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Good spot Mr.Beep; that's good news, although the majority of hire companies (and, importantly, the French border gents) appeared to be ignoring the regulation when it was supposedly in force anyway. Glad it's sorted out though. |
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Pretty much every trip for (cough) quite a few years... Hire from the Swiss side for convenience and quicker/simpler access to the motorway out of Geneva; hire cars in Switzerland will all be fitted with winter tyres and most will have chains in the boot. This may also now be the case on the French side (as their local regs have changed) but it used to be luck of the draw or a hefty extra charge which negated any saving you might make by renting from France. (handy hint - even if you decline to pay the often ridiculous "winterisation fee" or "chains surcharge" sometimes asked for, even on the Swiss side, you'll likely find the chains have been left in the boot in any case as it's more hassle for them to take them out!). Definitely pick "on airport" when booking your car, although you'll still take a short shuttle bus to the car park in any case (it's a 10 minute walk if you want the exercise...). Most cars have satnav so take a moment to check it's speaking English before you drive out of the airport. Plan ahead by (gasp) looking at a map first and enjoy the drive! You've got a choice of two main routes to get you to Bourg Saint Maurice; autoroute is much easier for your first time albeit less scenic. The alternative is via Annecy and Albertville; more pleasant and you can stop to admire the views or get a coffee by the lake in Annecy - BUT avoid this route at peak hour as the roads get very busy. The Autoroute is longer in distance but the time's roughly the same. From Bourg just follow the signs up to Val d'Isere. Keep a weather eye on the forecasts; the roads are generally kept clear but Snowmageddon events have a habit of hitting busy transfer days. HTH, |
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J2Ski Snow Report 28th November 2019
Snoworks All-Mountain Ski course in Cervinia looked fun this week... photo (c) Phil Smith Snow piles up in Europe, and many areas open in the US ready for Thanksgiving. The Snow Headlines - 28th November - Deepest base in the Alps (and world) reaches 4 metres already. - More than 100 US ski areas open for Thanksgiving holiday weekend. - The Southern Alps dumped on last weekend; up to 1.45 metres more snowfall. - Avoriaz announces partial opening two weeks early. - 19-20 Season gets started in Andorra and more big resorts in Pyrenees open. - Snow for final days of spring in Australia and South America. - Leading Japanese ski areas delay planned openings due to lack of snow. There have been still more huge November snowfalls in Europe, this time with the focus more in the southern Alps and with the very heaviest falls along the French/Italian border, over the weekend. Coverage was wide but accompanied by very strong winds which closed many ski areas at the weekend - and was strong enough to blow the roof off a mountain restaurant in the Swiss Jungfrau. There's been more snowfall in the past 24 hours, but it has got a little warmer, at least at resort level in lower elevation resorts. So the overall picture for the end of November is huge snow accumulations at altitude, but a mixed picture at resort-level. But it is still November! Base depths have reached 4 metres at one Italian resort, the deepest in the world, whilst another has now reported more than three metres (10 feet) of snow in the past fortnight or so, up high. Elsewhere in Europe, the season has really got underway in the Pyrenees with resorts in Andorra and bigger centres in Spain opening, and it has been snowy too in Scandinavia, the Dolomites and eastern Europe. In Scotland, however, it has warmed up and there has been rain. In the US things have turned snowier, at least in the west, with California seeing some snow at the weekend and more falling now. The snowfall is spreading east towards Utah and Colorado and some areas should get 20-50cm. Over 100 ski areas should be open there for the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend. More than 80 were open last weekend and several dozen more plan to open for the holiday period itself. Japan's ski season started last weekend too, kind of. It has been too warm and wet of late with not enough snow so several areas including Niseko have delayed opening until things improve while some, including Furano, have managed to open a few runs. In the Alpine Forecast 
More snow in the forecast for France... Yet more significant snowfall, at mid altitudes and above, is expected for the northern Alps over the weekend, with less snow but colder temperatures to the East. The outlook beyond the first week of December is very uncertain at present; we'll have more on that next week!
