Ski Resort and Snow News - June 2021
Breckenridge House Sets $17 million Sale Record
Published : 29-Jun-2021 09:42
A ski-in, ski-out seven-bedroom, 7 1/2-bath home with a heated driveway, built in 2018, has set a record sale price of $17 million for Breckenridge.
The previous highest price for the resort and the wider summit county area was $10.1 million for a house in the same neighbourhood only two years ago in 2019. The same house had also set the old record two years earlier when it sold for nearly $2m less.
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Vail Resorts “Aggressively Looking for Opportunities in Different Markets” Says Boss
Published : 27-Jun-2021 11:25
The boss of the world's largest ski areas operating company, Colorado-headquartered Vail Resorts, says the company has multiple possibilities for expansion coming out of the pandemic.
The company has cut costs, borrowed money and didn't pay any share-holder dividends since the pandemic broke, but is reported to now be sitting on $1.3 billion as a result.
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3 New Fast Comfortable Lifts For the 4 Valleys …in 2022
Published : 25-Jun-2021 12:56
Swiss lift manufacturer Bartholet Maschinenbau AG has announced its signed a deal with Téléverbier SA and Télé-Thyon SA to work on three lifts to improve flow around the e4v Valleys from the winter of 2022-23 onward.
First up the fixed chairlift in La Pasay will be upgraded to a detachable 6-seater chairlift with a hood, shortening the travel time from 11 to 5 minutes And increasing capacity on the route to 1,600 skiers per hour.
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Colorado Ski Area Gets Small Terrain Expansion Go Ahead
Published : 24-Jun-2021 08:06
Loveland ski area in Colorado, one of the world's highest altitude ski centres, has been given the go ahead to expand its terrain.
Two new trails will be created in the existing Loveland Valley area, and two existing runs, Zig Zag and Boomerang, popular with novice skiers and boarders, will be regraded to make them easier and wider.
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South America’s 2021 Season Start Stalls
Published : 20-Jun-2021 03:38
The ski season in the Andes is yet to get underway with most of Argentina and Chile's ski areas having not previously committed to opening dates now saying it will be July until they open.
There appears to be a combination of factors at play – pandemic restrictions which in some areas are resulting in local lockdowns preventing ski areas opening, then some resorts are possibly delaying opening in low season due to the limited opportunity to break even with international borders still closed. Then the third reason is there hasn't been a huge amount of snowfall so far.
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Tignes Opens For Summer Ski Season
Published : 19-Jun-2021 10:15
Tignes has become the fifth French ski area to re-open its lifts and some ski slopes following the easing of French lockdown measures at the end of last month.
It joins its neighbour, Val d'Isere, along with les 2 Alpes to offer summer glacier skiing. Avoriaz and la Clusaz both re-opened a few slopes in the past month, but in their cases it was each just for a few symbolic days, just because they could.
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Funiflaine lift from valley floor to Flaine gets green light
Published : 18-Jun-2021 12:49
The long awaited 'Funiflaine' lift, which will connect the valley with Flaine and the Grand Massif ski area, has been given the green light.
Earlier this month, a formal contract organised by the Department of Haute-Savoie and the communes of Arâches-la-Frasse, Magland and Cluses Arve was drawn up detailing plans.
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London Ski Show Revival Postponed A Year
Published : 18-Jun-2021 09:56
An attempt to revive the London ski show this autumn after a two-year hiatus has been postponed to 2022.
The London Ski and Snowboard Festival 2021 was planned to take place at the Evolution London from 28th – 31st October 2021, the same location and with the same organisers as the former Telegraph Ski Show, although no longer associated with the Telegraph.
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Utah Sees A Record-Setting Million More Skier Days in 20-21 Despite Pandemic
Published : 18-Jun-2021 07:59
Ski Utah have reported that the state's ski areas saw record business in the 20-21 season, despite pandemic operating restrictions and a general trend away from destination resorts to 'ski local' options recorded across Europe and north America.
