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An interesting start to your day from keys, going through windows and guns! Breakfast was quite a spread and some spectacular country views on the way before going up in the mountains! Definitely worth doing this trip as the views are amazing and looks like a nice funicular ride. Even better that even with a little bit of cloud cover you could still see a lot. Looking forward to more on this!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
I just can't get my head around the idea of a 7 month ski season, in Scotland! Wow!
It amazes me too but the highland mountains have quite high elevations to them. I remember being in Chamonix France in the French Alps in 2013 and I experienced snow falling for the first time in my life in May! It was surreal!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
Wow! What views from the ride up in the funicular and then from up top. Gorgeous! I hadn't thought about skiing in Scotland. I'm thinking Luke and I need to visit some place where we can do a funicular ride.
It amazes me too but the highland mountains have quite high elevations to them. I remember being in Chamonix France in the French Alps in 2013 and I experienced snow falling for the first time in my life in May! It was surreal!
See, I'd expect that in the Alps. My parents lived in the Rockies and we were there for snow in August, and June, July. It's that I don't think of Scotland as having the weather for snow across that many months.
See, I'd expect that in the Alps. My parents lived in the Rockies and we were there for snow in August, and June, July. It's that I don't think of Scotland as having the weather for snow across that many months.
Just having my first snowfall in May was what did it. I didn't know you could get snow in the Rockies in the summer months, but if you go up high enough and probably around 10K feet, you'll get that regardless the time of the year, but still baffles me!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
Now you see why we in Montana don't suggest visiting us until July 4th. At least by then the snow is gone and usually we are still wet enough that the fire season isn't too bad yet. This year was the exception. You would have wanted to visit in June and be gone by July 4th as we were already getting the smoke from the fires further west.
Oh my goodness! You are really not making me want to visit Montana full stop, and yet I've heard so many great things about how beautiful it is.
An interesting start to your day from keys, going through windows and guns!
I know, never a dull moment with us, right?
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Breakfast was quite a spread and some spectacular country views on the way before going up in the mountains! Definitely worth doing this trip as the views are amazing and looks like a nice funicular ride. Even better that even with a little bit of cloud cover you could still see a lot. Looking forward to more on this!
I just can't get my head around the idea of a 7 month ski season, in Scotland! Wow!
That was an exceptional winter, remember. I would say normally the ski season is more likely to finish around February/March, but I am guessing, not being a ski person....
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It amazes me too but the highland mountains have quite high elevations to them. I remember being in Chamonix France in the French Alps in 2013 and I experienced snow falling for the first time in my life in May! It was surreal!
Wow! What views from the ride up in the funicular and then from up top. Gorgeous! I hadn't thought about skiing in Scotland. I'm thinking Luke and I need to visit some place where we can do a funicular ride.
See, I'd expect that in the Alps. My parents lived in the Rockies and we were there for snow in August, and June, July.
I remember driving to Denver and seeing what looked like fresh snowfall on the top of the mountains there in early September. It was such a shock to the system!
Sunday 18 June – part three: admiring the spectacle beneath us!
Sadly, it was lovely out there when we emerged on to the platform at the top of the Cairn Gorm, but the wind soon got up, and it drove us all inside. However, the restaurant here…
… also had the same beautiful views, so we spent ages in here, unable to tear our eyes away from the spectacle beneath us.
Eventually we had to leave, and on the way out, we found this…
We were also given a glimpse of the ski runs outside…
There was also some information about how the funicular works…
Soon our train was on its way up to get us, and if you’re thinking it stopped a bit short, they do this in the summer months, so at the top, people get off and enter the exhibition, and then people returning to the bottom get on higher up. As our driver said on the way down, there’s no way they can do that in the winter months, as people are just too keen to get to their fun!
For a while, we thought we’d have the funicular to ourselves for the return journey, but sadly it wasn’t to be. However, only about another four or six people joined us, which wasn’t bad, and certainly not when you saw how many people were on the one travelling upwards, and waiting at the base station!
Mari and Mark both found themselves a silly photo opportunity…
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Breakfast was quite a spread and some spectacular country views on the way before going up in the mountains! 
Definitely worth doing this trip as the views are amazing and looks like a nice funicular ride. Even better that even with a little bit of cloud cover you could still see a lot. 
Looking forward to more on this!
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It was surreal! 
I'm thinking Luke and I need to visit some place where we can do a funicular ride. 
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You are really not making me want to visit Montana full stop, and yet I've heard so many great things about how beautiful it is. 
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