Skiing is my thing - usually a week or two in the Alps and another 10-15 days in Scotland per year.

Skiing in Scotland can be fantastic, but it is a marginal enterprise - all the skiing is well above the treeline and suffers from the very changeable British weather.

Some links giving a flavor of what it can be like here (easily drivable there and back from where I live in Edinburgh):

http://vimeo.com/10797924

http://www.haggistrap.co.uk/photostrs/easyspikes.shtml