In 2006, a glider pilot from Deeside Gliding Club crashed on the hillside, spending 24 hours trapped in his plane until he was located by the RAF.

[citation needed] The usual ascent of Beinn a' Bhùird is from the car park at Allanaquoich walking up Glen Quoich and following the new path along the line of the old Land Rover road up An Diollaid.

An alternate ascent follows the Quoich Water through the Am Beitheachan to the bealach named The Sneck (Watson, 1975) (and the 1:25000 series Ordnance Survey maps) - between Beinn a' Bhùird and Ben Avon.

The development was financed by the Panchaud brothers (Gerald and Jhon) [2] of Switzerland who had purchased the estate when skiing in Scotland was booming.

Unfortunately, the seasons of 1963–64 and 1964–65 offered very little snow to the area, meaning that the ski lifts were rarely used, with the resort becoming abandoned in 1965.