Glenshee Ski Centre profits from cold snap

AS PARTS of the country ground to a standstill during the cold snap one of the coldest places in Scotland has been enjoying a mini boom.

Braemar has endured sub-zero temperatures for weeks but the weather has allowed Glenshee Ski Centre to make its best start to the season in a decade.

The centre has attracted 26,000 skiers and snowboarders since opening on Christmas Eve and 12,000 in the past week alone.

Director Stewart Davidson said last night: “It’s been excellent. This time last year we were closed. It was January 21 before we opened.

“At the beginning of week, with the schools closed, we certainly got more kids here than we'd have expected, it impacts on everyone and generates a bigger income all around. It’s glorious today – blue skies – it’s like being in the Alps.”

John MacPherson, chairman of Braemar Community Council, said the area could not have wished for a better start to the ski season.

“You don’t expect this weather until January,” said Mr MacPherson, who works as a ski instructor at Glenshee. “It’s been a fantastic start to the season and the spin-off is the benefit to the shops and hotels for the whole local economy.”

Andrew Shore, owner of Callater Lodge, Glenshee Road, said: “From a business point of view it is great. When there is snow there are skiers.”

Forecasters are predicting a high of zero in the village over the next five days.

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