A small selection of photos showing summer maintenance work, taken on the walk back down CairnGorm Mountain on Tuesday 16th June after the visit to check out the snow fields over the back.

The first two photos show the re-profiled M1 Poma unload ramp, steeper, higher, but wider fan out (to stop people catapulting round the bullwheel).

Following photos show new lifting rigs being fitted on the Coire Cas Tow, the Carpark Tow’s bullwheel mast down for repairs and repaint (two new or refurbished/repainted bullwheels in the Cas Carpark).

Final photo, the Sheiling Tow’s novel counter weight, or is it a CairnGorm proof ‘weather stone’. The captions might read:

Stone is Wet: Raining (or the lifty couldn’t make it till his next break).

Stone is Dry: Not Raining.

Shadow on the ground: Sunny.

White on Top: Snowing.

White on one side: Horizontal Snow.

Can’t see rock:  White Out (or mystic smoke drifting from lift shack).

Swinging rock: Bloody windy.

Bouncing rock: Lard Ass just got on/off Tow.

Rock Gone: Armageddon.