Intermediate level skiing advise in Scotland

[kiwifraser]

I'm heading up on Tues/ Wed this week, and need some advise on where to go please. Winds are meant to westerly, if that makes any difference.

I've skied Cairngorm and the Lecht last year when we were staying in Aviemore last year, and enjoyed both.

Glencoe and Glenshee are closest to me for a day trip (and Nevis is not much further), so I'll highly likely choose one of these for this week.

I'm ideally looking for Intermediate Skiing runs for the first day of my season.

[kiwifraser]

I need to balance a good day on the slopes, versus likely driving times from Glasgow to get there.

Glencoe: 1hr 45min

Glenshee: 2hrs

Nevis: 2hr 15min

Cairngorm: 3hrs

Lecht 3hrs

[kiwifraser]

Thanks for the comments. It appears Glenshee is the one for for Tuesday.

I'm watching them all on FB and Winterhighland for weather and snow conditions. The good news is that it looks good everywhere, so hopefully a nice long season. 

Last season I had 3 days at CG and 1 day at the Lecht but spent most of my time messing around with Mrs Kiwi and young family who all learnt to Ski last season on learner/ green/ blue runs.

I'm perfectly happy in powder, but don't find skiing on ice enjoyable at all. I really just want an easy first day on the slopes by myself to get back into the groove. I could ski fairly well 15 years ago when I worked as a patroller/ lift spinner back in NZ, but don't want to be heading straight for the red/ black runs after being out of the game for a while (and being a decade less fit than the last time I was throwing myself down cliffs).

In past times I could board reasonably well too. I bought a (hopefully) decent board/ boots on Friday from ebay, but it's not arriving till Wednesday this week sadly. Plenty of time left to play with that given it's only December