10.00am – 4.30pm
The Big Freeze exhibition of photographs taken by staff from last winter is on display in the T Bar and on the stairs up to it and in various other locations. Many of the pictures are for sale.
Euan Baxter, local photographer and snowsports enthusiast is displaying his collection of winter photographs Vanishing Tracks in the Ptarmigan Restaurant (closes 4.00pm) until the end of December. Inspired by 30 winters spent in Strathspey, Euan is transfixed by the beauty of these months and the ever-changing conditions. Mounted and framed prints are on sale.

Eating and drinking: Hot rolls are back being served in the mornings in both the Cas Bar and the Ptarmigan Restaurant to get you warmed up ready for skiing. Delicious home-baking can be found every day in our restaurant and cafe bar, and hot meals featuring locally-sourced ingredients in the mountain-top restaurant. ‘The Chocolate Mountain’, a huge concoction of hot chocolate, marshmallows and cream beckons in both locations. Or enjoy a mulled wine at the end of the day to help soothe the aching bones.

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Cairngorms Launches World’s First National Park iPhone App

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

The world’s first National Park I-phone App has been launched today, Monday 18th October, in the Cairngorms National Park by one of the country’s leading tourism and business organisations.

The VisitCairngorms App is the first app in the world to give visitors to a National Park the opportunity to obtain free, up-to-date information on where to stay, what to do and where to eat and drink based on their location within the Park.

In addition, the app will also allow visitors to access information on events taking place in the UK’s largest National Park.

Alan Rankin, Chief Executive of the Cairngorms Business Partnership, the organisation that has developed and launched the Cairngorms App, said: “It is incredibly exciting to be the first National Park in the world to launch a free information app specifically designed for visitors to the area and we are delighted to be leading the way. There are other National Park apps out there, but many are simply games, maps or overview apps – we have done our research and there are none out there that work in the way our app is designed – to get the customer in touch with local businesses and which are completely free to the user.“

The Cairngorms App gives the user the opportunity to search for restaurants, cafes activity providers and attractions closest to them wherever they are in the Cairngorms National Park. It will also tell the user how far away they are from any one business as well as giving them information on the company, Visit Scotland star ratings, contact information to make a booking and a link to the inbuilt Maps App giving them directions to where they are aiming to go. The area has a very effective website www.visitcairngorms.com and social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter but the launch of the new app represents a first real step towards being able to communicate directly with visitors when they are moving around the area.

The I phone app is fed by a database of over 1200 listings and choices for the visitor and, like the website www.visitcairngorms.com, gets the customer to the business fast.

Rankin added. “Both the website and I-phone app are industry leaders in letting the user book a table, rooms or an activity within three clicks or taps. Customers now demand that information is immediately to hand. To date we have been able to provide great detail on the area via our website for what is mostly information gathering pre-departure, but now we have taken a massive leap forward in being able to provide customers live up to date information direct to their i-phones as they travel or visit the area.”

The app will identify the users location and then provide through Google Maps directions and a live map tracking their progress to the selected business. The app also provides directions by car, train or on foot to the chosen business.

The sometimes intermittent mobile signal within the Cairngorms National Park is also not a problem for the Cairngorms App as, explains Alan Rankin: “The app will automatically update when the user is within a mobile signal range in order to ensure that no-one misses out on the special offers and users can also gain the most relevant information to them at any one time.”

The Cairngorms Business Partnership decided to launch the App for the I-phone only to begin with following a study of the area that confirmed there was 5 times as many i-phone based enquiries to their website than all the other providers put together and nearly 15 times as many to that of second placed Blackberry users.

The project is supported by the Cairngorms National Park Authority and the Northern Periphery Programme funded Clim- ATIC Project.

For further information on the I-phone App or the Cairngorms Business Partnership, please contact info@visitcairngorms.com

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Week commencing Friday 1st October 2010 at CairnGorm Mountain

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

WALKING, EXHIBITIONS, AUTUMN COLOURS, PORRIDGE
WHAT’S ON THIS WEEK
Friday 1st October & EVERY DAY until the end of October The Walk @The Top at CairnGorm: 11.20, 12.00, 14.00, 14.40
Join a guide to take you up on the funicular to the Ptarmigan building then out on a guided 90-minute walk to the summit of Cairn Gorm and back, before descending by the funicular. Suitable clothing and footwear required. Meet at Ranger Base 15 minutes prior to departure time. Booking advisable on-line at www.cairngormmountain.org. or in person at the ticket office. Adults £13, Students/seniors £12, Children (6-16) £10. (Includes funicular travel.) Friends of CairnGorm £5. Visitors may only exit the Ptarmigan building when on one of these walks.

