Record-breaker Helen Rennie on clocking up 120 consecutive months skiing on Scottish snow

The Scotsman ^ | December 9, 2019 | Roger Cox

[ProtectOurFreedom]

On 2 October 2019, following an early dusting of snow in Highlands, a retired geography teacher from Inverness called Helen Rennie hiked up to a gentle slope near the top of Cairn Gorm, clipped on her skis and slid a short distance downhill... In doing so she made history, becoming the first person to ski on Scottish snow at least once a month, every month for ten years. Typically, when adventurers complete notable challenges, there is some sort of fanfare: cheering crowds, jostling camera crews, salivating sponsors. In Rennie’s case, however, the celebrations were far from extravagant. “I’m not really a party animal,” she laughs, “My daughter Yvonne came up with me and that was nice – we had a big cuddle after I’d done the first slither down. Then we got back to the car and had a coffee in the car and that was it.”

The understated way in which Rennie marked her achievement won’t come as a surprise to anyone who knows her. The photographer and filmmaker Henry Iddon, who is preparing to release a short film about her achievement, describes her as “a very gentle person, and a very private person. She loves skiing and she loves the Cairngorms. The thing I love about Helen is she’s 65, she’s just retired, she’s a capable skier but she’s not some hot shredder – she just loves skiing in Scotland and she keeps on skiing all year. She’s not doing it to get on the speaker circuit or become a professional outdoor athlete by doing a ridiculous challenge. She’s just doing it because she loves it, and that’s so authentic and pure and honest.”

Rennie made an initial attempt to ski on Scottish snow for 12 consecutive months in 2006 – she managed 11 months...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Here's something on the lighter side, a brief respite from the nuttiness afoot in the world. This is a small record for the record books, but what a fun record. Good for Helen Rennie! Hurrah!

I love her understated description of the completion of her adventure...she "cuddled with her daughter, got back in the car, had a coffee and that was it." LOL.

A wee bit more from the article...

Before Rennie – better known in the Scottish skiing and hill-going community as Hilly – began her great adventure, the previous record for the longest number of consecutive months of skiing in Scotland was held by a retired army major called Richard Eccles from Nethy Bridge, who skied once a month for 34 months in the 1990s. He had more stringent rules for what constituted skiing than Rennie: for him, a snow patch had to be at least 100m from top to bottom, and he had to be able to complete at least 20 consecutive turns. On one occasion he donned a climbing harness and had mountain guide Eric Pirie lower him into a gully overlooking Loch Avon in order to meet these strict criteria. By contrast, Rennie’s approach is much more relaxed: if she can complete a single turn, she’s happy.

But this does beg the question...how can somebody ski every month for ten years in Scotland when Global Warming melted has all the snow?

[kaboom]

Hunter Biden holds the record for continuous months on Columbian snow.

[FatherofFive]

Yeah, I was told all the snow and ice would disappear a decade ago.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Yep...

No More Snow In England Say Global Warmists
December 20, 2010 by Clive Hayden.

From an article in The Independent titled “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.” Written in the year 2000, global warmists are claiming that snowfall is history in Britain:

Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.

Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain’s culture, as warmer winters – which scientists are attributing to global climate change – produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries…

[T]he warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”…

There you have it...almost TWENTY years ago the experts at the University of East Anglia said "no more snow." Who ya gonna believe? Helen Reddie and her TEN YEAR skiing record? Or the pointy headed profs at the University of East Anglia (of falsified data and emails fame).

[politicianslie]

Yeah, I was told all the snow and ice would disappear a decade ago.

Unless you are a moron who believes what the Gubermint and their parroting presstitutes tell you, it is obvious to even the most unobservant nitwits that the Earth is cooling the last few decades (that means the BLUE line should be looked at):

Anyone who paid attention to high school level math in school can see that the climate liars are talking about ADJUSTED TEMPERATURES INCREASING, NOT ACTUAL MEASUREDTEMPERATURES!

To understand how and why the climate liars are passing off ADJUST TEMPERATURES as ACTUAL temperatures takes a bit more than a paragraph to explain.

Thank goodness FREEPERS are bright enough to understand that the climate alarmists are liars who need to be exposed and humiliated.

[Rebelbase]

Is this the patch of snow she skied in August?

