Ski Resort and Snow News - December 2010
The World’s Longest Ski Race Coming To Lech
Published : 31-Dec-2010 02:48
The longest ski race in the world returns to Lech in Austria in mid-January.
The White Ring, being staged for the sixth time, covers 22 kilometres of piste and 5,500 difference in altitude in Lech-Zürs in the Arlberg region and takes place this winter on 15th January.
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Snow Forecast Summary - 30th December 2010
Published : 30-Dec-2010 11:56
Our final weekly snow mail of 2010 is a relatively quiet one (for Europe at least).
This past week the most notable snow action in the Northern Hemisphere was to the East Coast of the United States which saw widely reported snow storms bring over 1 metre (four feet) of snow to New England resorts.
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Fun On 2 or 4 Wheels On Snow In Cortina
Published : 30-Dec-2010 10:56
Cortina
Cortina in Italy is offering more activities on wheels on the snow this winter for those fancying a change from downhill skiing and boarding during their stay.
Firstly there's the opportunity to try mountain biking on the snow with the resort's new K-track kit.
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Moonlit Skiing In Spain
Published : 29-Dec-2010 07:18
Night Skiing in Formigal
Moonlit Skiing in Spain
Like slow skiing zones and skier cross courses, moonlit skiing seems to be a growing trend in ski areas across Europe.
The latest place where you can ski beneath the lunar rays is Formigal in the Spanish Pyrenees which will offer moonlit skiing on three evenings this winter.
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New England’s Big Snow Means Great Conditions (Once You Can Get There)
Published : 28-Dec-2010 10:08
The recent huge snowfalls in the eastern US my have caused the latest round of travel nightmares, but they're also great news for the busiest week of the season in New England, so long as skiers and boarders can reach the slopes.
Resorts are reporting up to four feet (120cm) of new snow has fallen in 48 hours, with most reporting two to three feet (60-90cm) of snow and several over a metre.
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Santa Delivers Big Toy to Good Boys at CairnGorm
Published : 24-Dec-2010 06:17
CairnGorm Mountain piste machine drivers Tom Moodie and Adam MacInnes with Santa(aka Les Andean)
All five ski areas are now open in Scotland following Glencoe's opening on Thursday, December 23rd. The only area that hadn't opened already has intermediate and advanced level terrain now open.
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Snow Forecast Summary - December 23rd 2010
Published : 23-Dec-2010 09:10
With our last weekly snow round-up before the Christmas weekend, all of us at J2Ski would like to wish you and yours all the very best for a great break.
Further snow in almost all European ski areas improved conditions last weekend, although a few days of milder weather have affected the snow pack in lower altitude resorts.
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Remarkable Snowfall Out West
Published : 21-Dec-2010 07:45
Mammoth
California has been hit by 'historic' volumes of snow in the past week that has taken its resorts up to the deepest snow levels in the world at present, according to independent snow reporting agency Skiinfo.
Mammoth Mountain has seen the most remarkable accumulations - with 361cm (12 feet) falling in the past week, a metre (3.3 metres) of it in the past 24 hours alone, giving it the greatest snow depth in the world at 457cm (over 15 feet). It has overtaken the glacier ski slopes of the Pragelato ice field above Passo Tonale in Italy which measures year round snow accumulation of more than four metres to often hold the number one spot outside the main season.
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Ski For Two Days Across the Kitzbühel Alps
Published : 19-Dec-2010 02:47
Kitzbuhel At Night
The Kitzbühel Alps region – which has offered an ever larger amount of ski lifts and runs on one pass since last winter – is seeking to highlight just how big it is by promoting a 50km long 'tour' of the area that can be made over one or two days by anyone staying in one of the many resorts that now participate in the pass.
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New Ski And Apres Ski Pass in Chamonix
Published : 18-Dec-2010 09:53
Aiguille du Midi at Chamonix
After several months of planning Chamonix's lift company and tourist office have got it together amd launched a new lift pass that's valid on the ski pistes during the day, and in the resort's off-slope sports facilities too.
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Bulgarian Ski Areas Join UK Government Alcohol Warnings Campaign
Published : 15-Dec-2010 02:33
A campaign launched in parts of France, Italy and Switzerland to highlight the dangers of drinking too much alcohol in ski resorts, particularly at altitude, is being partially extended to Bulgaria.
Plovdiv and Sofia airports, the key gateways to the main Bulgarian ski areas of Bansko, Borovets and Pamporovo will feature large warning posters in their Arrivals halls and posters as well as beer mats with the same warning will appear in the resort's bars, restaurants and hotels.
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Snow Early Warning - for December 17th to 18th 2010
Published : 15-Dec-2010 07:14
For anyone not on our Snow Mail list - this is to give you a heads-up on some significant weather trends for the coming weekend.
This particularly concerns you if you will be traveling within Europe or the UK, but may also affect transatlantic flights originating or arriving in North West Europe.
