The Scottish ski industry’s second-worst winter on record: what went right?

By rights, the 2018-19 Scottish ski season should have been an unmitigated disaster. Not only did the hills stubbornly refuse to turn white for much of the winter, the funicular railway at CairnGorm was out of action all the way through, effectively preventing skiers from gaining access to the resort’s highest, snowiest slopes. If you’d predicted, at any time between December and April, that this was going to be the worst Scottish ski season on record, you probably wouldn’t have seen many raised eyebrows.