Wednesday 6th October – The UK’s Highest Porridge Breakfast: 10.30am – 12 noon
At the Ptarmigan Restaurant, enjoy a hearty bowl of porridge at the UK’s highest restaurant for a donation to Mary’s Meals, a Scottish charity feeding 4m. needy children across the world.

Base Station Refurbishment – for the next week.
The Base Station is closed at present. The Ticket Office has relocated to the Ranger Base. Entry to the funicular through the lower doors (leading to the toilets) and up the back stairs.

Website Survey
We would love your comments regarding our website. Please can you take a moment to fill out this 5 minute http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SWBNLVC

Also every day
Exhibitions 10.00am – 4.30pm
Moving Mountain Exhibition –LAST CHANCE TO SEE!
Wild, vibrant abstracts in acrylic, oil and charcoal. Large and small works for sale by local artist Sheena Wilson plus

Lost – Hands Reunited 
A glove sculpture work in progress and an opportunity to find long-lost ski gloves! In the T bar until 4th October. Free.

The Big Freeze Exhibition
Photographs from last winter is on display in part of the T Bar and on the stairs up to it as well as in various other locations. Many of the pictures are for sale.

Walk Up, Train Down
Visitors can enjoy 90 minutes of rewarding walking up one of our self-guided paths, enter the Ptarmigan top station, before continuing their walk or purchasing a down only train ticket. (Dogs may come down on the train for a small charge). Appropriate clothing/footwear advised.

Camera Obscura
This free attraction is located in the Mountain Garden near the Base Station and enables visitors to see 360-degree real-time views of the surrounding landscape.

The Igloo
Get the kids to have a go at building the new all-year igloo in the Base Station.

Shopping
Look out for great clothing, walking essentials, fabulous gifts and accessories in our shops. Don’t forget our Ptarmigan 16-year-old malt whisky in full 75cl bottles and miniatures.

Eating and drinking
Home-baking every day in our restaurant and cafe bar and hot meals featuring locally sourced ingredients in the mountain-top restaurant.

Wildlife this week
Family groups of Ptarmigan are spreading out. Snow Bunting can be seen on the summits and Red Grouse can be seen on the lower moors up to 800m. Meadow Pipit are in flocks of 30-40+ and Black Grouse can be seen regularly during early morning on the link road.

COMING SOON
Saturday 9th October – The Charmer 12-mile adventure running and cycling relay – 11.00am
Come and watch competitors at the start and finish of this race in the car park. In aid of Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland. To participate contact events@chss.org.uk www.thecharmer.org

Thursday 14th, 21st, 28th October – Search & Rescue Demo’s with Benny & Maudy – 11.30am
Meet at the Ranger Base for a one hour demonstration of a mountain rescue with Benny and his rescue dog, Maudy. Come dressed for the weather. Free but donations to SARDA welcome.

16th and 17th October – Scotland’s Ski & Snowboard Show at Glasgow SECC
Come and visit all your favourite Scottish Ski Resorts on Stand 67. Packed with everything you could need for the winter season, the show will provide the opportunity to research and book your winter break and purchase all of your ski and snowboarding equipment from the best retailers around – all at exclusive show prices! As well as this, you can grab a cold beer from the log cabin apres-ski bar, listen to live music and watch some of the world’s best professional ski and snowboarders take part in the Freestyle Jumps Show! Book your tickets now and quote SSSScairn promo code to get a 2 for 1 discount. Book Ski Show Tickets

MOUNTAIN WEATHER OUTLOOK
Friday 1st October: Wind S 50mph with gusts up to 90mph easing, easing late in the day. Widespread rain and cloud, little sun. Temp at 900m 7C.
Saturday 2nd October: Wind S 25mph with gusts up to 50mph. A few brief heavy showers but sunshine at times. Temp at 900m 6C.
Outlook: Very unsettled conditions with frequent periods of strong to gale force winds, rain and cloud often covering higher areas. Fairly mild temperatures.

