The annual celebration of snowsports and the longest day at Glencoe ski area in Western Scotland will this year feature a tribute to the murdered MP, Jo Cox.
“Glencoe Mountain has a long history of people from different backgrounds coming together to share their love of the outdoors and seems a very fitting space in which Jo’s approach to life can be celebrated and shared,” a Glencoe spokesperson said.
“Jo believed in a better world and she fought for it every day of her life with an energy and a zest for life that would exhaust most people,” her husband said after her murder.
The event, planned for Saturday, June 23rd, will be the first for two years if it goes ahead, with last year’s staging cancelled due to inadequate snow cover. Despite much better snowfall this past winter, warm weather in May and June has also impacted this year’s event, but the centre hopes it will go ahead, weather permitting.
“It’s not going to be a vintage year for snow but should still be more than enough to have some fun,” a resort statement reads.
(Glencoe’s snow cover in June 2014)
As in previous years the resort’s Cliffy lift will run for half an hour in the morning around 10am for experienced skiers.
The resort plans to organise a barbecue at the Plateau Café for hungry snowsports fans.
“The last chairlift down is at 4:15pm after that it’s walking down,” the statement continues.
Glencoe’s northerly latitude means that in midsummer it hardly gets dark at all, with daylight from around 3am to 11pm.