EUROPEAN ALPS Austria Austria now has more than 20 ski areas open and conditions are looking great after the latest snowstorms up high. Most of the country's glaciers have 2.1 – 2.8 metres of snow lying now – two metres more than there was at the start of the month, and even non-glacier areas have 1-2 metres above the 2000 metre altitude mark. Below 1500m though it's a bit more problematic and with temperatures set to be above freezing down at resort level this week it's looking like lower slopes may need snow pushed down on to them at some areas. Big resort openings this coming weekend include Ischgl, Flachau and St Anton whilst Hintertux says it now has top-to-bottom skiing open with 1750 metres of vertical. France French resorts saw more snowfall at the weekend with Tignes posting 50cm of fresh snow and - newly opened for the season - Montgenevre 55cm. There's more snow forecast here too with 30-60cm more snowfall expected in the region over the next 72 hours, so things continue to look good as more areas open. Avoriaz has announced it will partially open this weekend and next, two weeks ahead of its planned opening date, to take advantage of the early snow which is lying 50-80cm deep. About eight runs will be open and lift passes sold at a big discount on the regular rate. Elsewhere in France Alpe d'Huez, Cauterets, Chamonix and Val Thorens have also opened some terrain, although some just at weekends. Some smaller areas are open now too. Centres planning to open this weekend include Isola 2000, Les 2 Alpes, La Rosiere and Val d'Isere. Italy Italian ski areas were literally at the eye of the storm last weekend when there was a huge dump on the western side of the Italian Alps, with the very heaviest snow in the Piedmont region where up to 1.5 metres (five feet) of snow was reported at Limone ski area, not far from the Med. Further north there were big accumulations (60-90cm) on the Via Lattea/Milky way slopes and at Cervinia, which has reported more than three metres of snowfall this month and briefly reported the deepest base in the world at 3.2 metres though that has now dropped back to 2.8 metres. However, another Italian resort, the Presena glacier above Passo Tonale, has since reported a 4-metre base, the world's deepest. Switzerland More than 20 Swiss centres have already opened for the 2019-20 season and conditions are looking great, particularly on higher slopes, across the country. Andermatt is reporting the country's deepest base at 3 metres (*10 feet) and says that this weekend all 30km of runs on the Gemsstock will be open. As mentioned above, the country was hit hard by strong winds as well as heavy snow last weekend, which closed many centres on Saturday but its's now back to normal with Saas-Fee, one of those closed on Saturday, still boasting the world's biggest skiable vertical and longest run so far open (1800 metres and 9km respectively). Scandinavia Several dozen ski areas are now open in Scandinavia and fresh snowfall was being reported at the start of this week. Up in Lapland, as those watching the world cup races in Levi at the weekend will have seen, it has been snowing fairly constantly and most of the fresh snow since has been in Sweden and Finland on the eastern side of the landmass. Idre Fjäll was one of the beneficiaries and reports the region's deepest base so far at 80cm and much more terrain open than larger Are, which only has a 30cm base so far. Pyrenees The ski season has really got started in the Pyrenees this week with big Spanish areas including Baqueira Beret and Sierra Nevada opening at the weekend along with Andorra's ski slopes. Grandvalira reports 21km (about 10%) of its terrain is open already. On the French side, a few more areas have opened too, including a partial opening of Cauterets (full opening from this coming weekend), which is reporting a deeper base than resorts in the French Alps, at 1.8 metres (six-foot) lying already. Scotland Unfortunately, it's currently not looking good on Scottish slopes after the three mostly-sub-zero and increasingly snowy weeks at the start of November. Warmer weather has moved in with heavy rain on Tuesday-Wednesday and whilst the centres have stopped social media posts and there's no snow data yet, webcam images show most of the snow gone and back to heather-covered slopes. Eastern Europe The ski season is yet to start in Eastern Europe but the first centres are expected to start opening soon, possibly this coming weekend for some, although most later in December. Currently, the picture in most areas is similar to further west – snow on higher slopes above 2000 metres, little or nothing (unless machine-made) lower down yet. Bansko posted pictures of a good weekend snowfall showing snow down to resort level but current webcam images show the snow has gone again except higher up. North America Canada Canada's ski season is starting to take