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You're all wrong. Last winter ended on the 30th April. This winter started on the 1st May. Who needs any other seasons? Hah.
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It will be Thursday... probably. 8)
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Yes, it's a great little resort.
It's pretty sad that they have to employ folk to drop link spam in forums though - perhaps you'd like to direct your client to our advertising pages? Thanks, Admin p.s. your account here is now locked. |
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Austria's Kaunertal glacier will officially open for the 2009-10 snow sports season on October 16th, with an opening festival weekend running through to the 18th. It's one of the earliest opening dates for a northern hemisphere resort.
The event will include snowboard and freeski contests, concerts and parties as well as the "Testival" which includes brand new material for the 09/10 season. The full programme is now online at http://www.kaunertal-opening.at/ Courtesy of and © Snow24 plc |
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This season will be the 150th anniversary of the founding of the town of Breckenridge, Colorado, and will also mark 25 years of snowboarding at Breckenridge Ski Resort.
The resort was one of the first to embrace snowboarding, and to host one of the initial major snowboard competitions in the industry, The World Snowboarding Championships, or "The World's," in 1986. Today, snowboarding has made its mark on the ski industry worldwide and is a major component of the 'Breckenridge experience.' The resort continues its support of the snowboarding community and industry by hosting major events such as the Winter Dew Tour, and fostering the careers of up-and-comers through the Breckenridge FreeRide Team and open qualifying events. The resort has four terrain parks and three pipes, including the top-ranked Freeway Terrain Park/Pipe and a park progression system for beginners and intermediates. The Winter Dew Tour returns to Breckenridge for its second year on December 17 – 20. The tour consists of three major, multi-sport events spanning across the US, with a cumulative points system, and a $1.5 million competitive purse. Each event features men and women's snowboard (superpipe and slopestyle), and men's freeskiing (superpipe and slopestyle). At season's end, the overall point's leaders in the six disciplines are crowned champions and awarded the prestigious Dew Cup. Courtesy of and © Snow24 plc |
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This summer, Squaw Valley USA's old double chair, the-High Camp Lift, is being removed to make way for the new High Camp Triple Chairlift.
The change is needed because over recent seasons the Monster Park at Riviera has seen a huge expansion. Providing access to the Ford Belmont Park, the Riviera Superpipe, and the numerous jump lines and jib features of the Central Park and High Camp Rail Yard, the High Camp Chair has become the hub for park riders of all tastes and abilities. The new High Camp Triple Chairlift improves access to the multiple terrain parks and also to the High Camp area's vast beginner terrain, restaurants, ice skating rink, Lagoon & Spa, and Olympic Museum. Squaw Valley's snowmaking department is also spending summer 2009 continuing a multi year vast overhaul of the resort's existing snowmaking system. Most notable is the addition of a three mile pipeline to more efficiently transfer water from storage ponds to the snowmaking building and a new 1200 horsepower air compressor that doubles Squaw Valley's snowmaking capability. Courtesy of and © Snow24 plc |
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A new gondola at Plan de Corones in Italy's huge Dolomiti Superski is a world first, the resort claims.
The 10 seater "Marchner" cableway will have a capacity of 3,000 skiers-per-hour and the cabins are fitted with what the resort describes as, "elegant heated leather chairs." The lift replaces a detachable chairlift which is being removed, but the route has been modified so that, unlike the previous structure, it has an uphill station close to the downhill station of the Belvedere lift. In the same region, the six seater "Cianross" lift at San Vigilio di Marebbe which was damaged by an avalanche in spring 2007, will return to work at the start of the 2009/2010 season. Guests will now again be able to use the "Corn" and "Cianross" slopes, equipped for night skiing, as well as for the bob slope. Courtesy of and © Snow24 plc |
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Have a look at Le Chable; the small town in the valley below Verbier. It's directly linked by Gondola but likely to have much more affordable apartments / flats for season rental. There's really not much (if any) "cheap" accommodation in Verbier... reckon you could become quite disturbed after 3 months in the bunker!
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