BBC News - Kilted skiers set CairnGorm 'world record' for kilts on the piste

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The Cairngorms are bloody freezing at the best of times. I learned to ski there in the days of lace up boots and wooden skis. Bloody miserable I was.
I wonder if they were True Scots? And did they get piste after?

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Load a CRAP

You just know that the people behind the Cairngorms Revolt Against Pylons (CRAP) just have to have a sense of humour, but there's nothing funny about what they're fighting - the obliteration of vast tracts of beautiful Scotland by mega-pylons.

Power company lawyers arguing in favour of giant pylons through the Cairngorms National Park are having their fees paid by us, the electricity consumer - they're picking up an estimated £10,000 a day for appearing at the Beauly-Denny inquiry. That cash comes out of OUR electricity bills - companies have even demanded a price increase to pay for their inquiry costs.

Cairngorms Revolt Against Pylons (C.R.A.P.) is fighting to keep pylons out of the National Park. Pylons that are 7-times bigger than you see on the A9.

Campaigners argue that they should - Bury the pylons - London can do it...

In less than two years London has spent £70million ripping down 52 giant pylons obstructing work on the 2012 Olympic Games site and burying the cable in a 12km tunnel. Beauly-Denny power companies have been caught time and again exaggerating the cost of putting power cables underground - increasingly standard practice in Europe, the USA and Australia. Scottish and Southern Energy reported profits last year of £1billion.

THE OLYMPICS WILL LAST JUST TWO WEEKS.
PYLONS IN THE CAIRNGORMS WILL LAST FOR OUR LIFE TIMES.

To find out more, go here - where you can donate and get your CRAP badges!

The Cairngorms are a very remote part of Scotland. Very bleak and desolate even in summer and dangerous and gloomy in winter. They don't deserve pylons the size of office buildings cluttering up their vista. They wouldn't approve windfarms in this environment, why electricity pylons?

I have spent a fair bit of time in this area, skiing, hill walking, climbing and cross country skiing. I say no thanks.

Thanks Richard