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Sounds like a fun trip! 8)
Personally, for a big ol' truck like a Shogun, I wouldn't risk it with a "textile" option (I'm assuming you're including something like the Snow Sock?) and would definitely carry chains. Hopefully you're aware but the M&S marking on its own isn't enough to guarantee your tyres will be good in the snow; they need to show the mountain/snowflake symbol too :- 
See How to recognize a winter tyre As long as you do have proper winters/4-seasons with the snowflake, you'll likely only need chains very occasionally but you should check with your Shogun's manual or Mitsubishi as to whether you need all 4 wheels covered; I think some 4x4 are ok with just one pair but some need all. As to brand, you've got lots of options but if you're on a road-trip then it's worth spending the extra to get good quality. |
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J2Ski Snow Report 25th October 2018
Alpine Snow accumulations by Monday; Switzerland in the middle, orange is 50cm, dark red is 1m+! Image courtesy of the excellent Ventusky J2Ski Snow Report 25th October 2018 And... there's snow in the forecast, and quite a lot of it! October 25th Snow Headlines - Big snowfalls expected from this weekend across Europe - At least 9 ski areas expected to be open in US to end October, compared to 2 last year. - 2018-19 World Cup ski season scheduled to begin with races in Solden this week. - California's 2018-19 season underway. - More than 20 ski areas now open in Northern Hemisphere. - Killington and Sunday River start ski season in Eastern North America. - Southern Hemisphere 2018 season over. - Three ski resorts open already in Colorado. After a largely warm, dry, October a return of winter is forecast for the Alps and indeed much of Europe from the start of the weekend to end the month. The biggest snowfalls are expected on the South side of the Alps where substantial snow could accumulate by the end of the month, although snowfall looks likely across a wide area. The Eastern Alps, Dolomites, Pyrenees, Scotland, Scandinavia, Bulgaria and parts of North America should also see good snowfalls on their ski slopes too, just not so much. Fresh snow will be particularly welcome on the dozen or so Alpine glaciers that have been struggling to maintain skiable terrain after another week of mostly warm conditions. That said, it has got colder since the weekend in some areas with some midweek snow falling on high Austrian slopes. Regardless of too much or too little snow by Saturday, the FIS has however given permission for Solden to stage its annual World Cup season opening weekend. Last weekend was unusually active for mid-October in North America with three ski areas opening in Colorado as well as Sunday River in Maine and Killington in Vermont, the first in the East for the 18-19 season. California's Mt Rose Ski Tahoe started their season a week earlier than planned thanks to snowmaking. Snow in Battersea Park! Today sees the annual London Ski and Snowboard Festival get underway in Battersea Park. In the Alpine Forecast The "distinct change" we flagged in last week's Snow Report has shaped up into a bit of a monster; cold temperatures and wide-spread heavy snow is going to be pushing into The Alps this weekend. Accumulations of a metre or more are quite possible across a wide area, with the biggest snowfalls to the South of the main Alpine ridge; much of Austria, southern Switzerland and northern Italy will be affected. Caveat! The weather systems producing the expected storm(s) are, by their very nature, extremely dynamic and difficult to forecast precisely. Considerable disruption to travel and lift operations is likely, with very localized snowfall in places. 
See where it's expected to snow this week...
