A Scottish ski resort has launched a competition to guess which of its remaining few snow patches will be last to melt as temperatures soar.
Glencoe Mountain Resort has had temperatures hit 30C there this week.
The resort, on its Facebook page, said: “With the snow disappearing fast it’s time to put your skills to the test and work out which snow patch will last the longest and the final melt date.
“1 is Flypaper patch. 2 is Spring run patch. 3 is Rannoch Glades patch. 4 is Main Basin Patch. 5 is Haggis Trap patch.
“A free ski or bike day pass to everyone getting the correct patch and melt date. If no one gets it correct the closest three will get a ski or bike day pass. Good luck.”
The Scottish season season ended in May after one of its best in years with around 240,000 skier days logged.
It came after one of the worst ever seasons for the Scottish centres with barely more than 54,000 skier days.
Across the five resorts, the number of skier days in 2015/16 was 207,770 compared to 230,634 for the previous winter and 235,191 in 2013/14.
The figures are still below 2009-2010 – one of the best on record – when almost 375,000 people hit the slopes.
Since then, Scotland’s five snowsports areas have hosted more than two million skier days which have generated almost £182m for the national economy.
