It stands to reason they’re less than enthusiastic about mountain bikes on the pisted slopes. Typically, there will be learner groups over those lower sections and the last thing they need is 35lbs of pointy-out metal hurtling down the hill towards them.
My stance is quite clear – the ski area covers a very small (tiny actually) part of the Cairngorms. As cyclists we have access to all of it. It’s simply selfish to put yourself in amongst them when there’s so much more available.
Like to know how the guy in the video with the fat bike got to the top. It is seriously a hard slog riding there to the mid station. Steeper than I imagined it too thinking going up the equivalent of a green/blue would be ok.
Push/carry is the way to get onto the plateau. Rather than going up the ski area you’d have been better going up the ridge on either side, or heading across the front of the corries and up the east side of Lurchers Gully. You can make a good circuit of it that way.
Of course, it’s a bit easier in summer.
[url=https://flic.kr/p/oAVxQt]Cairngorm[/url] by Colin Cadden, on Flickr