EUROPEAN ALPS Austria Most of Austria's glaciers, plus Kitzbuhel, are now open and it should be a bit of a holding pattern for the next three weeks until the 'main' season begins just after mid-November with Obertauern and Obergurgl likely to open first. Solden will stage the first World Cup races of the northern hemisphere's 18-19 campaign this weekend on its glacier as it has done for more than three decades now. Conditions should be getting increasingly wintery on Austrian slopes over the coming week. There was actually some snowfall reported on Austrian glaciers midweek as a prelude to what's about to come this weekend. France The French ski season started last week at Tignes, a little over a fortnight after the scheduled start date, when glacier snow-grooming teams managed to move enough snow around to create a thin cover acceptable for good to advanced skiers to make some turns on. In what's thought to be an unprecedented move, access is limited to morning or afternoon sessions with skiers and boarders required to wear a coloured arm band depending on which they choose. Les 2 Alpes, which was due to open from this weekend for a week, had previously announced it will not open for its mid-autumn glacier ski week for the second year in a row, as there's no decent snow cover on the glacier. That could all change from this weekend however if the forecast snowfalls arrive as expected. Italy Cervinia re-opened last weekend joining Val Senales and Passo Stelvio to give Italians a choice of three glacier ski areas once again. Two more areas, Sulden and Passo Tonale, say they'll open this weekend too taking Italy's open total to five, third in the world behind the USA and Austria. We're in to the last few days of the unusual spring-autumn six month season at Passo Stelvio now. It normally closes after the last weekend of October, or first of November and this year says next week will culminate in a five day end-of-season party to the 4th November. Cervinia, which is currently closed midweek, will be open daily until next May from this Saturday on, so it has the other six months of the year covered. Val Senales is primarily open for ski team training but there is a limited area open to the general skiing public too. As with the rest of the alps, Italian slopes are expecting big snowfalls from this weekend onward. Switzerland The number of Swiss ski areas grew by 50% last weekend – from two to three – with the Diavolezza glacier in the Engadin Valley joining Saas Fee and Zermatt. Next to open may be Engelberg's Titlis glacier but it keeps setting back its target opening date back by a week or so, most recently to give Thursday 1st November as the earliest possible date, but not confirmed. As with the rest of the Alps some big snow falls are expected in Switzerland over the coming weekend and in to next week. Scandinavia It shouldn't be long until more Scandinavian ski areas open, joining Ruka in Finnish Lapland which did so a fortnight ago using snow saved from last season. There have been some colder days and fresh snow on the fells but still it's a bit early for most. Levi will be next up after Solden with World Cup competition in just a few weeks' time. Snow is forecast here at the weekend but generally only small accumulations. However snowmaking systems will be able to operate at capacity. Pyrenees There's been more snowfall in the Pyrenees and further south on Sierra Nevada the peaks are looking very white indeed, but it's still a month until the season is due to start here, unless there are any surprise early openings. Significant snowfall is expected here too from the weekend. Scotland More snowfall is expected on Scottish slopes over the weekend when an 'Arctic Blast' is forecast to hit northern hills and mountains, to the malicious glee of tabloid newspapers and genuine glee of Scottish snow lovers. Whether we will have a repeat of The Lecht's Halloween opening, last seen almost 20 years ago, remains to be seen. Eastern Europe There's nowhere reported open yet in eastern Europe but snowfalls are expected here as well, on higher slopes, over the weekend. North America Although there's no ski area planning to open in Canada before the start of November there's been a bit of an early opening frenzy in the USA with half a dozen areas from coast to coast last weekend and more planning to join them this weekend. There has been some new snowfall (and more is forecast) but most of the areas opening did so thanks to snow-making. The Colorado total is now up to three with Arapahoe Basin and Loveland joining first-to-open Wolf Creek. The first ski area in California, Mt Rose Ski Tahoe also opened and on the East Coast both Killington in Vermont and Sunday River in Maine opened some terrain with snowmaking. Among the resorts that have so far announced plans to open this weekend are Mount Snow, a second area in Vermont, Wildcat Mountain in New Hampshire with its earliest ever opening, and Lookout Pass in Idaho will open trails and lifts Sunday. Southern Hemisphere The ski season in the southern hemisphere ended earlier this week when the last areas open on Mt Ruapehu on New Zealand's North Island decided to call it a day on winter 2018, despite having more than three metres of snow still lying on the slopes. |
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Arapahoe Basin Snow Reports - January 2017
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Looking good... but is the date right for the picture? 8)