OPENING TIMES
Every day: Ticket Office (In the Ranger Base) and Cas Bar will be open at 10.00am. The first public train up will be at 10.20am, with the last train up at 4.00pm (last down at 4.30pm).

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What’s on this week at CairnGorm Mountain

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

WALKING, EXHIBITIONS, AUTUMN COLOURS, SEASON PASSES

Friday 24th September & EVERY DAY – The Walk @The Top at CairnGorm: 11.20, 12.00, 14.00, 14.40
Join a guide to take you up on the funicular to the Ptarmigan building then out on a guided 90-minute walk to the summit of Cairn Gorm and back, before descending by the funicular. Suitable clothing and footwear required. Meet at Ranger Base 15 minutes prior to departure time. Booking advisable on-line at www.cairngormmountain.org. or in person at the ticket office. Adults £13, Students/seniors £12, Children (6-16) £10. (Includes funicular travel.) Friends of CairnGorm £5. Visitors may only exit the Ptarmigan building when on one of these walks.

Snowsports Season Ticket Application forms for 2010/2011
Get your application and photo in this week before the price goes up on 1st October. Download it at: http://www.cairngormmountain.co.uk/snow-sports-at-cairngorm-mountain .

Tuesday 28th September for approximately one week – Base Station Refurbishment.
During this time the Base Station will be closed. Ticket Office will relocate to the Ranger Base. Entry to the funicular through the lower doors (leading to the toilets) and up the back stairs.

Website Survey
We would love your comments regarding our website. Please can you take a moment to fill out this 5 minute http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SWBNLVC

Also every day
Exhibitions 10.00am – 4.30pm
Moving Mountain Exhibition –EXTENDED TO 4th OCTOBER!
Wild, vibrant abstracts in acrylic, oil and charcoal. Large and small works for sale by local artist Sheena Wilson plus Lost – Hands reunited – a glove sculpture work in progress and an opportunity to find long-lost ski gloves! In the T bar until 4th October. Free.

The Big Freeze Exhibition
Photographs from last winter is on display in part of the T Bar and on the stairs up to it as well as in various other locations. Many of the pictures are for sale.

Walk Up, Train Down
For an exhilarating half day, visitors can enjoy 90 minutes of rewarding walking up one of our self-guided paths, enter the Ptarmigan top station, before continuing their walk or purchasing a down only train ticket. (Dogs may come down on the train for a small charge). Appropriate clothing and footwear advised.

Camera Obscura
This free attraction is located in the Mountain Garden near the Base Station and enables visitors to see 360-degree real-time views of the surrounding landscape.

The Igloo
Get the kids to have a go at building the new all-year igloo in the Base Station.

Shopping
Look out for great clothing ranges, walking essentials, fabulous gifts and accessories and our latest exclusive CairnGorm buff in the Mountain Shop and the Shop at the Top. Don’t forget our Ptarmigan 16-year-old malt whisky available in full 75cl bottles and 5cl miniatures.

Eating and drinking
Home-baking every day in our restaurant and cafe bar and hot meals featuring locally sourced ingredients in the mountain-top restaurant.

Wildlife this week
Family groups of Ptarmigan are still around. Snow Bunting can be seen above 900m and Red Grouse can be seen on the lower moors. Meadow Pipit can be seen in flocks of 30-40+. The garden is becoming very autumnal in colour.

COMING SOON
Wednesday 6th October – The UK’s Highest Porridge Breakfast: 10.30am – 12 noon
At the Ptarmigan Restaurant, enjoy a hearty bowl of porridge at the UK’s highest restaurant for a donation to Mary’s Meals, a Scottish charity feeding 4m. needy children across the world.

Thursday 14th, 21st, 28th October – Search & Rescue Demo’s with Benny & Maudy – 11.30am
Meet at the Ranger Base for a one hour demonstration of a mountain rescue with Benny and his rescue dog, Maudy. Come dressed for the weather. Free but donations to SARDA welcome.

