4th March 2025
The top of season celebration of snowsport and winter within the mountains, The Mighty Coe, is again on the Scottish ski resort of Glencoe later this month. And it’s promising the largest programme but. NEW
The Mighty Coe Winter Periods happen at Glencoe Mountain Resort and Fort William on Saturday twenty ninth March.
The programme is supported by The North Face and, for the primary time, consists of exercise for winter mountaineers and walkers, in addition to skiers, snowboarders and backcountry snowsports lovers.
The daytime line-up this 12 months consists of guided backcountry excursions, steep and off-piste snowboarding abilities, avalanche abilities and introductory periods for winter mountaineering and strolling.
The Mighty Coe 2024. Picture © Brodie Hood
All are hosted at Glencoe Mountain Resort.
The night session will deliver the Mighty Coe Snow Movie Night time again to Fort William.
“Hosted within the lovely Highland Cinema in Fort William, this would be the premier snow movie evening in Scotland this season and likewise among the finest worth nights-out of the 12 months – with give-aways, free beers and pizza all at a restricted ticket worth,” the organisers say.
The Mighty Coe, Glencoe. Picture © Brodie Hood
Headline movies embody two of probably the most beautiful snowsport freeride movies of current occasions with the legendary De Le Rue household’s Of A Lifetime and Markus Eder’s Alaskan ski epic Circle of Insanity.
Of A Lifetime celebrates discovery, journey, and the passing of the torch to the following era towards the breathtaking backdrop of Antarctica. It chronicles the De Le Rues’ journey crusing throughout the Drake Passage to experience the steep traces of the white continent.
Circle Of Insanity options Markus Eder and Victor de Le Rue returning to the legendary backbone partitions of Haines, Alaska, the place the place excessive freeriding films had been born.
Victor de Le Rue scaling a summit ridge. Picture © Christopher Thoresen & Jerome Tanon/The North Face
There’s additionally a possibility for Scottish winter mountain video creators to win this 12 months’s ‘Reel Life’ quick movie competitions.
Along with the ski and snowboard movie contest, there’s a new Scottish winter mountaineering movie competitors class.
The Winter Periods can even present entry to important abilities and security information for the mountain surroundings.
The Mighty Coe, Glencoe. Picture © Brodie Hood
“The Winter Periods are all about celebrating the enjoyment of exercise in Glen Coe and the Scottish winter mountains, however there are beneficial instructional and security features to this undertaking too,” says Neil Dalgleish from The Mighty Coe organisers, Hillside Exterior Ltd.
“Working with The North Face and their athletes, we are able to present unbelievably good worth entry to essential abilities and security schooling – in addition to a unbelievable evening out afterwards.
“It’s going to be an excellent solution to have a good time the winter season – all at worth factors which permit the widest participation attainable.”
The Mighty Coe 2024, Glencoe. Picture © Brodie Hood
Locations for all periods are already on sale, with restricted sports activities left on a few of them.
Tickets and extra particulars can be found from The Mighty Coe web site.
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