Ski Resort and Snow News - January 2012
Play The Game
Published : 31-Jan-2012 12:53
In an unusual new marketing development, Mountain High resort in California, the 'local' ski slope for LA has announced it has launched its own online snowboarding video game, the Cholula Triple Air, which will work on both PCs and Macs.
The free to play game gives players the chance to fly over 70 foot kickers and throw back to back switch Rodeo 900s or perhaps a few double back flips and triple cork 1260s before breakfast.
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Burton European Open Returning To Laax
Published : 31-Jan-2012 09:31
Snowy Laax
It was possibly an unlucky decision that the 13th Burton European Open should be postponed – it was taken in early December when there had been almost no snowfall in the Alps and the organizers feared then there would not be enough to build the pipe and other elements required for the contest. The Open is normally staged in January each year.
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Snow in the Pyrenees
Published : 30-Jan-2012 09:35
There's been good news over the past 72 hours for resorts in the southern Alps and Pyrenees which had been doing OK, in most cases, for snow cover this winter but were missing the spectacular accumulations reported in the Northern Alps.
That's changed to some extent since Saturday with falls of up to 105cm reported at resorts in France, Andorra and Spain with temperatures dropping as low as -12C
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Cold Weather Warning - w/c 30th January 2012
Published : 30-Jan-2012 09:49
Heads up! Wrap up!
Temperatures in The Alps are set to take a bit of a dive as this week progresses, to the extent that extra care will be needed.
Most of the region is currently cooler than average for this time of year (which is not exactly warm in any case!), but much of the Austrian, French, Italian and Swiss Alps are likely to get significantly colder by the end of the week.
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Courchevel Has Most Expensive Hotel and Most Expensive Chalet in Ski World
Published : 29-Jan-2012 02:41
One resort has come top in two studies in to the most expensive chalets and hotels in ski resorts worldwide.
Les Suites de la Pointière came top in a list of the 10 most expensive ski hotels published by American website www.luxury-hotels.com at an average price of $1958 (US) (about £1245)per night in January, while a chalet called Ormello, peaked at €200,000 Euros (a little over £168,000) a week according to the Oxford Skiing Company's annual report on what they believe are the best (not always the most expensive) luxury chalets at www.luxurychaletcollection.com
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French Snowfall At Record Levels
Published : 27-Jan-2012 07:41
A number of large French regions are reporting snowfall there has hit 'record levels.'
In Chamonix's case the record was for snowfall last weekend, with at one point a metre falling in 24 hours, which the tourist office said was 'a record' but it's not clear if that's ever or just in January. Not that anybody cares much, conditions are phenomenal once the roads are clear and the maximum avalanche danger drops.
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Snow Forecast Summary - 26th January 2012
Published : 26-Jan-2012 10:36
Once again we can report the fall of heavy snow in many alpine areas. Last weekend in particular saw accumulations of around 1 metre (three feet) over several days, for parts of the French, Swiss and Austrian Alps. Since then clear weather has become the norm, with temperatures varying around the January averages.
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Next Generation Hi-tec Goggles to Display Heart Rate and Much More
Published : 26-Jan-2012 08:18
Well it doesn't seem so very long ago that we were all getting excited about goggles with in built video cameras and GPS displays. Oh that's right it wasn't that long ago, only last year if memory serves, but now new software has been announced that will do so much more and turn our once tedious view of the ski slopes in to something more akin to Arnie the cyborg's view from inside his shades in Terminator 2.
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Heavy Snowfall USA
Published : 25-Jan-2012 10:08
The hoped for snow storms in California finally materialised earlier this week when, after ac foot or two fell over the weekend (not enough(, a much more impressive dump arrived Monday/Tuesday allowing resorts top claim accumulations of up to 1.8m (six feet) transforming fairly bare slopes.
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How Many Restaurants Can Visit In A Ski Day?
Published : 22-Jan-2012 08:49
If you've ever fancied eating at lots of different restaurants and skiing very fast between them then the catchilly-titled 'Luttman-Johnson Challenge' could be for you.
The aim of the Challenge is to ski between pre-determined restaurants in Zermatt's vast ski area and spend as long as you can at each one. This generally means skiing as quickly as possible between each one.
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British Chef Helps With Michelin-starred Mountain Food
Published : 21-Jan-2012 07:14
Italy's Alta Badia region, home to villages in the tour op brochures like Corvara – one of six in the region- has built a reputation as a Mecca for gourmet cuisine, generally at more affordable prices than you would expect, and both in the resort villages and up in the mountain restaurants.
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Retiring Didier Cuche Fastest in Hahnenkamm Training
Published : 20-Jan-2012 08:52
Didier Cuche, who announced he will retire at the end of the season, posted the fastest time in training for the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel tomorrow with a time of 1 minute, 58.10 seconds.
The 37 year old Swiss racer has won 4 of the past 5 World Cup Downhill titles.
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Zermatt Offers First Tracks
Published : 19-Jan-2012 04:57
Zermatt is offering skiers and boarders in the famous Swiss resort the chance to be the first on the slopes on a Thursday morning each week.
Known as the "First Track" package, participants are exclusively allowed to board the cable car up to Trockener Steg and have first dibs on the freshly groomed slopes back down to the valley before breakfast.
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Snow Forecast Summary - 19th January 2012
Published : 19-Jan-2012 06:46
The past week has been one of the calmest in the European Alps for a while - with clear and generally cool weather prevailing. Nonetheless, a number of Austrian resorts have had decent snowfall this past week, snow depths at altitude remain impressive in much of Austria, France and Switzerland and there are still some 50 resorts reporting high level bases of 3 metres or more.
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Verbier Ride 12 postponed due to incoming snow
Published : 18-Jan-2012 07:57
The Verbier Ride - scheduled for this coming weekend - has had to be postponed due to forecast snow.
