Ski Resort and Snow News - August 2014
Woodsy wins the NZ Freeski!
Published : 29-Aug-2014 10:12
Top news from the other side of the planet...
James 'Woodsy' Woods win the NZ Freeski Open
Team BSS slopestyle skier James 'Woodsy' Woods has taken the title of the NZ Freeski Open Champion after dominating the finals in Cardrona and taking the title ahead of Swiss skier Oysten Braten (2nd) and NZ athlete Jossi Wells (3rd).
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Ski For Free in Davos
Published : 29-Aug-2014 08:45
Davos Klosters is running a 'free lift pass' offer to try to encourage more people to visit during the five weeks they are open before Christmas week.
The famous Swiss resort partially opens its slopes on 14th November and the free lift pass deal runs right through to the 21st of December.
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J2Ski’s Where To Ski or Snowboard in September 2014
Published : 28-Aug-2014 01:00
J2Ski's Guide to Where to Ski in September 2014
28th August, 2014
Snow Report Summary
September, like May, is change over month for the global ski scene as we get the exciting first tastes of the northern hemisphere's 2014-15 ski season, while the southern hemisphere's ski areas begin to close down.
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Judge delays Decision on Park City 2014-15 Operations
Published : 28-Aug-2014 09:55
The battle for control of Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR) is rumbling on after a court hearing in Utah yesterday, which local businesses had hoped would give some indication as to whether the famous ski area would open this winter or not, failed to reach a decision.
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British Park and Pipe team goes South
Published : 27-Aug-2014 03:02
British Park and Pipe athletes head to Southern Hemisphere as event season starts
After a summer of intense training including stints in Scotland and time on the glaciers in Europe and the slopes down under, a number of Britain's Park and Pipe squad are back in competition action, heading to Australia and New Zealand for the World Snowboard Tour Southern Hemisphere events and the NZ Freeski Open.
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Swiss Ski Areas Lift Connection Moves Forward
Published : 27-Aug-2014 11:36
A map showing the proposed ski lift connection between the Swiss resorts of Andermatt and of neighbouring Sedrun has been published. Work is reported to have started on the slopes this summer in preparation for the huge changes required.
Seven gondola and (mostly) quad chair lifts will be needed to make the connection, with another six lifts (most of them drags) shown on the map to replace existing lifts. Some of the larger connecting lifts will also replace older structures above Andermatt although four of the lifts will be on new terrain.
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A Sixth Scottish Ski Area Set To Debut?
Published : 26-Aug-2014 05:23
A 'new' ski area is set to debut in Scotland this winter, the first new centre to open since Nevis Range near Fort William more than 20 years ago.
But unlike Nevis Range and the four other conventional ski areas, the Lowther Hills are not in northern Scotland, but close to the English border in Dumfriesshire.
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New Lifts, Runs and Snowmaking at Courchevel
Published : 25-Aug-2014 12:02
Courchevel has announced it has spent a sizable chunk of the €140m the Three Valleys announced it would be spending on upgrading its ski area over the five years to 2019 over this summer. Towards €20m is being spent in the Courchevel Valley on some flashy new lifts, as well as a new piste and some low energy snowmaking.
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SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser - Brixental Hits 280km
Published : 19-Aug-2014 12:23
Austria's largest ski area has officially hit 280km of piste - 87% of them covered with snowmaking after newly cut runs added a couple of kilometres to the terrain tally.
The region had been very careful to measure its pistes lengths properly and called independent assessors last year when several other Austrian ski areas had been found to be exaggerating their total terrain by counting a wide run three times and other tricks exposed in a study by the German ski expert Christoph Schrahe. But the Skiwelt's independent assessor found they had measured their runs perfectly correctly.
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Ex-Services Personel Aim To Be Paralympic Stars
Published : 14-Aug-2014 03:31
The Combined British Services (Army, Navy and Air Forces) are increasingly seeing competitive snowsports as a way of providing a new challenge for serious injured servicemen and women.
The Combined Services (Army, Navy and Air Force's) Disabled Ski Team (CSDST) is a charity which trains wounded, injured or sick personnel to be Paralympic-standard skiers, reintroducing the spirit of challenge and competition that they were accustomed to as part of normal service life.
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No Decision On Legal Challenge to Alta’s Boarding Ban
Published : 12-Aug-2014 12:20
A Utah judge has not yet made a decision on a legal challenge against one of the three ski areas in North America to still ban snowboarding.
The US district judge who heard the complaint from a group of boarders challenging the legality of the ban at Alta ski area did not say whether he thought a full case should be heard, or whether the claim should be thrown out by the courts. It seems unclear when or if a decision will be announced by the judge.
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World Record Lift For Ischgl
Published : 11-Aug-2014 06:45
Austria's Ischgl ski area continues to cement its current position as one of the world's top resorts for infrastructure investment and innovation with the news that yet another spectacular new lift is currently under construction there, with the aim of completion during the coming season.
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Crystal Launch Guidebook Instead of Brochure
Published : 04-Aug-2014 09:04
Crystal have launched a guidebook to promote their new 2014-15 ski holiday range, rather than the traditional brochure.
'Your Guide to the Mountain' runs to 236 pages and features the company's 135 destinations worldwide, the largest available in the UK.
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More People Asked to ‘Get Involved’ In Park and Pipe
Published : 02-Aug-2014 01:20
British Ski and Snowboard, the governing body of elite snowsports in the UK, have a conundrum.
Virtually all of the British Team's success in recent years has been in the so called 'Park and Pipe' disciplines, and thus under 'reward and invest for success' criteria for sports funding, all the money recently announced to fund elite snowsports athletes in the UK is allocated to Park and Pipe.
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J2Ski’s Where To Ski or Snowboard in August 2014
Published : 01-Aug-2014 02:16
J2Ski's Guide to Where to Ski in August 2014
1st August, 2014
Snow Report Summary
The Southern Hemisphere's ski season is in full swing, as we enter the busiest month of the year for many of the 100 or so areas south of the equator.
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