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An Irish Ski Resort
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Kiltiernan ? Went there before my first ever ski holiday. My very first time on skis and if I hadn’t booked already it would have put me off. Would be different now that I can ski, but falling on that stuff ain’t nice. It bloody hurts.
Having serious ski withdrawal this year. Would be great if we could ski here, but I can’t see it being feasible in any shape or form.
Went there for a refresher a few years ago after 10 years out of the game, I had been snowboarding previously a fair bit while living in France on Erasmus. Caught an edge and almost broke my tailbone. It’s like falling on concrete. Luckily I was recovered for my snowboarding holiday in Canada the following week, real snow is much more forgiving both of technique and when falling on it! Hopefully get back out there next year
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In terms of terrain, the slopes down to Lough Tay and Luggala are just about ideal as nice boarder pic above shows. Been down a few times left of the gate. Hard slog back up but worth it. There's some excellent stuff on youtube from 2010 ad 2018 I think. I've also been down the 11th fairway in Delgany golf club which is a blue run but way better than golf.
Problem with most of the Wicklow Mts is pitch. Apart from a few spots, the only places steep enough are cliffs or scree.
Kilternan SC is still running.
There was talk (maybe even planning application?) for huge indoor ski centre near Newtownmountkenedy at the height of the tiger
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I have done a fair bit of snowboarding and skiing on the Wicklow Mountains over the years. Lug would probably be best in terms of the amount of days it has snow cover each year. Here are two photos from back in January 2010 up by Luggala and at the carpark for Djouce. And no... thankfully that car was not mine and yes, it did remain there snowed in for several weeks.
Was up there that time myself, unfortunately my photos don't do it the justice yours do.
I remember that freelander well, had never realised some of them were only 2wd.
It was one of most surreal times snowboarding, sitting on the hill, looking at lough tay, blue skies, absolute peace and just floating on Irish powder.
You could probably count on 2 hands the amount of people up there and remember we were saying the rest of the country could have been falling apart and we wouldn't have been the wiser, absolute heaven.
On another occasion think 2013, myself and my brother hiked as far as white hill and boarded back to Ballinastoe carpack but snow cover was less than ideal and compacted hardpack once back on the fire roads.0 -
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I have done a fair bit of snowboarding and skiing on the Wicklow Mountains over the years. Lug would probably be best in terms of the amount of days it has snow cover each year. Here are two photos from back in January 2010 up by Luggala and at the carpark for Djouce. And no... thankfully that car was not mine and yes, it did remain there snowed in for several weeks.
Incredible photos if only it was like that every year!0 -
It's theoretically possible to create one, but it would need low temperatures combined with low-ish air humidity. The rest would be up to snow cannons and huge pile of money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowmaking#Snowmaking_guns 0 -
arctictree wrote: »We went up there once and it was closed because of snow!
Now that’s irony Alanis Morissette
. Reminds me of the time during the heavy snow here a few years ago when we were flying out on the Saturday morning to Austria. It was touch and go as to whether we’d get away at all. Five hour delay at the airport, but we made it thankfully. 0 -
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