Ski and snowboard just 10 mins away from Cranmore & Camellia
Yes, you read right. Being the highest village has its perks in winter! We have a temperate climate in the North Pennines but some say an subarctic climate in Nenthead* and just 10 minutes away is Yad Moss Ski Slope, with England’s longest ski lift. In winter of 2020/2021 we had fantastic wintry conditions with good snowfall and it looks like winter 2021/2022 we will see snow again if the weather forecast is to be believed. Yad Moss is one of only 4 skiing areas equipped with permanent lifts or rope tows in Northern England.
Season tickets and day tickets can be purchased online here.
If you’re like us and love finding out the origins of all the beautiful names around the North Pennines, Yad is the old Pennine word for pit pony and Moss is another word for rough moorland. It was probably an area where the pit ponies used to graze in mining days gone by.
But that’s not all. We are close to a second ski slope, in neighbouring Daddry Shield, only 16 minutes drive away from our cottages, in the beautiful Weardale Valley. More information can be found here.
*Gordon Manley was instrumental in ascertaining that the climate of the Cross Fell region was more like that of Iceland than Britain, see G. Manley, The climate of the northern Pennines: the coldest part of England, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 62 (1936) 103–115.
Photo Credit: Yaroslav Shuraev