Glenshee is enjoying more snow than venues for the 2014 Winter Olympics, ski bosses have said.
A succession of storms since November has ensured the Cairngorms resort is covered in a thick blanket of snow.
So deep is the coverage that workers at the ski centre are having to dig to expose ski lifts.
Gallery: Glenshee gets more snow than Sochi
Graham McCabe, managing director at Glenshee Ski Centre, said they were pleased with the coverage.
“We’ve got more snow in places than we’ve seen in 20 years,” he said.
“Today we have just half the ski area open because the rest of it is buried in snow. We’re having to dig down to where the ski lifts are.
“We have more snow than Sochi. I think that goes without saying.
“However, I don’t think we are going to get the Winter Olympics here at Glenshee.
“In Scotland snow doesn’t fall straight out of the sky, it comes with strong winds, so we have massive drifts.
“Some will be 10 metres deep in the gullies, and we have a huge accumulation of snow, but looking at Sochi they don’t have much more than a metre and a half.
“If you want good skiing, come to Scotland, not Russia.”
However, he added that although the weather was providing great skiing conditions, it was also preventing people enjoying the slopes properly.
He said: “Obviously underfoot it is fantastic we have loads and loads of snow but we could do with a break in the weather so people can get the full enjoyment of it. There are a lot of days where we are winded.
“It’s never been winded off completely, but a lot of days we have been down to the lower slopes.”
He added: “On Friday and Saturday we had to shut down early because the access roads were becoming difficult to keep clear, so we went for an early closure in order to get everybody away safely.
“I would say the weather has kept visitor numbers a lot lower, we could have been a lot busier than we are. It’s really down to the overhead conditions, if they improved it would be a lot better.
“But no snow is even worse, so at least we’ve got very good snow cover. We have that much snow on the ground now that it doesn’t matter if we get a mild spell as we’ll easily ride it out.”
Mr McCabe said he was expecting many families to travel to the Cairngorms and hoped the weather would take a turn for the better.
“If we can get a break in the weather, especially with the February mid-term holidays which is our busiest time we’d like some sunshine,” he added.