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<\/a>Colin Matthew<\/p><\/div> As the first storms of the winter blow in, the Ski Patrol are shown in the first episode of the series working hard\u00a0to get the resort open as early as possible.<\/p>\n Working out of the mountain\u2019s base station, Colin Matthew is responsible for a team of 40 workers. He says: \u201cSkiers, they\u2019ve got the bug now, it\u2019s winter, they want to get skiing and boarding so we\u2019ll do what we can. I think if you\u2019re from this area the snow is just part of your life, and the mountain\u2019s part of your life really.\u201d The series will also take a look at the lives of some of those providing for the winter tourism economy including accommodation providers, restuarant and cafe owners and Callum Fraser more commonly known to most as Spud the Piper.<\/p>\n The Mountain will be shown on BBC1 Scotland 7:30 – 8pm Monday 12 January and available on iPlayer shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new six-part TV documentary following a winter at the Cairngorm ski centre will start on Monday 12 January. The observational documentary series,\u00a0The Mountain, \u00a0to be shown on BBC1 Scotland at 7.30pm, will focus on the lives of those that struggle to keep the ski centre open through gales and snowstorms, and the people of Aviemore, whose livelihoods partly depend on a great winter season. As the first storms of the winter blow in, the Ski Patrol are shown in the first episode of the series working hard\u00a0to get the resort open as early as possible. Working out of…<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12259,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12253\/revisions\/12259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe observational documentary series,\u00a0The Mountain<\/em>, \u00a0to be shown on BBC1 Scotland at 7.30pm, will focus on the lives of those that struggle to keep the ski centre open through gales and snowstorms, and the people of Aviemore, whose livelihoods partly depend on a great winter season.<\/p>\n
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\nAmong the preparations is a newly introduced system of \u2018banking\u2019 snow to help build lasting depth on the ski runs.<\/p>\n