No, don't worry we have not received snow yet but if we believe what is in our local newspaper today, it's on the way! Yes, according to the weather forecast we can expect the first snow of this winter to fall on the hills in the Highlands next week ! Quite often we do  get a dusting of snow in October but this is early.. But, should we really be surprised ?  It is interesting to read that a local Invernessian woman has just broken a longstanding record for ski-ing for continuous months in the Cairngorm Mountains above Aviemore.   Helen, a Volunteer Ambassador for Cairngorm Mountain resort during the ski season, has clocked up 35 consecutive months of ski-ing in Scotland!! By all acoounts it has taken her  miles of hiking to find the patches of snow that survive over the summer months on which to ski but done it she has...