shape with more resorts opening, although so far mostly smaller centres in Quebec and Ontario. So far they're limited in number too with the country just getting into double figures for areas open whilst to the south, the US has reached triple digits. However British Columbia's ski season has started with Sun Peaks opening at the weekend. Whistler Blackcomb, the continent's biggest area, opens today (28th November) for Thanksgiving with others including Big White, Fernie and Silver Star following at the weekend. There's been 20-30cm more snow at Albertan areas open since earlier this month around Banff and Jasper (Sunshine, Lake Louise and Marmot Basin). The 19-20 FIS World Cup Downhill season is due to start this weekend at Lake Louise. USA It's the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend in the US which is still regarded as "bigger than Christmas" so a target for lots of ski areas to try to open some slopes for. It looks like at least 100 areas will be open today too with more planning to join them on Friday or Saturday - so about half of the world total. It's been the snowiest few days for a month in Colorado and the snowiest few days of the autumn in California so spirits are definitely up at resorts like Heavenly and Mammoth which posted 32cm and 46cm 24-hour totals respectively on Wednesday afternoon, with more snow to come. Most of the open US areas so far are in the East and Midwest, however, most with just a few runs open with machine-made snow and a little natural cover (there's been some fresh snow here too). Southern Hemisphere There's also been snow in the southern hemisphere with the start of summer 2019-20 there just days away. Ski areas in Australia and Chile posted pictures and video of snow falling. One area, Whakapapa on Mt Ruapehu in New Zealand, had already announced it would be open this coming weekend, with the final day of the season there the first of summer – Sunday, December 1st. Until next week, thanks for reading... |
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So far, so good, and we've just heard that Avoriaz plans to be (partially) open for weekends from this Saturday. |
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J2Ski Snow Report 21st November 2019
We need a bigger shovel... Stubai Glacier this week... Extraordinary amounts of snow in The Alps, as more resorts open. The Snow Headlines - 21st November - More than 100 ski areas now open in northern hemisphere (one still in southern!). - First reports of base depths reaching 3 metres (10 feet) in Alps and Dolomites. - Some glacier ski areas report 5-8 feet (1.5-2.4m) of snowfall in 7 days. - Japan's big ski resorts to start opening from Saturday. - Ski season underway in Germany on the Zugspitz, the country's highest slopes. - November snowfall breaks records (already) in parts of the Alps. It's been another exceptionally snowy week in the Alps with several areas reporting more than 1.5 metres (five feet) of fresh snowfall in the past few days (in some cases on top of similar falls the week before). November snowfalls have now hit record levels in some Alpine resorts, with a third of the month still to go and more snowfall (albeit not quite so heavy) forecast. Upper slope base depths on some glaciers which were looking worryingly thin three weeks ago have now reached three metres (10 feet) already, very deep for this early in the season. Elsewhere in Europe, there's been good snowfall in Scandinavia at the start of this week with resorts reporting up to 50cm of snowfall on Monday/Tuesday in Norway. The World Cup tour goes to Levi in Finland this weekend with its first events since Solden three weeks ago. It's a less snowy picture over in North America and it has been rather warm on the West but thanks to dozens more (mostly) smaller areas opening there in the past week the world total of open areas has now passed the 100 mark for winter 19-20 as the season gathers pace. Over in Japan, the 2019-20 ski season is due to get started in several of the country's best-known resorts this weekend, including Niseko. There has been about a foot (30cm) of snowfall so far there, which is better than this time last year, but it is not yet clear if there's enough to open. It's less than 10 days until the start of meteorological summertime in the southern hemisphere but New Zealand's Whakapapa is reported to be still opening one T Bar lift at weekends to access its remaining snow cover, reported to be still 1.8 metres (six feet) deep in places. In the Alpine Forecast 
More heavy snow in the forecast for Italy (again)... Attention turns South now, with a likely "Retour d'Est" weather pattern setting up to bring heavy snow to the south of the Alpine ridge; particularly the Aosta Valley, Dolomites, this weekend. Temperatures in the North and East of the Alps will rise above seasonal averages this week, while the snow eases back there.
