Ski Resort and Snow News - July 2014
More Ski Tourists Coming To Colorado For Legal Drug Taking Than Expected
Published : 29-Jul-2014 09:04
A new report has concluded that more skiers are arriving in Colorado looking to buy marijuana on their ski holiday than was expected when the state voted to legalise limited recreational drug taking last year.
Among the findings of the study, which was commissioned by Colorado state marijuana regulators and conducted by the Marijuana Policy Group, which is run in conjunction with by the University of Colorado, is that tourists rather than Colorado residents are buying up to 90% of drugs sold in ski towns. Tourism businesses have also sprung up which collect skiers from their flights in to Denver airport then deliver them to the new drug shops before taking them to their ski accommodation.
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FIS Publish Child Lift Ticket Pricing Report
Published : 26-Jul-2014 08:56
A new report on the cost of lift tickets in ski resorts around the world for children has been published by the International Ski Federation (FIS).
The report, written by J2Ski's news editor Patrick Thorne, looks at the high season lift ticket prices for children in 700 ski areas in 50 countries worldwide.
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Ski and Snowboard Show Tickets on Sale Next Week
Published : 25-Jul-2014 07:39
The organisers of the Telegraph Ski and Snowboard Shows this autumn in London and Manchester have announced that tickets will go on sale for the two shows next Friday 1st August at 9.30am from http://www.skiandsnowboard.co.uk.
The Manchester show will take place in Event City from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th October with the London event starting on Thursday 30th October and running for four days to the following Sunday, November 2nd. Around 45,000 people are expected to attend the two shows.
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Fatal Injury Numbers Flat Lining Despite Increased Helmet Use
Published : 23-Jul-2014 10:09
A new North American study that has looked at skiing and snowboarding fatalities in the USA over the past 15 years has found that there has been no measurable change to death rates, despite a huge jump in the number of helmet wearers.
However the number of non-fatal severe head injuries have decreased, the study found.
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Austria and Inghams Offer Lapsed Skiers The Chance To Return
Published : 21-Jul-2014 08:31
The Austrian National Tourist Office is launching a campaign called 'Ski Again' this winter targeted at those who have not skied in a while, perhaps since the 2008 economic crash, to try to encourage more people to return to the slopes.
Working with Inghams as their exclusive travel partner the promotion delivers 'special offers' via the http://www.inghams.co.uk/skiagain link, with packages (due to be posted shortly) including half board hotel, flights, transfers and gear rentals but also includes a brief refresher course with local instructors to help participants get their ski legs back.
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Snow, Tennis and Choc For Federer and Vonn on Jungfraujoch
Published : 20-Jul-2014 09:13
Tennis superstar Roger Federer was to be found playing a match on a specially created court at the unlikely location of the Jungfraujoch, high above Grindelwald and Wengen in Switzerland last week.
To make the scenario even more surreal, his opponent was the skiing superstar Lindsey Vonn, whose boyfriend Tiger Wood was also over in Europe at the time, playing golf at the British open.
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British Ski Racer Tries Crowdfunding To Meet Costs
Published : 17-Jul-2014 09:28
One of Britain's remaining top ski racers has turned to crowdfunding in a bid to try to meet soe of her training costs for the coming World Cup season which will also see the bi-annual Alpine World Championships in Vail and Beaver Creek, Colorado next year, as well as looking further forward to the 2018 South Korean Winter Olympics.
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Is The 4 Valleys Lift Pass No More?
Published : 12-Jul-2014 09:03
A rift between the different lift operators in the Swiss 4 Valleys, the most famous resort member of which is Verbier, means that the 4 Valleys pass has been withdrawn for the coming season.
We have been here before. There have been long running revenue disputes between the lift operators of the different sectors which, around a decade ago, led to similar threats which dissolved before the ski season began and the 4 Valleys operated as normal.
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Saalbach Hinterglemm Spends On More Great Lifts
Published : 11-Jul-2014 08:57
Saalbach Hinterglemm, the Austrian ski resort with the highest visitor numbers (around two million) and which operates more gondolas and six-seater chairlifts than any other resort on the planet, is spending another €38.5 million this summer on yet another two cool lifts to take its total investment since 2000 past the €300 million mark.
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Ski Club of Great Britain Suspends French 'Leading' Service
Published : 02-Jul-2014 09:50
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The venerable Ski Club of Great Britain is the latest organisation to announce it will no longer be 'leading' its members on French ski slopes.
The move comes after one of its in-resort leaders was stopped in Val d'Isere at the end of last season. As a result a court case is now making its way through the French courts and is likely to be heard in late summer or early autumn.
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J2Ski’s Where To Ski or Snowboard in July 2014
Published : 01-Jul-2014 11:07
J2Ski's Guide to Where to Ski in July 2014
1st July, 2014
Snow Report Summary
With July one of the hottest months of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, it seems a little strange that the worldwide number of open ski areas returns to triple figures this month.
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