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Fresh snow in the Alps – 10cm reported in past 48 hours on glaciers – Tignes has opened for the 2012-13 ski season.
September snow report – glacier ski areas are opening across Europe and there’s still good snow in the southern hemisphere…
As the UK sizzles, former Miss Scotland Lois Weatherup decided to cool down inside Snow Factor, Braehead – an indoor snow centre near Glasgow.
The Ski Club of Great Britain is looking for volunteers to join the fifth annual Big Spring Clean on Saturday 16th June.
Vail Mountain (www.vail.com) in Colorado, the largest ski resort in the US, has already begun making plans for its 50th anniversary in December
A new hotel in the South Tyrol has been designed and built in conjunction with a construction biologist, with the intention of focusing on sustainability and catering to sensitive, allergy-prone guests.
The Tri-Area ski pass or ”SkiBig3” ticket (www.skibig3.com), has been extended this winter
A “Ski-Scotland All Area Season Pass”, giving access to all five of the country’s mountain ski areas all winter long
Environmental activists have launched new protests against what they consider ‘over-construction’ in Bulgarian mountains.
Cortina opens special area for skiers who are looking to take a slightly slower pace.
The Vorab Glacier in the Swiss resort of Laax is to open this weekend.
Ischgl’s five month long winter ski season will be launches with Roxette playing live.
Brand new website snowswappers.com offers property owners in ski destinations the chance to explore other ski resorts at a minimal cost.
ActivityBreaks.com highlights three off the beaten track resorts in Austria.
In addition to the range of great early booking discounts available in their recently-launched ski 2011/12 programme, Lagrange Holidays have just released some new early-bird deals with up to 20% off for bookings made by July 15th.
Whistler, B.C. – Whistler’s mountain bike trails are featured front and centre in a compelling series of new experiential videos showcasing the skills of some of the world’s best mountain bike athletes.
Treble Cone in New Zealand has announced that it will introduce new computerised lift ticketing – with various hi-tec spin offs – and run double shifts of its grooming fleet this winter.
US-based Indie rock band Gossip is to get Ischgl’s winter season off to a high energy start. The Austrian resort’s legendary opening concert is set to attract a crowd of 20,000 people – numbers more associated with a city stadium than an open-air winter concert in the Alps, such is the popularity of the event.
*Summer ski season over in France
* Solden Opens September 10th
*Season over in Africa.
*Spring Conditions’ in Southern Hemisphere
* No skiing in North America
After a devastating arson attack in February 2009 caused well over $10 million in damage to facilities at Whakapapa in New Zealand, replacement buildings for those destroyed have received resource and building consents in time for construction this southern hemisphere summer.
Innergex, the company operating the new hydro-electric power plant at Whistler Blackcomb, which will meet 100% of the resort’s energy needs, has announced that it has started commercial operation of its Fitzsimmons Creek power plant, located between Whistler and Blackcomb mountains.
The online publication Ski Rebel Magazine (www.skirebel.com) has published a story on how the current 2010 Games came to happen in Whistler, based on an interview in the late 1990s by Ski Rebel’s Frederick Wallace with the man who ‘discovered’ Whistler 50 years ago.
Grouse Mountain ski area in Vancouver, currently open 24 hours a day for snow sports in celebration of the Olympic Games, is also celebrating the inauguration of its impressive new 65m high wind turbine, The Eye of the Wind.
A second new quad chairlift has been announced as being under construction in New Zealand ahead of the southern hemisphere’s 2010 season.
Skiinfo.co.uk has reported one unusual twist on the cold weather that is affecting much of the northern hemisphere. A new2km long ski run opened on January 9th in the southern Netherlands in northern Europe.
The Columbia Speed Flying Pro les Arcs 2010 contest will take place from the 25th – 29th January in Les Arcs.
The Hauser Kaibling ski area above Scladming in Austria has invested around 6 million Euros invested in further infrastructure improvements to its 37 kilometers of ski runs this season.
Munich’s hopes of hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in 2018 have been lifted with the opening of a new 1.5 kilometre cable car service.
Val d’Isère is the latest ski resort to launch its own iPhone application, which provides useful information to iPhone owners across the Espace Killy, both in Val d’Isère and Tignes.