Ride Freesport wrote:VERBIER RIDE 12 - Rescheduled due to bad weather this weekend
Yet more snow is forecast for Verbier this weekend and unfortunately it will make it impossible for the Verbier Ride 12 Slopeslyle event to take place. The effort, energy and time that goes into constructing a Slopestyle course is immense and there will not be enough time to re-construct the course after the new snowfall on Saturday or Sunday.
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There’s A Storm A Coming
Published : 18-Jan-2012 04:59
Be thee in California or Courchevel there is reported to be bad weather a'brewin out west that looks set to dump between one and two metres of snow by the end of the weekend.
The most excited area is California which has seen the most dramatic switcheroo from last winter's epic falls with almost no natural snowfall this winter to date. That's about to change big time if the forecasters are right.
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Survey Finds 17% Of Brits Hit The Slopes After Only ’Training’ on Computer Games
Published : 16-Jan-2012 09:28
Another one of those wonderful surveys has been published, this time by banking giants Santander in a bid to publicise their insurance products.
A company called Opinium Research carried out the research that generated the results below on behalf of Santander by contacting over 9,000 adults between 14 – 18 March 2011 of whom over 750 turned out to be skiers or snowboarders.
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Banff Launches A New Festival
Published : 14-Jan-2012 07:47
Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada has just got started on a month-long celebration of winter to compliment other famous fests in the region such as the long running Jasper in January to the north.
The first-annual 'SnowDays' festival seeks to build on the traditions of past winter carnivals whilst establishing new events with a fun-filled month of weekday activities and weekend festivals which will add an extra dimension for anyone holidaying in the region any time from today January 14 through to the festival's finale on February 12, 2012.
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Freestyle ski star Sarah Burke in coma after crash
Published : 12-Jan-2012 07:53
Sarah Burke, X-Games Gold medal winner and Olympic hopeful, has been seriously injured in a ski accident in Park City, Utah, while at a training camp with one of her sponsors.
A member of the Canadian Halfpipe team; Sarah is one of the most successful female freeskiers and has won eight X Games medals, including four Gold.
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Vail To Build World's Fastest Gondola
Published : 10-Jan-2012 04:13
Vail say that a new gondola they'll start work on as soon as their ski season ends in April will be the fastest of its type in the world.
The lift, which will contain cabins capable of seating up to 10 people, will be completed in time for the resort's 50th anniversary in November.
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Biggest Jan Snowfalls in 30 (or 60) Years In Austrian Tirol
Published : 09-Jan-2012 10:06
After France and Switzerland, Austria is the latest European country to report sensational snowfall.
The famous ski nation had already been faring well with snowfall from mid-December but the accumulations seem to have stepped up another gear with several resorts in the Tirol reporting that January 2012 is the snowiest for 30 years.
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Too Much Snow In Europe?
Published : 08-Jan-2012 07:45
It's all change on Europe's ski slopes which have gone from being virtually snow-free a month ago to buried up to four metres (13 feet) deep in snow this week.
Assuming the snowfall eventually stops, it's clearly good news that many resorts, particularly those with high altitude slopes, have snow cover that looks set to last well in to Spring, even if there's no more snow for the next three months.
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Vail Sales Up, Shares Down, As Snow Proves Elusive
Published : 07-Jan-2012 08:24
Colorado in snowier times...
"For the first time in 30 years, a lack of snow has not allowed us to open the back bowls in Vail as of January 6, 2012, and, for the first time since the late 1800s it did not snow at all in Tahoe in December," says Rob Katz, the Chief Executive of Vail Resorts which owns Colorado's Breckenridge, Beaver Creek, Vail and Keystone as well as Heavenly and Northstar in Colorado.
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Scotland’s Ski Areas Re-Open
Published : 06-Jan-2012 08:06
All five Scottish ski areas are expected to be open this weekend with some of the best conditions this season after a roller coaster months of storms, snowfalls and thaws.
Conditions were looking good at the start of the season a fortnight before Christmas before storms damaged lifts and knocked out power at the West coast resorts of Glencoe and Nevis Range.
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An Interview with a Ski Racer - Chemmy Alcott - Part 3
Published : 05-Jan-2012 08:56
An Interview with a Ski Racer - Chemmy Alcott - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
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An Interview with a Ski Racer - Chemmy Alcott - Part 2
Published : 05-Jan-2012 08:53
An Interview with a Ski Racer - Chemmy Alcott - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Part 2 - Chemmy Alcott - The Skier
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An Interview with a Ski Racer - Chemmy Alcott - Part 1
Published : 05-Jan-2012 08:45
An Interview with a Ski Racer - Chemmy Alcott - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Part 1 - From Creche to Crash, and the journey back
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Heads Up - Incoming Snow - Alps - 4th January onward
Published : 04-Jan-2012 12:28
As per the title - big snows expected across much of The Alps over the next couple of days.
Parts of the Northern Alps have had / are having snow right now but the main event of this week looks likely to start tomorrow afternoon.
Exact quantities are difficult to predict but the potential is certainly there for some very heavy snowfalls over Thursday night and into Friday, down to quite low levels (below 1,000m). Widespread accumulations of 50cm and more are looking likely.
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Chemmy Alcott to appear on Dancing on Ice
Published : 04-Jan-2012 11:58
Skier Chemmy Alcott will be appearing on the hit series Dancing on Ice. The show which begins on Sunday 8th January on ITV1 will see Chemmy taking on other celebrities including actors Corey Feldman and Jennifer Ellison and free runner Sebastien Foucan. The new series will be filmed live at Elstree studios and sees the skating stars compete each week to perform the specially choreographed routines live in the studio.
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