A bright and sunny day today and after watching the Motogp and F1 races, we took off down the highway to Nevis Range Gondola Centre which is 7 miles North of Fort William.
We arrived to find the centre quite busy but as it was Sunday it was not surprising. There was plenty of room in the car park though so we parked and walked to the ticket office.
Lyn thought we were just going to look at a mountain called Ben Nevis which is not far from here. Well we were but there were extras.
Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the British Isles. Standing at 1,344 metres (4,409 ft) above sea level, it is located at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William.
Mick hadn't told Lyn that we were visiting the centre to go for a ride on a Gondola up to the top of the Nevis Ranges. Fortunately she didn't protest and we went to the ticket window and paid £10 each for tickets for the return trip to the top.
We climbed aboard the Gondola and away we went. The views were fantastic as the countryside was in brilliant sunshine and we got off at the top to have a look at the restaurant and stand out on a verandah which had commanding views of the Glen right across to Fort William.
There were many mountain bikers taking the trip up with their bikes so that they could fly down again on the specially cut track. Various types of bike could be hired at the shop as well as GoPro HD helmet cameras so that one could record ones demise if you didn't make it down!
Having taken in the view and checked out the beautiful photographs of the Nevis Ranges we caught the lift back down and drove into Fort William.
Here we decided to have dinner and found a nice Chinese Restaurant where we had a very nice meal.
Since we were passing through Fort William on the way out tomorrow we didn't look around the town and instead headed back to the hotel in Roybridge.
Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the British Isles
We arrived to find the centre quite busy but as it was Sunday it was not surprising. There was plenty of room in the car park though so we parked and walked to the ticket office.
Lyn thought we were just going to look at a mountain called Ben Nevis which is not far from here. Well we were but there were extras.
Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the British Isles. Standing at 1,344 metres (4,409 ft) above sea level, it is located at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William.
Mick hadn't told Lyn that we were visiting the centre to go for a ride on a Gondola up to the top of the Nevis Ranges. Fortunately she didn't protest and we went to the ticket window and paid £10 each for tickets for the return trip to the top.
We climbed aboard the Gondola and away we went. The views were fantastic as the countryside was in brilliant sunshine and we got off at the top to have a look at the restaurant and stand out on a verandah which had commanding views of the Glen right across to Fort William.
There were many mountain bikers taking the trip up with their bikes so that they could fly down again on the specially cut track. Various types of bike could be hired at the shop as well as GoPro HD helmet cameras so that one could record ones demise if you didn't make it down!
Having taken in the view and checked out the beautiful photographs of the Nevis Ranges we caught the lift back down and drove into Fort William.
Here we decided to have dinner and found a nice Chinese Restaurant where we had a very nice meal.
Since we were passing through Fort William on the way out tomorrow we didn't look around the town and instead headed back to the hotel in Roybridge.
Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the British Isles
Looks a bit like a ski resort but in the middle of summer. Do they ski there in winter or is the piston bully there to only clear the snow from the bike track?
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