16th and 17th October – Scotland’s Ski & Snowboard Show at Glasgow SECC
Come and visit all your favourite Scottish Ski Resorts on Stand 67. Packed with everything you could need for the winter season, the show will provide the opportunity to research and book your winter break and purchase all of your ski and snowboarding equipment from the best retailers around – all at exclusive show prices! As well as this, you can grab a cold beer from the log cabin apres-ski bar, listen to live music and watch some of the world’s best professional ski and snowboarders take part in the Freestyle Jumps Show! Book your tickets now and quote SSSScairn promo code to get a 2 for 1 discount. Book Ski Show Tickets

MOUNTAIN WEATHER OUTLOOK
Friday 25th September: Wind N 40mph with gusts of 55mph easing, easing later to 25mph. Hail and snow flurries. Cloudy but some bright sunshine. Temp at 900m 2C.
Saturday 26th September: Wind N 20mph. Snow flurries and cloud free skies at times. Temp at 900m 0C or 1C.
Outlook: Fine weather will persist until next week. Extensive bright sun but cloudy at times. Winds will fall but will be cold with widespread frost in valleys and higher summits.

OPENING TIMES
Every day: Ticket Office and Cas Bar will be open at 10.00am. The first public train up will be at 10.20am, with the last train up at 4.00pm (last down at 4.30pm). UPDATES: Watch the web-site for updates www.cairngormmountain.org. You can also follow us on Twitter at cairngormmtn. Watch out for our latest offers on www.vouchercloud.com

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Week commencing Thursday 26th August 2010 at CairnGorm Mountain

Monday, August 30th, 2010

FINAL FLING AT CAIRNGORM MOUNTAIN
WHAT’S ON THIS WEEK
Thursday 26th August – Highland Fling Ceilidh Night 6.30pm – 10.00pm
Cloud free skies are forecast for today and there are still some places left for tonight’s ceilidh – your last chance this year to come and join us for a night of delicious Scottish food, a beautiful sunset, and dancing to a lively ceilidh band in the Ptarmigan, the highest restaurant in the UK. Adult £24.50, Child (12 or under) £15.90, Family (2 adults & 2 children aged 12 or under)£65.50. Prices include funicular travel, a 3-course Highland buffet and dancing. Booking is essential so call us on 01479 861341 or book online.

Thursday 26th August & EVERY DAY – The Walk @The Top at CairnGorm: 11.20, 12.00, 14.00, 14.40
Join a guide to take you up on the funicular to the Ptarmigan building then out on a guided 90-minute walk to the summit of Cairn Gorm and back, before descending by the funicular. Suitable clothing and footwear required. Meet at Ranger Base 15 minutes prior to departure time. Booking advisable on-line at www.cairngormmountain.org. or in person at the ticket office. Adults £13, Students/seniors £12, Children (6-16) £10. (Includes funicular travel.) Friends of CairnGorm £5. Visitors may only exit the Ptarmigan building when on one of these walks. Please note that, in view of the popularity of these walks, the guided walks to the summit from the Base Station scheduled for Wednesdays and Sundays in August have been cancelled.

Also every day
Exhibitions Red Earth Children is presenting Art with a Heart, an exhibition of Scottish landscape paintings by Sarah Cairncross and coastal abstract photographic prints by Simon Nicholas White in part of the T Bar gallery. This will be on display throughout August to raise awareness of, and funds for, HIV/AIDS afflicted children in rural Uganda with 50% of the proceeds of sales going to them.

The Big Freeze exhibition of staff photographs from last winter is on display in part of the T Bar gallery and on the stairs up to it as well as in various other locations around the Day Lodge. Many of the pictures are for sale.
The Spirit of Speyside exhibition of this year’s photographic competition winners sponsored by Benromach whisky is on display in the Base station until 13th September.

Walk Up, Train Down
For an exhilarating half day, visitors can enjoy 90 minutes of rewarding walking up one of our self-guided paths, enter the Ptarmigan top station via the walkers’ entrance and visit the restaurant, before continuing their walk or purchasing a down only train ticket. (Dogs may come down on the train for a small charge). Appropriate clothing and footwear advised.

Camera Obscura: This attraction is located in the Mountain Garden near the Base Station and enables visitors to see 360-degree real-time views of the surrounding landscape projected onto a table in front of them. Entry is free and it is open every day.

The Igloo: Get the kids to have a go at building the new all-year igloo in the Base Station.

