Monthly Archives: January 2013

Skiing up Cairn an Tuirc

I went with the Scotts ( that is Scott Burnett and Scott Muir not as in the Scotts nationality) up towards Carin an Tuirc to hunt out some decent snow, it had snowed hefty amounts recently but with heavy winds so there was a little bit of care needed in finding decent safe snow.

We got to the top in some pretty strong winds that made the idea of going across the top of the plateau to have a look into Coire Kander not that an appealing idea.

We managed to find some decent snow which was on the SW face of the hill and we did one lap of it and decided that it was that good there was not real need to look any further, so did another lap of it.

Mr Muir in his normal ‘ripping it up’ fashion.  That was until you hit some thing that was lurking under the snow, as there was now base you would be happily skiing along then all of a sudden end up clipping something and falling over ( well that is my excuse anyway! Me below eating a face full of snow)

All in all we did four laps of the hill which was a good leg work out and a great fun ski.  On the way back we found a shallow gully to ski down literally to the car.  Great fun  the rest of the pictures can be seen by clicking on this

Happy First Birthday Fin!

Not sure where that year went, but Fin is now 1!  Happy Birthday little man.  We all went around to Scott and Anna’s, Scott have been busy making a snow ramp for some sledging action in the back garden.

Ellis Loved it and i think we are going to do a lot more sledging in Gap this year!

Thanks for alot of fun Burnetts.

The birthday boy with Daddy and Uncle Paul.  the rest of the pictures can be seen in the gallery page linked top right.

New Year’s Eve Week in Aviemore

We managed to book a great house in Aviemore for the week over the New Year Period.  There was loads of snow in the hills and the Smiths, Ryan, Rich, Lorraine, Hugh and Hannah went to play!

On some days Lara went out skiing and I took Ellis out to play, the weather was not that nice all the time ( as can be expected in Scotland in December) and Aviemore has a great indoor play area for young kids.  On the second day we had a weather front that came in bringing really high winds and hi temperatures.  this shut down the ski hill so thankfully we had plan B with us in the form of MTBs.  We went to the local bike shop who pointed us in the direction of some good trails which happened to be literally behind our house

Rich and I had a days climbing which was pretty un successful ( i forgot crampons) so half way up where we were going the snow got too hard and i was not able to kick my feet in so we had to bail

Ellis was a great fun, and was not shy with all the new faces, and would happily play with everyone and generally run around ( usually with no clothes on, not sure where this habit comes from)

New Years Eve came and we had a great dinner and then spent the rest of the night trying to pickle ourselves with vast quantities of Gin and Tonic playing stupid games that usually ended in embarrassment

Don’t ask!

The bad weather stripped a lot of the snow so unfortunately skiing was little limited, there was still enough to get a reasonable days skiing for Scotland.

With limited skiing more biking was done, Me rich and Lara rode up the Lairig Ghru and back.  For anyone who likes a little bit of technical riding and amazing single track, I would really recommend this ride, it is a belter!

Ellis had a lot of stone throwing tuition this week, she is getting good at throwing stones into water now, and seems to like picking ones that are huge and she can just about lift….  Thanks all for coming up / across for a great fun week.  all the rest of the pictures can be seen by clicking on this.