Scottish winters in the past
Sep 18th 2006, 2:24 pm
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Re: Scottish winters in the past
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Sep 18th 2006, 2:26 pm
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Re: Scottish winters in the past
Originally Posted by TrishB
I remember when I worked in a Day Hospital in Edinburgh with older people that they said they used to go skiing on the Pentlands. One of them brought in old photos of, yes, people skiing on REAL SNOW on the Pentlands!!!
Sep 18th 2006, 3:46 pm
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Re: Scottish winters in the past
Originally Posted by Biiiiink
I've done that, well, a bit of real snow on top of the matting at Hillend, does that count?!
Sep 18th 2006, 6:52 pm
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Re: Scottish winters in the past
Originally Posted by TrishB
I remember when I worked in a Day Hospital in Edinburgh with older people that they said they used to go skiing on the Pentlands. One of them brought in old photos of, yes, people skiing on REAL SNOW on the Pentlands!!!
Sep 18th 2006, 9:12 pm
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Re: Scottish winters in the past
Originally Posted by or4ngecrush
for any of those guys who don't know hillend, it's a "dry" ski slope. lol
Sep 19th 2006, 6:58 pm
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Re: Scottish winters in the past
Originally Posted by Biiiiink
Dry? It's never dry up there, it's always gale force 10 and bucketing it down
Actually yeah she's spot on......lol.........