EUROPEAN ALPS Austria Another week of heavy snowfall in the Austrian Alps has left bases at nearly three metres on the Pitztal glacier, and not much less on the country's other high slopes where bases were between 30 and 60cm just three weeks ago. Several areas here have had more than 1.5 metres (4.5) feet of snow in the past week, with more heavy snowfall forecast for the coming weekend. This is all good news – other than the increased off-piste avalanche danger – for the early season. Hintertux has announced it will open its full 1750m vertical from this coming weekend and other resorts are opening ever more terrain as the available ski area continues to expand across the country. France Tignes is no longer the only ski area open in France with a number of smaller resorts opening across the country including Porte Puymorens down in the Pyrenees and several smaller centres in the northern and southern Alps. Although France has not seen snowfalls as big as further east in Austria and Italy, there has been plenty of snowfall here too with Tignes issuing a powder alarm for 30cm of fresh snowfall in 24 hours last weekend. The next big French area to open will be Val Thorens this weekend, with a major opening festival planned. This event can be hit and miss for snow cover and had to be cancelled or postponed several times 4 or 5 years ago, but this autumn its looking very good indeed with 80cm of snowfall reported to be lying waiting for the first skiers and boarders. Italy Italy has reported some of the biggest snowfalls of the past week and indeed throughout November. The trend looks set to continue too with Cervinia, which posted 2.2 metres (7.3 feet) of snowfall in the last seven days forecast to see another 60cm (two feet) at the weekend. That's on top of big snowfalls in the first week of the month there too. In fact, more than a dozen Italian ski areas have posted metre-plus snowfalls in the past week, and they're mostly just the resorts that are already open, or about to, including Madonna di Campiglio, Pila, Livigno, Bormio and Monte Rosa. The Presena Glacier above Passo Tonale is reporting the deepest base in the world at present with three-metre (10 foot) depth. Switzerland Some Swiss resorts have been sharing in some of the big snowfalls of the past week, but it has been a more mixed picture here with the Southern, Central and Eastern sides of the country seeing by far the bigger accumulations of the last seven days. That said, Veysonnaz in the 4 Valleys reported 40cm of snow in 24 hours to start the week. Saas-Fee was one of the big snowfall gainers with roads closed due to avalanche danger on Monday but opening the biggest lift-served vertical of the season so far, anywhere on the planet, by Wednesday. The newly opened Valley run is 9km long and descends 1,800 vertical metres from the top of the lifts to resort. Some more big snowfalls are expected this coming weekend with Saas-Fee and Zermatt both expecting another 75cm (2.5 feet) of snow by Sunday morning. Scandinavia Norway has had rather a snowy week with over 50cm (20 inches) of snow reported by several areas. There's been lighter fresh snow in Finland and Sweden. Around 20 centres have now opened across the region with bases as deep as a metre reported already (that's a good mid-season stat for the area, so extra good this early). Levi in Finland will host both Women's and Men's World Cup Slalom competitions, the first of the 2019-20 season, this weekend and conditions there are looking good. Pyrenees Heavy snowfall forecast for the Pyrenees last weekend did not really arrive in the volumes expected as the heavier snowfall was more in central Europe and the eastern alps. However, four areas are already open here including two in Spain and two in France with Andorra's centres on schedule to open in just over a week's time. Conditions look fairly good with low temperatures allowing snowmakers to build bases and top up the natural cover. Scotland Scottish ski hills have been white for most of November as, unusually for the 21st century, temperatures have stayed low all month. In fact, overnight temperatures have neared double digits below freezing and daytime temps have hardly crept above zero Celsius on many days too. It is warming slightly now but so far not enough for a thaw and warmer weather usually mean precipitation and hopefully snow. Nowhere has opened yet but a few areas, most likely The Lecht or Cairngorm, seem like they could open soon if the good conditions continue and bases build a little more. Eastern Europe The run-up to the 19-20 season continues to look good in most areas further east in Europe with some natural snowfall and cold weather for snowmaking too. The first larger areas expected to open will be in just over a week's time at the end of the month, all being