Backcountry Ski/ Snowboard Trip - Scotland

A blue sky powder day in the Highlands of Scotland - off piste snowboarding and skiing miles from the lifts near Ben Lawers

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• backcountry
• snowboard
• trip
• heavy
• snow
• scotland
• ski
• powder
• avalanche
• off
• piste
• ben
• nevis
• glenshee
• cairngorm
• glencoe
• lecht
• deep
• drift
• extreme
• gully
• christmas

[highcalamity]

Guys, the whole point of this video is that we don't have big hills or a lot of snow in Scotland - but it's still good fun. I've skied and boarded all over the world, and if you can't enjoy a beautiful day in the Scottish hills, there's something wrong with you. As krazykarzykripple says, if you can cope with the high winds, boiler plate and massive sastrugi which we get over here, you can board anywhere! :)

[kendrawhisp]

wow thats hard work, how long did it take you to ski down?

[highcalamity]

About 20 minutes - but about 3 hours to get up!

[highcalamity]

New music now sorted - pretty good actually!

[highcalamity]

Sorry people - audio has been disabled. You would have thought that given that "Lucky Man" by The Verve is now 11 years old that the record company/ management would be a bit more liberal with the rights issue, but there you go. I sincerely hope they have a terrible 2009.

[wilddrinker1442]

thats scotland?

[highcalamity]

Sure is!

[greavesygreaves]

Who needs to go abroad when you get days like that in Scotland!

[mlittle]

Lovely, just lovely! Where was this?

[Midgmo]

@mlittle Looks like the cairngorms

[seanski44]

great stuff guys, came upon this via the related videos (mine's the one that seems to be top of the list of related vids to yours) and really enjoyed it! - Cheers

[KevinKaya]

Well said, these people dont get the point.. going to France costs hundres of pounds and you if you dont stay at least a week it's not worth it, if you live in UK you can drive up there in a day and just be there for a few days, and it's something different as well!

[MrMinkStar]

Have you tried Furano in Japan? The powder there was incredible when I went. There was a point where I was up to my waist, you just gotta know where to go..

[gingermagicman]

Sandboarding.,

[krazykrazykripple]

yhea mate but if u can ski in scotland you can ski anyware in the world even the Sahara Desert.

[FProductions]

never ski in scotland, its the worst place for skiing or snowboarding ever, you'd have more fun in the Sahara Desert.

[skateboard469]

@mathpowerchampion i agree nw america has best skiing cause i live there but if u fall it deep powder it sucks balls uses so much energy to get out