Salomon is sponsoring a series of Freeski ‘Grom Camps’ at UK indoor snow domes and outdoor dry ski slopes to help get everyone from novices to experts airborne, grinding and generally having fun.
Tourism Whistler has announced it will work strategically to take advantage of opportunities for growth in tourism following the announcement that China is granting Approved Destination Status (ADS) to Canada.
Chalet Hotel des Deux Domaines in Belle Plagne, France, has received the two top prestigious awards from the European Property Awards sponsored by CNBC for the Best European Leisure Development and Best European Ski Development, beating off strong competition from other European countries.
Andorra’s Grandvalira ski area has opened two weeks earlier than planned following heavy snowfall and low temperatures in the Pyrenees.
Resorts are now opening daily across North America and it’s at this point that it becomes impossible to keep track, at least two or three are now open in each ski state/province in the west of the continent where many areas have had two feet or more of new snow in the past week.
Many of the world’s major resorts in at least 10 countries are opening for 2009-10 season this weekend. In Europe, the ski season begins in Andorra with Grandvalira opening a fortnight early after heavy snowfall in the Pyrenees.
The new Chariande Express six seater chairlift is ready to begin operation at the French Grand Massif region resort village of Samoens when the resort opens early next month.
Heavy snow in China at the start of this month has led to resorts around capital Beijing and in the country’s main ski region in the North East of the country opening about a month ahead of their expected opening dates in December.
Marmot Basin near Jasper in Alberta, Canada, opened on November 11, its earliest opening day ever, and welcomed a record number of skiers and boarders for the first day of the season.
Mount Norquay at Banff and Bormio in Italy have both opened today (Halloween – 31st October, 2009) for the 09-10 winter season. Both areas will be open weekends only for the first few weeks of November before opening full time.
The ‘green’ ski resort of Le Massif near Quebec City in Canaa is at the heart of a £120m investment programme.
The 2009-10 skiing season began in Kitzbühel on 24 October – earlier than ever before. The low temperatures combined with ultra-modern snow-making facilities and almost a metre of new snow mean that skiing is already possible in Kitzbühel ,two months before Christmas.
It was “The start of the end of skiing in the Alps” two seasons ago when in the middle of one of Europe’s worst ski seasons for snowfall the small French resort of Abondance announced it would not be running its lifts.
The world’s largest ski resort operator, the Compagnie des Alpes (CDA), is looking to add one of the remaining major French resorts not yet under its ownership to its portfolio.
Val Thorens, the highest resort in the world’s largest ski area, France’s 3 Valleys, has invested more than 1.5 million euros to create a new 40 hectares area for beginners, equipped with no less than four new roof-covered magic carpets.
A remarkable new lift for the exclusive use of those fortunate enough to be staying in the Tschuggen Grand Hotel in Arosa, enters full time service this winter.
The world’s largest ski resort operator, the Compagnie des Alpes (CDA), is looking to add one of the remaining major French resorts not yet under its ownership to its portfolio.
The 2010 edition of Where to Ski and Snowboard, now the UK’s only remaining printed guide book has been published. The brand new, completely revised 2010 edition contains 600 pages devoted to detailed description and evaluation of over 430 resorts (in around 150 areas) worldwide.
CairnGorm Mountain in Scotland was closed for the past week as staff attempted to ‘dig the resort out from, ‘too much snow.’
Mont Saint-Sauveur enjoyed its earliest ever opening on October 18th and was the first resort in Canada to open, just behind Canada’s Olympic park in Alberta, according to ski news website First Tracks (www.firsttracksonline.com) Mont Saint-Sauveur sets a new record by opening 9 days earlier than its previous record of 1997 with an opening October 27.
Sun Peaks has announced the launch of a remarkable competition, which will give snow-lovers the chance to win an all-inclusive stay in the mountains for the entire 2009/2010 Winter Season.
The first snow of the season has hit Banff-Lake Louise’s three ski resorts! Snow has blanketed the mountains all weekend.
An annual study of business reported by Switzerland’s ski lift operators has revealed that the country enjoyed its best winter for five years last season.