well. North America Canada More fresh snow (15-30cm) for already-open areas in Alberta around Banff and Jasper but not many new ski areas opening in the country this week. Several have opened in Ontario, where, like in the US Midwest to the south, there are ski areas without much vertical but with lots of big, high capacity lifts to get you up the low hills. Blue mountain and horseshoe ski areas have opened for 19-20 here but the number of Canadian areas open is still in single figures with none in BC open as yet. USA The US has seen dozens more ski areas open over the past week as the country nears its 'bigger-than-Christmas' Thanksgiving holiday weekend at the end of the month when a lot of business can be done if resorts are open and conditions are good. Around 60 US centres are now open from coast-to-coast, more than the rest of the world total combined. Many of the open areas are small to medium-sized resorts on the East Coast and in the Midwest which have opened thanks to recent cold weather and snow-making rather than natural snowfall. That said there has been some snowfall in the Eastern US this past week so hillsides are white. That's not the case in the far West where it has remained stubbornly warm and mostly dry in California so resorts like Mammoth still only have a handful of trails open with machine-made snow. The picture is much better in the Rockies after their record October snowfall. November has been much drier there too but there has been some snow. However, there is snow in the forecast later this week. Utah's ski season got started on Tuesday with Brighton ski area opening there. Until next week... |
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Snow Reports by e-mail - New Ski Resorts
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Hi, we have 2 Snowbowls; listed as Arizona Snowbowl and Montana Snowbowl... if there's another one we should know about then please let us know! 8) |
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Snow Reports by e-mail - New Ski Resorts
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That's already available BB - just go to your Profile, select Add a Ski Area, select Japan and then Nozawa Onsen. Enjoy! |
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J2Ski Snow Report 14th November 2019
The Gemsstock, Andermatt, open weekends until December... Snow this just happened... big snowfalls across Europe. The Snow Headlines - 14th November - Huge snowfalls in the Austrian Alps; up to 80cm in 24 hours... with more on the way. - Season gets started early in French and Spanish Pyrenees. - More than 20 US areas already open for 19-20 season as cold weather spreads East. - Two killed in the first fatal off-piste avalanche of 19-20. - Cortina kicks off Dolomites ski season 20 days early. - Cold weather in northern Europe means good November in Scotland and Scandinavia. - More big-name resorts opening this weekend including Are, Crans Montana, Davos and Steamboat. Is it too early to get excited about all the snowfall in Western Europe in the first half of November? Some resorts have had more than 1.5 metres (five feet) of snow since November 1st, and the snowfall in recent days has gone down to valley floors below 1,000 metres altitude. It's not just the Alps either, ski areas in the Dolomites and Pyrenees have opened early for the season in the past week and it seems to be looking good in Scandinavia, much of eastern Europe and even Scotland is having a mostly sub-zero and sometimes snowy November so far. Of course, it could still all go horribly wrong but so far the signs are very good and there's even a load more snow in the forecast for the next week, with big snowfalls expected again in the Alps, Dolomites and Pyrenees in particular from Friday on. There are more than 20 ski areas already open and more big names set to open over the next few days including Are in Sweden, Obergurgl and Schladming in Austria, Formigal in Spain and Crans Montana and Davos in Switzerland. So we'll be past 40 open in Europe by Saturday. It's a more complicated picture in North America where more resorts are open in the US now than any other country by some distance, in fact, more than double the nearest competitor (Austria). But that's not so much down to big snowfalls as a big dip in temperatures which allowed resorts on the East (including Sunday River), Midwest and in California (Mammoth) to open last weekend. More big-name resorts including Squaw Valley, Steamboat and Vail should open this weekend. In the Alpine Forecast 
More heavy snow in the forecast for Italy... More heavy snow in the forecast, particularly for the south side of the Alpine ridge, in the next few days. Further snow expected to the North and West of The Alps, after which temperatures should moderate and the weather settle for a while.