The Skidoo: Fancy getting aboard a snowmobile in amongst the snow? Our new photopoint in the top station provides a great opportunity for you to be seen aboard one of these vehicles against a snowy CairnGorm Mountain back drop. Free to funicular passengers.

Shopping: Look out for great clothing ranges, walking essentials, fabulous gifts and accessories and our latest exclusive CairnGorm buff in the Mountain Shop and the Shop at the Top. Don’t forget our Ptarmigan 16-year-old malt whisky available in full 75cl bottles and 5cl miniatures.

Eating and drinking: Home-baking every day in our restaurant and cafe bar and hot meals featuring locally sourced ingredients in the restaurant. ‘The Chocolate Mountain’, a huge concoction of hot chocolate, marshmallows and cream beckons in both locations.

Wildlife this week: Ptarmigan (starting to change colour) and Snow Bunting can be seen above 900m. Dotterel, still on the plateau, will soon leave. Around car park level you may see Pied Wagtail and there are still a few Ring Ouzel around Coire Na Ciste. Red Grouse are around the lower moors. The Azure Hawker Dragonfly can be seen in the bog next to the Coire Na Ciste car park. Deer Sedge is turning the hill golden and all Heathers are in bloom too. In the mountain garden Oxeye daisies, Bog Asphodel and Starry Saxifrage are still flowering.

SNOWSPORTS SEASON TICKETS FOR 2010/11
Now on sale. An application form pdf download is available on the right hand side of this link page. http://www.cairngormmountain.co.uk/snow-sports-at-cairngorm-mountain

MOUNTAIN WEATHER OUTLOOK
Thursday 26th August: Wind direction will vary, 10mph or less. Scattered heavy showers perhaps in afternoon. Cloud lifting above the summit by the afternoon, with only patches at 1100m. Patchwork of bright sunshine will develop. Visibility excellent/superb; Temp at 900m 5C rising to 8C
Friday 27th August: Wind NW 10-15mph. Heavy showers developing. Extensive cloud and patchy sunshine. Visibility generally excellent, but poor in rain. Temp at 900m 5C.
Outlook: Continuing chilly on the mountains, and also in valleys overnight. A ridge of high pressure brings a period of showery northwesterly winds and a good deal of fine weather across all mountain areas.

OPENING TIMES
Every day: Ticket Office and Cas Bar will be open at 10.00am. The first public train up will be at 10.20am, with the last train up at 4.20pm (last down at 5.00pm). UPDATES: Watch the web-site for updates www.cairngormmountain.org. You can also follow us on Twitter at cairngormmtn.

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Week commencing Thursday 5th August 2010 at CairnGorm Mountain

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

CEILIDHS – WALKING – EXHIBITIONS – CAMERA OBSCURA
WHAT’S ON THIS WEEK
Thursday 5th August – Highland Fling Ceilidh Night 6.30pm – 10.00pm
There are still some places left so come and join us for a night of delicious Scottish food followed by dancing to a lively ceilidh band in the Ptarmigan, the highest restaurant in the UK. Adult £24.50, Child (12 or under) £15.90, Family (2 adults & 2 children aged 12 or under)£65.50. Prices include funicular travel, a 3-course Highland buffet and dancing. Booking is essential as places fill up fast. Call us on 01479 861341 or book online. Ceilidhs take place every Thursday in August.

Thursday 5th August & EVERY DAY – The Walk @The Top at CairnGorm: 11.20, 12.00, 14.00, 14.40
Join a guide to take you up on the funicular railway to the Ptarmigan building then out on a guided 90-minute interpretive walk to the summit of Cairn Gorm and back before descending by funicular. Suitable clothing and footwear required. Meet at Ranger Base 15 mins prior to departure time. Booking advisable on-line at www.cairngormmountain.org. or in person at the ticket office. Adults £13, Students/seniors £12, Children (6-16) £10. (Includes funicular travel.) Friends of CairnGorm £5. This walk is part of a trial with walks available daily until 31st October. Visitors may only exit the Ptarmigan building when taking part in one of these walks. Please note that, in view of the popularity of these walks, the guided walks to the summit from the Base Station scheduled for Wednesdays and Sundays in August have been cancelled.