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J2Ski Snow Report 18th October 2018
Arapahoe Basin, Colorado, ready to open this weekend... J2Ski Snow Report 18th October 2018 The northern hemisphere season is slowly getting under way... and if you're in the UK you can get your winter kick-started with the London Ski and Snowboard Festival (Ticket Competition here!) October 18th Snow Headlines - Wolf Creek opens in US after heavy snowfall. - Kitzbuhel is first non-glacier resort in the Alps to open. - Arapahoe Basin and Loveland, Colorado to open Friday/Saturday. - Thin snow cover on Europe's glaciers - Les 2 Alpes cancels October opening. - Cervinia due to open this weekend for 2018-19 ski season. - Swiss ski areas Diavolezza and Engelberg due to open. - Snowmaking underway in New England. It's been a week of mixed fortunes in the ski world. More resorts have opened in the Alps, and there have been big snowfalls in North America leading to the season beginning there sooner than expected, but against that glacier areas are struggling to open, or stay open, with very little snow cover so far on the ice. Kitzbuhel became the first non-glacier ski area to open in the Alps last weekend, taking the total of areas open in the alps to double figures; but many of the glaciers remain on thin ice – or rather thin snow on the ice – and there's disappointment from France with Les 2 Alpes announcing that it won't be running its glacier ski and board festival (planned for the end of this month) for the second year in a row because there's not enough snow. The big news of the past week, however, was some big snowfall in the US which brought huge 72-hour totals – as much as a very un-seasonal 70cm – to resorts in Colorado and Utah whilst covering a much wider area; as far as North Dakota and Texas. As a result Colorado's Wolf Creek opened at the weekend, one of the earliest US resort openings in years. It can also claim to be the first ski area without a glacier in the world to open 'this season' using fresh snowfall! Two more Colorado ski areas will open this weekend. In the southern hemisphere we're down to the last four areas open for 2018 in the Andes and New Zealand with all looking set to close at the end of this coming weekend. Snow in the Forecast for Battersea Park! Next week sees the annual London Ski and Snowboard Festival... and we've got some tickets you can win! Just enter our Ski Show Ticket Competition. In the Alpine Forecast A distinct change is coming into the forecast for the last week of October, with cooling temperatures and snow now featuring repeatedly in the long-range model runs. More on that next week! 
See where it's expected to snow this week...
EUROPEAN ALPS Austria With eight ski areas open Austria has more ski resorts to choose from than almost the rest of the world combined. Two more resorts opened at the weekend – the Kitzsteinhorn glacier and Kitzbuhel, the latter the first in the Alps without a glacier to open – taking the total to eight. Despite some good snowfalls over the past few months snow depths in the country remain very marginal on the glaciers after a mostly warm summer and early autumn. Hintertux reports the deepest at 65cm and the Molltal glacier which recently re-opened after three weeks closure whilst awaiting from snow 39cm but the other six areas have less than 30cm (a foot) of snow lying on top of the ice (or in Kitzbuhel's case, grass). France Tignes managed a partial opening of their glacier area yesterday, with a handful of lifts giving some skiing under blue skies. Unfortunately, Les 2 Alpes has announced that for the second year running it won't be able to run its special end-of-October ski and board week on the glacier. Italy Two ski areas are currently open in Italy with Passo Stelvio – which has been open since May – looking much the better with a claimed 2 metre base, one of the best in the Alps. There's only a fortnight or so left of the season there though as it usually shuts down around the end of October as other areas start opening. Cervinia is due to be next up, opening this coming weekend for the weekend only then permanently from the final weekend of October onwards. It's not yet clear if Cervinia's own glacier skiing will be open or if it will be providing access to the year-round Klein Matterhorn 'glacier paradise' above Zermatt as it did in the latter half of its summer opening. The other Italian option, Val Senales, reports only a 10cm base. It was previously only open to race teams for training due to the limited cover but has recently managed to reopen an additional area for recreational skiers and boarders following "heroic efforts" by ski piste staff. Switzerland The two Swiss glacier areas that have been open since July (Saas Fee) or indeed haven't really closed except for bad weather for many years (Zermatt) remain the only two open at present in the country as Engelberg will open the Titlis glacier area this weekend. Saas Fee has a 1.8m base and Zermatt reports 3 metres – the second deepest in the world at present behind Mt Ruapehu in New Zealand. Both have about 15km of terrain open so are in good shape compared to most of the other glaciers. The Diavolezza glacier in the Engadin region, sometimes referred to as the third ski area at St Moritz, is also due to open this weekend so the number of open Swiss areas could double by this time next week! Eastern Europe There remains nowhere open in Eastern Europe so far. Scotland Scottish hills have seen more