EUROPEAN ALPS Austria After being overtaken by the US for 'most ski areas open' last week, Austria has been making headlines this past week for the right reasons – huge snowfalls, and also sadly the wrong ones – the first avalanche deaths of 19-20. Two Dutch skiers were killed in an avalanche off-piste at Solden. The snow in Austria this week has been exceptional for early November, both in volume and the fact that it has brought heavy snow down to low altitude slopes and village. There's been so much snow up high though it has caused operational issues at some glacier ski areas this week with access roads blocked and lifts buried, but also some great conditions during clear spells between the heavy snowstorms (which are continuing). Obergurgl and Schladming are among areas opening for the season over the next few days. France France is getting its share of big snowfalls too with many of the country's resorts, which are due to begin opening en-masse in a little over a week's time, now reporting more than a metre of snow lying on upper slopes and 40-60cm in resort. Here too there's plenty more snow in the immediate forecast. For now, only Tignes remains open but some slopes in the Chamonix Valley may open at the weekend (yet to be confirmed) and down in the Pyrenees at least one ski area will open, confirmed, Porte Puymorens (see Pyrenees section below). Italy There have been some big snowfalls across Italy too in the past week with the eastern side of the country and the Dolomites posting the biggest totals – over a metre in 'yet to open' Val Gardena. A little further west, Livigno (now open at weekends) and Bormio both report 70cm of fresh snow. The 50cm or so that had already fallen by last weekend led Cortina d'Ampezzo to make a quick decision to open 20 days early for the season last Sunday. Otherwise, there are four Italian areas open daily – Cervionia, Sulda, Val Senales and the Presena Glacier. Switzerland Seven Swiss ski areas are now open with Glacier 3000 (near Gstaad and Les Diablerets) as well as Andermatt's Gemsstock area and Verbier opening their slopes for the season at the weekend, joining already open Engelberg, Saas-Fee, St Moritz (Diavolezza glacier) and Zermatt. Three more – Crans Montana, Davos and Grimentz - have so far said they plan to open this coming weekend meaning Switzerland should be one of three countries where the number of areas open is in double figures by Saturday. Here too there's been lots of fresh snow over the past week and there's plenty in the forecast. The ski areas around St Moritz have reported the most fresh snow with 70-90cm this week. Scandinavia There are more than a dozen ski areas open in Finland, Norway and Sweden now with that number set to double for each of the next few weekends. The region's biggest ski area, Are in Sweden, is among those scheduled to open this Saturday. Generally, it's looking like a good start to winter 2019-20 in the region with low temperatures for snow-making and some fresh natural snowfall too. Bases are currently in the range of 30-90cm with the deepest reported snow at open areas in Sweden. Pyrenees The ski season got underway in the Pyrenees on Wednesday with the Alp 2500 ski area (shared by La Molina and Masella) in Spain opening first, as it was in 2018, although that year it was open by 1st November after a big late-October snowstorm. A second Spanish ski area, Formigal, say they'll be opening early for the season this Saturday. The French ski area Porte Puymorens has also announced it plans to open some terrain in its Vignole sector on the 16th too. There's been plenty of snowfall in the Pyrenees so it's looking good, so far, for the main start of the season, which for many resorts in the region will be a fortnight later on the last weekend of the month. However with the forecast for more snow over the coming week, it seems likely more areas will decide to open early. Scotland Scottish ski areas have been enjoying more snowfall after the brief thaw last week. The forecast for the week ahead is for more snowfall and low temperatures continuing into the latter half of November, so whilst conditions can change quickly on Scottish mountains it currently looks promising for the season getting underway once bases are deep enough. Most of the centres are also firing up their snow-making systems. Eastern Europe The snow cover continues to build on most of the mountain ranges in eastern Europe too. So far none have reported early openings with most targeting December 7/8 or one of the following two weekends for their season starts. However, it may come early to some if the snow conditions continue to improve still further. North America Canada Alberta is the place to be in in Canada if you want to ski at the moment with five areas already open for winter 19-20 here and a nice 20-30cm of fresh snow topping up already good cover here at the weekend. All three Banff ski centres are open as well as 1988 Olympic centre Nakiska and Marmot Basin up near Jasper. Over on the east of the country, temperatures have finally dropped in Quebec allowing the first area to open there, Mont Sainte Sauveur, last weekend. USA The US is seeing the most ski areas operating with another 10 or so opening last weekend and similar numbers more expected this coming weekend, meaning about half-the world's total open areas will be in the US by Saturday; something Austria was claiming three or four weeks ago! The latest resorts to open included Breckenridge and Copper in Colorado and Mammoth in California as well as half-a-dozen or so ski areas in the Midwest and on the East Coast. Sunday River in Maine was the biggest opener there. Actual snow conditions are a mixed picture across the country. In the northwest and the Rockies ski areas are still benefiting from one of the snowiest Octobers in recent years but further south in the West there's been almost no natural snowfall and resorts like Mt Rose in Nevada, Mammoth in California and Sipapu in New Mexico are fully reliant on snow-making to open; and only have a run or two open. In the Midwest it has been very cold and snowy at times and in the east, the warm October is behind them and there has been some natural snowfall (many areas reporting 15-25cm of fresh snow in recent days) but again it is snow-making that has been allowing them to open. Southern Hemisphere It's just a few weeks until summertime in New Zealand but one centre, Whakapapa on Mt Ruapehu is still opening one run at weekends for determined skiers and boarders there, the only centre still open for 2019 in the Southern Hemisphere. |
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