Sunday 8th August – Glenfiddich whisky tasting in the Base Station 12noon – 4pm FREE

Also every day
Walk Up, Train Down
For an exhilarating half day, visitors can enjoy 90 minutes of rewarding walking up one of our self-guided paths, enter the Ptarmigan top station via the walkers’ entrance and visit the restaurant, before continuing their walk or purchasing a down only train ticket. (Dogs may come down on the train for a small charge). Appropriate clothing and footwear advised.

Camera Obscura: This attraction is located in the Mountain Garden near the Base Station and enables you to see 360-degree real-time views of the surrounding landscape projected onto a table in front of you. Entry is free and it is open every day.

Exhibitions: Red Earth Children is presenting Art with a Heart, an exhibition of Scottish landscape paintings by Sarah Cairncross and coastal abstract photographic prints by Simon Nicholas White in part of the T Bar gallery. This will be on display throughout August with 50% of the proceeds of sales going to raise money for and awareness of HIV/AIDS afflicted children in rural Uganda.

The Big Freeze Exhibition of photographs (and a DVD) of the exceptional winter here is on display in part of the T Bar gallery and on the stairs up to it as well as in various other locations around the Day Lodge. Many of the pictures are for sale.

The Igloo: Get the kids to have a go at building the new all-year igloo in the Base Station.
Shopping: Look out for great clothing ranges, walking essentials, fabulous gifts and accessories and our latest exclusive CairnGorm buff in the Mountain Shop and the Shop at the Top.

Eating and drinking: Home-baking available every day in our restaurant and cafe bar and hot meals in the restaurant. Look out for ‘The Chocolate Mountain’ too – are you ready to tackle it?

Wildlife this week: Ptarmigan and Dotterel with their nearly full-size chicks can be seen above 900m as well as Snow Bunting feeding their second brood. Around car park level and in the Lower Coire Cas you may see Pied Wagtail and Ring Ouzel. Deer Sedge is gradually turning, giving the hill a distinctive golden colour. Ox eye daisies, Bog Asphodel, Meadow Vetchling, Tufted Vetch, Bell Heather and Harebell are flowering in the mountain garden and Devil’s Scabious is about to flower. Ring Ouzel chicks and a stoat have also been spotted there. There are still snow patches on the headwall and in the Ptarmigan bowl – the longest lasting for a decade.

SNOWSPORTS SEASON TICKETS FOR 2010/11
Now on sale. An application form pdf download is available on the right hand side of this link page. http://www.cairngormmountain.co.uk/snow-sports-at-cairngorm-mountain

MOUNTAIN WEATHER OUTLOOK
Thursday 5th August: Wind NW 10-15mph. Frequent heavy showers. Widespread cloud from 650m rising and clearing later. Some sunshine with good visibility but poor in cloud. Temp at 900m 7-9C. Friday 6th August: Wind variable 15mph. Bursts of rain later. Patchy high cloud clearing in the middle of the day then reforming. Some sunshine with good visibility, deteriorating in rain. Temp at 900m 7-11C.
Outlook: Light winds and showers, some thundery.

OPENING TIMES
Every day: Ticket Office and Cas Bar will be open at 10.00am. The first public train up will be at 10.20am, with the last train up at 4.20pm (last down at 5.00pm).

UPDATES: Watch the web-site for updates www.cairngormmountain.org. You can also follow us on Twitter at cairngormmtn.

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The Cross In Kingussie awarded Scottish Restaurant with Rooms of the Year 2009

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Scottish Restaurant with Rooms of the Year 2009

Scottish Restaurant with Rooms of the Year 2009

Congratulations to the Cross at Kingussie who won the “Scottish Restaurant with Rooms of the Year” 2009 at the Scottish Hotel Awards in Glasgow.
This is the second time owners David and Katie Young have won the award having won it back in 2004.
The Cross runs many special offers for breaks in Spring and Autumn with great Winter weekend rates too.  More Info here
The Cross is situated in the village of Kingussie famous for its legendary Shinty team.  Watching a game is a must.  See the fixtures list for Kingussie, Newtonmore and Kincraig here
Kingussie the village mentioned in the Oscar winning movie Slumdog Millionaire is a great base for year round activities in the famous Aviemore and Cairngorms area. 

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