Any snowsports in Ireland?

last time round it was 40-50cms in some spots, thats better than some resorts have right now!!!

The real value is making yourself a kicker/some other feature and hitting that

Still better than sitting at home watching corrie!!!!!!!!!!



PS possible snow in the east tomorrow!!

There are a few vids up on youtube of lads in the wicklow mountains and somewhere in the southeast trying to do a bit last year.
Admire the efforts but can't imagine that the result was worth it.
Also one of some lad who built a little jump in his garden:D

Even if we got enough snow, I don't reckon our mountains are long enough or steep enough to give you a decent run

Just noticed this thread. There is some serious snow cover in the Djouce/Sally gap area of Wicklow. At a guess, I'd say 50cm as it was snowing constantly for 3 days. Also, normally, snow covered djouce is speckled with gorse. Only with really deep snow is it totally white, which it is now.

Here is a route I'd recommend for skiers/snowboarders. Take the route to the Sally Gap from Kilmacanogue. Park at the entrance to the Luggala estate. The road should be clear to here, but you really need a 4x4. There is then a semi-private road about 2KM long down to Lough Tay/Dan. I'd say that this would make a good skiing/snowboard route. Only problem is getting back up!

Alternative would be to take the same route but walk about 400 yards further on to the forest entrance on the right. You could down ski down to balinastoe woods using the forest walk. Advantage here is that a vehicle could then pick you up again at the bottom. Have fun!!

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jvan wrote: »

Myself and 3 mates went boarding up Djouce mtn. yesterday. The weather was couldy with low visability so we only got one run in. But we went back up again today and it was amazing.

We parked at the Ballinastoe car park and hiked up through the forest track up to the start of the board walk over looking Lough Tay. The powder is amazing, at least 18 inches and more in drifts. We got 4 runs in from the monument down to the Sally Gap road. Really worth the 50min hike up from car park.

We headed back and were able to board all the way on the forest track to the car park bar a couple of flat bits.

If you can get up there it is really worth it, preferably in a 4x4



I have photos but not sure how to upload them

Went up there today for a look- it is truely amazing!! Unfortunately, i dont own my own skis but im going to do it tomorrow on a snowboard (should be interesting!!)
Here are some pics i took of the general area
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055786961

BoardsRanger wrote: »

Went up there today for a look- it is truely amazing!! Unfortunately, i dont own my own skis but im going to do it tomorrow on a snowboard (should be interesting!!)
Here are some pics i took of the general area
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055786961

Hey boardsranger, thats more or less where we were. In your second group of pictures you can see the is trail going through the snow just after the trees up to the monument(black dot on the hill). We hiked up to that a couple of times and back down to the road. Great fun. That freelander has been there a few days and will be there for few more!!!

Amazing photo's

You should try Tonlagee mountain at the wicklow gap. Its 800m high so the snow is probably over 2ft deep there. The only problem is that the snowplough is slow to clear the wicklow gap area. They cleared the road there last year and a load of people snowboarded there.
This vid is from last year there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgTGtCMRpRQ

amazing picture's, really wanted to get up there again today.
It's still hard to believe it's Ireland

fair play on the photos, and we thought last feb was a '100 year storm'!!!

Maybe this will happen every year!!!!