Scotland’s best backcountry skiers and boarders prepare to take on ‘Lawers of Gravity’

All eyes will be on the pistes of PyeongChang in South Korea this weekend as the 2018 Winter Olympics get under way, and Scots glued to their TVs for the duration should have more to cheer about than usual this year as a very respectable number of athletes from hereabouts have been announced as members of the British Ski & Snowboard Team. As we sort-of predicted in December’s Scottish Ski & Board supplement in Scotland on Sunday, when we profiled them as “Winter Olympics hopefuls,” downhill skier Alex Tilley from Torphins in Aberdeenshire and halfpipe skier Murray Buchan from Edinburgh have both made the cut, as have downhill skier Charlie Guest and the cross-country skiing trio of Andrew Musgrave, Andrew Young and Callum Smith, all of whom are alumni of Huntly Nordic Ski Club, which has clearly been doing something very right in recent years.