Ski Resort and Snow News - June 2015
New Bus – Boat – Bus- Ski In Summer Service From Bergen
Published : 30-Jun-2015 08:29
The Norwegian summer ski destination of Fonna has launched a new 'ski-bus and fjord-cruise' service from the coastal city of Bergen for those who want to ski or board there this summer.
The service starts at either Bergen bus station or from the quay in Norheimsund (which is otherwise reached by the bus from Brfgen). The boat then takes skiers and boarders on to Herand from where a waiting bus continues on to the Fonna Glacier Ski Resort. At the end of the ski day a return service is offered.
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Tom Cruise’s Colorado Ski Home For Sale for $59m
Published : 28-Jun-2015 10:18
Tom Cruise's holiday home near Telluride ski resort in Colorado has been put on the market by Sotherbys at $59m.
The property, which extends to 298 acres and is located 12 minutes' drive from Telluride includes the main house, built in 1994, with seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms, and an additional smaller guest house.
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Ski Resort Sets Up Lift Safety Website After Accidents
Published : 26-Jun-2015 09:28
An American ski resort which has had two serious chairlift accidents in the past five years is to set up a website on chairlift safety and invite anyone interested to ask questions and report concerns.
Sugarloaf ski resort in Maine is also spending $1.4m (just under a million pounds) on upgrading the motors on seven lifts this summer with the aim of avoiding any further incidents.
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Resorts Delay Opening in South America
Published : 24-Jun-2015 08:58
Whilst ski areas in New Zealand opening this week are reporting their best start in a decade, across the Pacific in Argentina and Chile it's a less rosy picture with many big known resorts facing bare slopes and being forced to delay opening.
Portillo in Chile, perhaps the continent's best known resort, has put a two week hold on their opening day, due last Saturday but now scheduled for July 4th.
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Ski Areas Open on Four Continents Today
Published : 20-Jun-2015 07:12
Ski areas have opened in Europe, North America, South America and Australia today in an annual event few besides J2ski seem to notice.
It's the start of the summer ski season on the glaciers of Whistler in Canada, North America and les 2 Alpes in France, Europe, whilst the 2015 winter season kicks off in South America and more areas open in New Zealand.
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Snow Storm storms in to New Zealand's South Island
Published : 20-Jun-2015 08:09
A major snow storm has swept the South Island over the past 48 hours, bringing significant snowfall to some of New Zealand's ski areas.
Half a metre of fresh snow has already fallen at the ski resorts of Mount Hutt and Coronet Peak.
More snow is expected from a further weather system on Monday, giving the NZ ski season a fine start! The Remarkables, Porters and Broken River are all looking to open this weekend.
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Mae’s Sochi Disqualification Stands, But 4 Year Ban Cancelled
Published : 19-Jun-2015 03:47
The Swiss-based Court of Arbitration in Sport (CAS) has finally ruled on a conflict between Vanessa Mae, who represented Thailand, her father's home country, at the Sochi Olympic Games and the International Ski Federation (FIS).
The FIS had found, several months after last years' Olympics, that Mae had acquired the vital points required to allow her to compete at Sochi, at a competition staged in Slovenia which was found to have been the scene of a wide number of practices that broke competition rules. These included competitors not present at the event being placed in the results table and the timer for at least one racer who was there not being started until after she had left the gate and was already on her run. There were many other flaws in the event's organisation.
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Les Deux Alpes Summer 2015 Opening - Saturday!
Published : 16-Jun-2015 08:07
Europe's largest glacier ski area, Les Deux Alpes, will be open for business from this coming Saturday
L2A PR wrote:Les 2 Alpes is buzzing in the summer with many outdoors activities, including skiing! The French resort has the largest skiable glacier in Europe. From 20 June to 29 August 2015 the glacier opens every day from 7 to 12.30pm. There are 111 hectares of slopes with 9 blue runs, 1 green run, 1 red run, a beginner area, freestyle area and a freeride area, making it perfect for all standards of skiers and snowboarders. The glacier is at 3,200m and is accessible from the resort via a 30minute ride with the Jandri Express cable car.
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Skiing on Midsummer's Day in Scotland
Published : 12-Jun-2015 02:36
Glencoe ski area in the Western Highlands of Scotland has announced details of its lift operations on Midsummers day, next Sunday 21st June.
The centre says there is still about 400 metres of linked vertical snow runs available for intrepid Scottish start-of-summer skiers.
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Motorbike Museum Highlight of New €15m Obergurgl Lift
Published : 10-Jun-2015 05:13
A spectacular new gondola lift being built at Obergurgl over the summer will feature an interesting attraction in its base buildings when it opens for next winter – a motorbike museum.
The new lift is located at the Top Mountain Crosspoint, is located on the Timmelsjoch High Alpine Pass Road over to Italy, 2175 metres above sea level, and a major attraction for motorcyclists – hence the idea for the museum.
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First Snow for Tiffindell for 2015
Published : 06-Jun-2015 10:44
A cold front has brought good snowfalls to South Africa's only ski resort Tiffindell.
Skiers, snowboarders and sightseers are heading to the Eastern Cape Highlands on the chance of seeing, skiing or riding some early snow.
Thanks to Lew from Tiffindell for the heads-up!
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Australian 2015 Season To Start Early With Free Skiing Tomorrow
Published : 04-Jun-2015 11:26
Several ski areas in Australia have just announced they'll open a day earlier than planned for the ski season – tomorrow Friday, June 5th. One resort has announced it will run its lifts free of charge.
The decision follows a week of cold weather that has been ideal for snow making with temperatures as low as -6C at night time and snow falls of up to 30cm/a foot of fresh snow.
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Norway Snowed in In June
Published : 04-Jun-2015 08:02
It may be June but exceptional snowfall in Northern Norway has led to glacier ski areas being forced to close whilst they dig themselves out.
The country has three glacier ski fields opening for various periods from spring to autumn and they do have a reputation for starting their season each May on deep bases of snow of up to 7 or 8m. The Stryn glacier which was due to have open a fortnight ago in fact only opened a week ago after road crews took a week longer than expected to clear the road to the lifts.
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Fresh snow at Mt Hutt, NZ
Published : 04-Jun-2015 07:47
It's looking good in Mt Hutt in the lead up to the season
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J2Ski Guide to Where to Ski in June 2015
Published : 01-Jun-2015 08:49
J2Ski's Where to Ski in June 2015
This is our guide to where to ski in June, with an overview of the coming season for the Southern Hemisphere.
Snow Report Summary
June 2015 Snow Headlines
- Heavy pre-season snowfall in New Zealand.
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