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Snow Forecast Summary - 10th December 2010
Published : 10-Dec-2010 05:41
Another interesting week for weather (and snow) watchers in Europe. Snow last weekend was followed by a substantial, but brief, rise in temperature early in the week - accompanied by heavy rain to quite high levels (up to 2000 metres). Although this wrecked the early snows at low altitude, the resultant thaw / freeze has provided a useful consolidation of the snow pack at mid levels.
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Skiing Powder - Northumberland, England
Published : 10-Dec-2010 11:25
Oh yes, even some tele-steeze going on here... great vid from the guys at LD Mountain Centre :-
Yep, it's in England! :D
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North America’s Biggest Vertical Opening Today
Published : 10-Dec-2010 08:10
The biggest lift-served vertical in North America, since Revelstoke took the coveted title from Whistler two seasons ago, opens today when the new resort in British Columbia opens up its full top-to-bottom skiing potential for the first time this winter.
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Ski The Mountains of England
Published : 09-Dec-2010 11:04
Boarding Weardale
The English Alps don't actually exist, but we do have the Pennines and the Lake District and it's a little known fact that there are half a dozen 'club fields' for skiers and boaders operating reall ski lifts across Northern England.
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Ski Geneva
Published : 09-Dec-2010 08:47
If you can't wait to get to the slopes after landing in Geneva this weekend, there's no need to spend hours stuck on the motorway down to the French Alps, why not ski the slopes of Geneva city itself instead?
The famous French/Swiss ski gateway city opens 'SkiVille' today, described as a 'skiing extravaganza' located in the centre of the cities old town it is open from 6pm nightly.
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Heliskiing The Aosta Valley
Published : 06-Dec-2010 07:05
While Switzerland is reported to be considering joining France in making heliskiing illegal, or at least initially dramatically reducing the number of spots where it's allowed, Italy is actively promoting its own heliskiing opportunities.
The Aosta Valley which runs along the French border in the West of the country is a particularly popular spot for heliskiing, allowing resorts like La rosier, across from les arcs in France to claim to be the only French resort to offer heliskiing, as skiers can take the lifts from there and ski over the border to La Thuile to board their chopper.
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New Uplift In The Dolomites
Published : 06-Dec-2010 06:50
Alta Badia
The Dolomiti Superski region is one of the world's most successful. Taking 25% of the Italian market it's 50 or so ski areas spread across a dozen valleys have been working together for nearly 40 years now, since the early years of commercial computer usage allowed them to create a common lift pass. Even today, while a few areas do offer more than its 1,080km (725 miles) of piste on one pass, few are as flexible, usable in any part of the vast system for even just part of a day.
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High Noon Express Debuts at Vail
Published : 06-Dec-2010 06:44
Vail's High Noon Express Lift (#5), it's latest quad, also known as "Chair 5," has gone into service at the weekend.
The Leitner-Poma lift take's Vail's uplift capacity to 59,092 people per hour, more than any other resort in the USA, and second in North America only to Whistler. It now has 17 high speed quads, more than any other ski area on the planet.
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Chemmy Alcott's Broken Leg - Official Statement From BSS
Published : 03-Dec-2010 02:03
Britain's Number 1 skier, Chemmy Alcott is recovering from surgery after breaking her leg in a high speed crash during downhill practice at the Lake Louise World Cup course in Canada.
"We understand that Chemmy fell on the upper part of a steep section of the Lake Louise course and continued to tumble down the piste. She suffered an open fracture and was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Banff," said British Ski and Snowboard (BSS) Chief Executive, Dave Edwards.
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Nevis Range Opening Earliest for 13 Years
Published : 03-Dec-2010 12:31
Nevis Range's opening tomorrow will be the earliest since the 1990s. The resort has been closed for its annual pre-season maintenance programme, but staff have worked round the clock to complete the parts required for the lifts to run two weeks sooner than expected.
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Chemmy Alcott breaks leg at Lake Loiuse
Published : 03-Dec-2010 07:53
From the BBC.
British skier Chemmy Alcott broke her leg when she crashed at high speed in downhill practice in Lake Louise in Canada on Thursday.The 28-year-old landed badly after a jump in the tricky Coaches Corner section.
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Snow Forecast Summary - 2nd December 2010
Published : 02-Dec-2010 11:11
This Week
Huge snowfalls and very low temperatures were reported from across The Alps, with less widespread but still impressive new snows blessing North America. Around one third of all Northern Hemisphere resorts are now open with superb early season conditions for most, particularly in Europe.
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New Cabins For Val Thorens Lift
Published : 02-Dec-2010 04:45
New cabins have been delivered to Europe's highest ski area, Val Thorens, to replace the old cabins of the highest cable car in the Three Valleys.
The two new cabins, one grey and one red, were delivered from Switzerland and made the last part of their journey across the snow, towed between two piste bashers.
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Zermatt Claims More Runs Open Than Anywhere Else This Weekend
Published : 02-Dec-2010 04:24
Zermatt reports that as of this weekend it will have more runs available than anywhere else.
The famous Swiss resort, which operates Europe's highest lifts at 3,899m in the summer and is open 365 days a year (subject to weather conditions) will have eighty percent of its giant "Matterhorn ski paradise lifts and pistes open.
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