Vail To Offer “More Adventure” For Intermediate-Advanced Skiers Vail Resorts have unveiled a new program for the 2009-2010 ski season tailored to give guests a whole new way to explore the mountain.
itztal in Austria has already opened for winter 2009-10 thanks to operating Austria’s highest ski lifts on glacier ski slopes which now have a new special snowmaking system from Israel which can produce abundant fresh snow from water with minimal energy requirements.
A new luxury chalet company has been launched by the former Financial Director of bankrupt luxury chalet company, Descent International.
St. Anton will open on 27th November and the famous Austrian resort has launched a VIP-competition to give entrants the chance to win pole position and carve the first line of the new season with ski legend Karl Schranz.
Whistler is set to open a new hydro electric system that will generate enough renewable energy to match the entire resort’s power news.
The Ski Center Latemar in the Val di Fiemme/Obereggen district of the Italian Dolomites is one of the few in the world to be debuting a new piste this season.
Scotland’s snow sports areas are hoping that good snow seasons come in threes after two good snow winters in a row.
This season, Telluride in Colorado is expanding terrain to offer more challenging, expert skiing by adding Gold Hill Chutes 2-5.
WHISTLER, BC September 23, 2009 – Whistler, British Columbia, Host Mountain Resort of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will launch an innovative, community-run program on October 1. “ASK ME! I’m a Local” will connect passionate and knowledgeable locals willing to give a helping hand, with tourists. The program was created by Whistlerite [...]
Cold temperatures and natural snowfall have arrived earlier than expected in Colorado, USA allowing Loveland Ski Area, one of the world’s highest altitude resorts, to officially kick-off snowmaking for the 2009-2010 ski season.
One of the ski world’s largest summer construction projects this summer is at the leading Slovak resort of Jasna where a major new gondola project is under construction.
The 10 seater “Marchner” cableway will have a capacity of 3,000 skiers-per-hour and the cabins are fitted with what the resort describes as, “elegant heated leather chairs.”
Getting a family ready for a visit to Ski Dubai takes up a little bit of time in the morning, but Mr. Adil Al Kindi is now certainly glad of the precious extra minutes it took to prepare his youngsters for one of their regular trips to the popular snow sports centre.
For October Austria’s Kaunertal glacier will officially open for the 2009-10 snow sports season on October 16th.
Visitors to The Remarkables ski area near Queenstown in New Zealand this season have benefitted not only from great snow conditions, but also from a number of resort improvements on and off the slopes.
Jasper’s Marmot Basin ski resort is completing the next phase of one of Canada’s most significant ski lift development projects for the winter of 2009/2010
The Mountain Riders environmental group has issued a report on its annual spring cleaning activities across French and now British ski areas and note that 3,500 volunteers turned out to clean up the slopes of 55 participating ski resorts
Squaw Valley’s High Camp double chair is being upgraded to a triple chairlift this winter.
New holiday accommodation designed for eco-conscious skiers and boarders have opened in the Italian ski region of Alta Badia, part of the Sella Ronda circuit which lift-links around 500km of piste within the giant Dolomiti Superski ski ticket area.
After 19 years of the Mondial Du Snowboard, the huge annual October opening party staged by glacier-ski resort Les 2 Alpes, the leading French centre has announced an all new celebration of the start-of-the-season this October.
Perisher in Australia’s three-year $19 million (Aus) investment in automated snowmaking culminated this year, with a $5.7 million expansion covering the very popular beginner and intermediate Happy Valley area and top to bottom on Towers Run on Mt Perisher
The current “Bullaccia“ single seater chairlift at Alpe di Siusi, one of the falling number of this low capacity lift remaining worldwide, will be replaced by a Telemix lift, the third of its kind in Italy.
Vail’s efforts to be more environmentally friendly are on-going, with the famous Colorado resort continuing to develop, test, and implement programs designed to reduce its impact on climate change.
The cost of a six day lift ticket at Andorra’s largest ski centre, Grandvalira, is dropping for next season – albeit by just half a Euro for a six day pass, other tickets will cost the same as last winter 08-09.
Upgrades at Serre Chevalier will continue this season with a new six-seater chairlift to improve the ski experience in the Villeneuve and Monêtier sectors.
A drunken man is reported to have stolen an ambulance that had been called to the Tyrol Basin Ski and Snowboard Area in Wisconsin, USA last Monday.
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