[Timocrat]

+100

[Timocrat]

UK snow forecast: Ferocious Icelandic blizzard dumping 3 FEET of snow to batter Britain From today's Daily Express.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It doesn’t say if that’s the patch she skied. I wondered the same thing. I rather doubt it — it says she hikes up to the snow patches and is happy to make one turn. I guess you could make one kick-turn on that patch.

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Record-breaker Helen Rennie on clocking up 120 consecutive months skiing on Scottish snow

AND?

[Gay State Conservative]

Sounds like Helen needs a fella!

[Boogieman]

That guy who stopped at 119 months must be kicking himself now.

[pas]

I am looking at the blue line on your chart and the last 2 decades it has went up about 1 degree.

[Winniesboy]

I've been skiing in the Cairngorms for more decades than I care to remember, and know the snow conditions there very well. As the article says, in most years there are a few residual patches on sheltered north-facing gullies well into the summer, and sometimes right through to the first new snow of the autumn. But it's rare for there to be anough in a single patch to make it worth putting your skis on, unless it's for the sake of saying you've done it.

The one constant about skiing and snowfall in Scotland is its unpredictability, situated as it is right in the path of Atlantic depressions: but when the 'North Atlantic Oscillation' goes into reverse, there can be long dry cold spells of Continental weather with little snowfall. There can be heavy snow in November, but then little more till April. Or it can be dry until the end of January, but then continual dumps till the spring.

HOWEVER there's no doubt that during my lifetime the Scottish skiing seasons have overall got steadily shorter. They were longest in the 1970s, when you could fairly reliably find skiable lying snow between late November and late April, with the deepest snow in April. Nowadays it's foolhardy to plan ahead for skiing in Scotland - you have to be opportunist and seize your chance immediately when the snow arrives.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

You are describing the climate here in California, too. We run on approximate 11 year cycles, the same as sunspots. We typically have half the years below average or WAY below average rain, then half the years above or WAY above average rain. The only constant is the variability in rainfall and snow in the Sierras.

But, overall, I don’t see much difference in the climate in the almost 50 years I’ve lived in California. We’ve had a couple of 40 FEET snows in the Sierras the past couple winters and this is shaping up to be another huge snow year.

[politicianslie]

I am looking at the blue line on your chart and the last 2 decades it has went up about 1 degree.

And if you look at the blue line (actual temperature readings) from 1900 to 1930, actual readings went up more than one degree. From the late 1950's to 1979, temperature reading went down more than one degree. So if you look at the graph for actual temperature readings since the late 1800's, temperatures increased and then they declined but overall, they stayed in a band with peaks and minimums that were in a range.

BLUE LINE between 1890 to 2015: Two maximum temperature averages were both slightly over 54 degrees (about 1935 and 2010). Two minimum temperatures were both approximately 52.4 degrees (about 1920 and 1979). Everything else for over a century is in that temperature band between 52.4 and 54 degrees.

RED BAND ADJUSTED TEMPERATURES: Two minimum RED temperatures were 1905 and 1920. The Two maximum RED temperatures were in 2005 and 2015. Obviously the adjusted temperatures are increasing since 1900!

Another thing to notice is that the adjusted temperatures show that temperatures since 1900 were significantly cooler than what was actually recorded. That is until after 2000 when ADJUSTED temperatures began to increase OVER the blue line of actual readings.

The $multi-million question is WHY the adjustments?

The answer is very simple. The computer models project temperatures will increase as CO2 levels increase, and the adjusted temperatures show that. And the press reports of a warming Earth report the RED line changes, not the actual temperature measurements.

If you read a later chapter in the global warming hoax story, you'll find that the long term variations in climate is caused by the sun's energy output, NOT the Earth's CO2 concentrations.

It's easy for the liberals to tax CO2 generation but it is impossible for the liberals to tax the sun's energy output.

In the 1930's, it's getting HOTTER!

Wait, it's getting COLDER!

And back to it's getting hot

These newspaper stories follow the BLUE LINE of actual temperature readings. They are NOT consistent with the computer generated numbers of their CO2 concentrations models. IN this case, BLUE is good, RED is bad.

The relevance to this story is that she will be able to find more snow in the next few years because the blue line is showing temperatures are now DECREASING! She will easily be able to continue her snow skiing in the summer!