Scotland

The key funicular railway at Scotland’s Cairngorm Mountain may be working again before the New Year, or early in 2025, public body Highlands & Islands Enterprise (HIE) which owns the centre has announced.

November so far has been exceptionally warm and dry in the Scottish Highlands, but the weather can change quickly and Scottish skiers and boarders remain eternally optimistic.

The Scotsman newspaper is reporting that Scottish ski centre Glencoe could get a £22 million gondola as part of a huge overhaul.

After weeks of increasingly cold and stormy weather since the summer solstice, blamed on the jet stream, Scottish ski centres have reported snowfall on high slopes this morning.

Although there’s some hope that “winter’s not over” it looks like skiing in Scotland over the upcoming Easter holiday fortnight will be largely restricted to small areas maintained by all-weather snowmaking machines, or limited high-altitude touring.