Still here! 

 It’s August already, another month of change on the mountain. The cloudberries are ripening at the moment, the heather is just about to bloom and the midges have eventually woken up. Over the next few weeks we start to experience cooler nights, and it is not unusual to get a sprinkling of snow in early September. Incidentally the final snow on the Head Wall melted on Thursday 24^th July. I apologise that I have not been “on  the Blog”  over the past few weeks;  we have been catching our breath from last season and preparing for the next, as well as  running  our summer business. We have also been somewhat pre-occupied with the transition of the business to public sector ownership. The Highlands and Islands Enterprise are being incredibly supportive, with limited resources and we hope this will lead to a stronger business model on Cairn Gorm in the future. It’s very much business as usual, we tend to be busy on sunny days and quiet when it rains. Both May and June were reasonable trading months but we experienced two really wet weeks in July when numbers are normally very high. We have already hosted a number of weddings and the evening fine dinning and ceilidh nights are as popular as ever. Being open seven days a week and 3 evenings a week means that it is still a very busy time for the staff, but the main difference from the winter is that the working day tends to start later and finish later. 

A programme of fence repairs and tow maintenance is ongoing and we have a major Funicular service scheduled for November this year when we will be running our Christmas Market again in the T Bar during the closure. I have attached some pictures below of on going maintenance taken by Peter Mallet who works with our ranger team.

Bob