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Southern Africa’s 2021 Ski Season Underway
Published : 10-Jun-2021 12:54
The ski slopes of Afriski in Lesotho have opened for the 2021 ski season today, the first (and it's looking like probably the only) commercial ski field to open in southern Africa this winter, as it was last year.
With a base at over 2,900 metres above sea level, Afriski is one of the world's highest resorts, at its base at least and although it is rare for it to see big snowfalls, it does get them occasionally. However its business model relies on more predictable sub-zero overnight temperatures which allow kits snowmaking system to create a ski run of up to a kilometre in length, as well as a fun park, which survives daytime highs when they're in positive temperatures.
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Huge Snowfalls in Australia Ahead of Ski Season’s Weekend Start
Published : 09-Jun-2021 08:49
Huge snowfalls are being reported in Australia ahead of the 2021 ski season's start this coming weekend.
The heavy snowfall has arrived after several weeks of cold temperatures allowing resorts to build bases with snowmaking systems, so its perfect timing.
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Val d’Isere Opening For Summer Skiing This Weekend
Published : 09-Jun-2021 08:21
The lifts open for summer skiing on the Pisaillas glacier above Val d'Isère from this Saturday, 12 June. Access will be via the road over the Col de l'Iseran, which opens for cyclists on the same date. The lifts are open for skiers for four weeks, to July 10th, with a maximum of 600 people on the slopes each day.
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2020-21 Is Fifth Best Season in US History for Skier Numbers
Published : 08-Jun-2021 06:44
Stats collected by America's National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) found 59 million skier days were recorded for the recent 2020-21 "pandemic" ski season, the 5th best season on record and a strong recovery from the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 season.
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Avoriaz Opening for Skiing this Weekend
Published : 07-Jun-2021 09:42
Avoriaz say that when they open for summer this coming weekend, they'll be opening some ski slopes as well as mountain bike tracks, their golf course, and other activities.
They say its because of the "exceptional amount of snowfall that fell last winter". Like most French ski areas they were unable to operate ski lifts during the winter season because of a French government ban, although most resorts were otherwise open.
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Funding For Third Ski Area for Park City Secured
Published : 06-Jun-2021 07:35
Local media is reporting that up to $260 million in bond funding from the Military Installation Development Authority has been secured by the developers of Mayflower Mountain Resort in Utah, USA.
Mayfair Mountain, first announced in 2019, is planned to be built on land next to the existing Deer Valley Resort, one of Park City's two major ski resorts, along with the Vail-run Park City Mountain, the largest ski area in the US, which combines the two former ski areas of Park City and The Canyons (formerly Park West).
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Swedish Billionaire and HEAD Boss Johan Eliasch Elected FIS President
Published : 04-Jun-2021 01:12
The British nominee to become the new head of the International Ski Federation (FIS), Swedish billionaire businessman Johan Eliasch, has been elected president in the first round of voting.
Eliasch, whose numerous business interests including being CEO of sportswear brand HEAD, secured 65 of the 119 votes available votes in the first round of polling.
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New Zealand Ski Area First To Open in Southern Hemisphere
Published : 04-Jun-2021 09:04
New Zealand's small 'club field' of Hanmer Springs has pipped the bigger ski area of Mt Ruapehu as well as Australia's largest resort Perisher to be the first to open in the southern hemisphere for the 2021 ski season.
Hanmer Springs (pictured top and at the bottom) decided to open on Thursday 3rd June following a big snowstorm which left deep snow lying on many New Zealand ski slopes. Perisher had previously decided to open a week earlier than originally planned, on Friday 4th instead of Friday 11th June. It had had cold weather for snowmaking enabling it to build a base.
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J2Ski Snow Report - June 1st 2021
Published : 01-Jun-2021 07:31
J2Ski Snow Report 1st June 2021
Making snow in Thredbo, Australia...
Northern hemisphere extends in places, southern soon to start (hopefully)...
The mountains are waiting for us... be patient, stay safe and follow your local advice and rules on travel.
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