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Everything in one place
Skiers and snowboarders in the Eastern Cairngorms are to benefit
from a new £900,000 ski centre. The Lecht 2090 centre will give
skiers café, ticket office and equipment hire facilities under the
same roof - before they negotiate the slopes.
Due to be completed in 2004, the centre
will cover 1,200sqm and also cater for summer sports. It will also
introduce on-line equipment booking and road, snow and weather reports
using WAP mobile phone technology.
 
Global warming concerns
James McIntosh, director of The Lecht Ski Company, said the increased
threat of global warming would not affect the busy slopes. "Of course
we realise the climate is changing, but the last three winters have
been some of the most successful seasons ever for The Lecht, and
in 2001 we had the best snow I've ever seen here.
"Since 2000, we have also been
much more than a winter operation, with innovative new fun activities.
We hope the new, improved café facilities will put us on the itinerary
of many more touring coaches, and also offer our summer visitors
an even better experience.
Summer programme
Mr McIntosh said summer visitors will be attracted by the prospect
of quad bikes, fun karts, dévalkarts, summer tubing, kiddie karts
and chairlift rides. He said the centre's design takes advantage
of the lie of the land, with the lowest floor below ground on one
side, while opening out to the hillside and chairlift on the other.
The Lecht boasts Scotland's largest
artificial system for making snow, with six mobile cannons covering
all nursery slopes and the lower parts of most main runs.
[Source: bbc.co.uk]
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