Ski Resort and Snow News - September 2016
Ski Areas in Three Countries Opening this Weekend
Published : 29-Sep-2016 07:59
The French 2016-17 ski season will officially kick off this Saturday with Tignes re-opening for snowsports on the Grand Motte glacier. It will be the only ski area open in France until late November, except for a week long opening of the Les 2 Alpes glacier in late October.
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Snow Centre To Get More Swiss Still Next Month
Published : 29-Sep-2016 01:56
The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead which recently had the hundreds of metres of walls surrounding is indoor snow slopes transformed from their original Austrian Tirolean landscape to a Swiss Valais mountain makeover, is to stage a special Swiss weekend from the 7th-9th October 2016, the first of several planned.
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New Flight Routes To Grenoble
Published : 28-Sep-2016 01:10
Hot on the heels of the news of €10m in improvements to Chambery airport, a second French 'ski-airport' Grenoble-Isère, has announced new flight routes from the UKs along with departure terminal improvements to make it better to travel through for skiers this winter.
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Travel Companies Report Sales Up Despite Brexit Vote
Published : 27-Sep-2016 08:53
Specialist ski tour operator, Ski Solutions has become the latest to report business up overall despite the Brexit vote.
They join other companies to make the same claim to varying degrees including tour operators Club Med and Ski Independence and transfer company Ski-Lifts.
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Chambéry Airport Gets €10m Upgrade
Published : 22-Sep-2016 07:39
Chambéry Airport, beloved for its proximity and ease-of-access to many of the big name ski areas in the French Alps, but less popular for its peak time crowding, is undergoing a multi-million Euro upgrade aimed at addressing many of those issues.
The airport is little used outside the ski season so investing in big infrastructure improvements have been hard to justify, but as ever more UK airlines use the airport on ever more routes, it was equally impossible to ignore the overcrowding issues. Crystal Ski Holidays alone brings well over 30,000 British skiers to the French Alps via Chambéry Savoie airport every year with up to 20 flights once a week from 15 regional UK airports including Gatwick, Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol and Dublin.
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10% Off Chamonix Lift Passes for Online Advance Purchase
Published : 19-Sep-2016 06:18
Anyone needing a 6-9 day lift pass for the Chamonix Valley can save around 10% by buying their pass at least three days in advance online this winter. Lift company the Compagnie du Mont Blanc say this is the equivalent of a buy-5-days-get-one-day-free deal.
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Fresh Snow in Europe and North America, 30cm More Forecast
Published : 16-Sep-2016 09:16
(Image Loveland, Colorado)
Snow has been falling on higher mountain slopes on both sides of the Atlantic over the past few days and forecasting models are projecting up to 30cm (a foot) of fresh snow could fall in the next 36 hours on some glacier ski areas in the Alps that are already open for 16-17, including at Pitztal in Austria, Val Senales in Italy and Zermatt in Switzerland.
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Eurostar To Run Additional Trains in February Half Term
Published : 14-Sep-2016 10:03
Eurostar has announced additional trains will be running direct to the French Alps from St Pancras on key February Half term dates in 2017.
Tickets for the additional services have gone on sale today (September 14th, 2016) with return fares from £309.
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Fresh September Snow In The Alps and BC
Published : 13-Sep-2016 02:50
Fresh snow has been reported on both sides of the Atlantic in the past 24 hours, getting pulses racing ahead of the coming ski season.
In the Alps images of the glacier at Les 2 Alpes, which recently closed after a three month summer ski season, being dumped on last night with fresh snow were posted on social media.
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45 Trapped Overnight On High Altitude Gondola
Published : 09-Sep-2016 07:50
A rescue operation has just resumed to rescue 45 people trapped overnight on one of the world's highest gondolas.
The lifts which are used by summer sightseers to get a close up view of Mont Blanc cross the Vallee Blanche glacier, home of the famous Vallee Blanche ski run, run from the top station of the Aiguille du Midi in France.
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New 007 Ski Run Commemorates 20 Years Since Filming
Published : 08-Sep-2016 08:28
James Bond never seems to be far away from the mountains. Along with new movies filmed in ski resorts, resorts used as locations in the past continue to enjoy a 'Bond legacy' that seems sometimes a bigger draw even that having been a past host of a winter Olympics.
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A Foot of Snow Today in New Zealand
Published : 07-Sep-2016 09:30
A wintery blast has delivered one of the biggest snowfalls of the season so to ski areas around Queenstown in New Zealand.
31cm of snow (just over a foot) of snow had fallen at The Remarkables base building by 3pm today (Wednesday September 7), and Coronet Peak had received 15cm and counting. Snow at both mountains continues to fall heavily and steadily.
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New Lift's Support Tower Carries Most Passengers in World
Published : 04-Sep-2016 08:56
The Austrian resort of Ischgl, which already runs one of the world's most state-of-the-art networks of high capacity, high speed gondola and chairlifts will add a new eight-person chairlift this winter, but it's a lift support tower rather than the €14m lift itself that's grabbing the attention!
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‘30 Days of Snowsport’ Returns
Published : 03-Sep-2016 06:17
Snowsport England's annual promotion designed to encourage more people to try skiing and boarding (or get back to the sport if they've done it in the past) through England's dry slopes and indoor snow centres is back for its third year.
Part of the organisation's wider GO SKI GO BOARD campaign, this year's initiative will run from Saturday 24th September until Sunday 23rd October 2016 and involves 70 separate free or discounted taster and recreational sessions running nationwide.
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Pakistan Chairlift Re-Built A Decade After Taliban Destroyed Original
Published : 02-Sep-2016 02:34
The former cricket star and current leading Pakistani Politician Imran Khan yesterday declare open a new double chairlift installed at Pakistan's Malan Jabba ski area.
The original chairlift at the centre, Pakistan's only fully commercial ski resort, was destroyed around 2007 by the Taliban when they took over the Swat Valley where it is located.
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J2Ski's Where to Ski in September 2016
Published : 01-Sep-2016 09:53
Hello again,
Welcome to our global snow round-up for September; August brought fresh snow both North and South of the equator, holding out promise of the season to come for the North and giving good conditions for the last few weeks of winter 2016 in the South.
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Catching Pokemon On The Ski Slopes
Published : 01-Sep-2016 08:39
A number of ski areas have told J2Ski that they've found Pokémon lurking on their ski slopes and are obviously keen to get the word out that there's a new reason to head to their resorts this winter besides just skiing.
Well that's if you're part of the Pokémon™ GO app craze that has seen people pointing their phones at places all over the word and seeing Pokémon characters that aren't visible to the naked eye.
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