fresh snowfalls in the past week but no areas are close to opening yet. Pyrenees Ski areas in the Pyrenees are unlikely to open until the end of November or start of December. Scandinavia Ruka, which opened on the first Saturday of the month in Finnish Lapland, remains the only ski area in Scandinavia currently open. The resort uses snow 'farmed' from last season and spread back out on the slopes to make about a 1km ski run. North America Canada There's nowhere open in Canada at present. The first areas expected to open are in the Calgary and Banff area of Alberta with Nakiska, Sunshine and Mt Norquay all scheduled to open within the first week or so of November. USA There was excitement for snow fans in the US at the end of last week with the biggest early October snowfall in years bringing up to 70cm of snow to resorts in Colorado and Utah with the snow extending to a much wider area including some very unlikely destinations for snow any time of year, let alone early October, such as Texas. Despite the big snowfalls, the usually early-opening of Arapahoe Basin and Loveland didn't open last weekend but a third Colorado area, Wolf Creek, did, reporting a 70cm base and about 70 trails open at the weekend served by three lifts. Wolf Creek says it will now close midweek but re-open at weekends through October. It's not yet clear if any other US areas will join it this coming weekend but a further 15cm of snowfall was reported in Colorado on Sunday night bringing 7 day totals close to a metre. Arapahoe Basin and Loveland have now announced they're opening on Friday and Saturday this week. On the east coast snow-making got underway on Monday night at Killington in Vermont which can open in October some years if conditions are cold enough. Southern Hemisphere Unless one of the two remaining ski areas still open decides to extend the season further it looks like this is the final week of 'winter' 2018 (although now half way through spring) in New Zealand. Mt Ruapehu on the North Island still has the deepest snow base in the world at 3.4m and got 5cm of fresh snow at the weekend. Cardrona is also in to its final week and reports a 1.5m base. All of Australia's ski areas are believed to be closed but Nevados de Chillan in Chile and Catedral in Argentina are still reported open in South America. Although the former only at weekends, and it reports the next will be its last of the winter. Although it hasn't been the greatest winter for snow accumulation Catedral is still getting fresh snowfall with a sizeable fall in the past few days. Until next week... thanks for reading! |
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Yes, it's that time of year again - and we've got 4 pairs of tickets to give away in one of our usual, easy-to-enter competitions.
The Telegraph Ski and Snowboard Festival returns to Battersea Park, London in just a weeks time and will be open from Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th October. 
You can find out more here, but remember to come back here to enter the ticket competition! PLEASE NOTE :- The tickets can be for any day of the show, but you'll need to tell us which day if you win. Each of 4 winners will get 1 Pair of tickets. Competition will close at midnight this Saturday (20th October) and winners will be notified immediately and need to confirm their attendance within 24 hours please so we can let the organisers know. To enter, use this link and follow the instructions :- Enter the Ski Show Ticket Competition! |
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THE FWT19 CALENDAR In 2019, Freeride World Tour (FWT) athletes will return to five of the most challenging and pristine freeride venues the globe has to offer. 50 of the world's best freeriders in four categories – ski men, ski women, snowboard men, and snowboard women – will face-off in big mountain arenas spanning across three continents for their chance to be Freeride World Champion. Following the fourth stop in Vallnord-Arcalís (Andorra) only riders holding enough points will have the opportunity to compete in the final stop in Verbier, Switzerland in March. With an incredible lineup of riders already confirmed - from hungry rookies, hard charging veterans and legendary wild cards such as Tanner Hall (USA) and Victor De Le Rue (FRA) - the FWT19 is shaping up to be an epic show. And without further ado, the FWT19 calendar: 1) HAKUBA, JAPAN - THE WINTER BEGINS JANUARY 19-26, 2019 2) KICKING HORSE GOLDEN BC, CANADA - TIME TO GET ROWDY FEBRUARY 02-08, 2019 3) FIEBERBRUNN, AUSTRIA - HOLD THE LINE FEBRUARY 22-28, 2019 4) VALLNORD-ARCALÍS, ANDORRA - CRUNCH TIME MARCH 02-08, 2019 5) VERBIER, SWITZERLAND - THE GRANDE FINALE MARCH 23 - 31, 2019 Don't miss any rider news and competition information. Follow FWT social media channels and stay tuned to www.freerideworldtour.com as the competition season approaches! 
Photo courtesy of Freeride World Tour, copyright D.Daher FWT 19 ATHLETE ROSTER Defending FWT champions, hungry rookies and freeride legends join the tour as season wildcards to make up the talent packed FWT19 rider roster, which became official today. 48 of the world's best (in four categories - 10 Ski Women, 22 Ski Men, 7 Snowboard Women and 9 Snowboard Men) will battle it out at five world renowned venues spanning three continents for their chance to stand on the podium. With such an extraordinary pool of athletes FWT19 is shaping up to be an extremely exciting and high-level competition. SKI WOMEN Arianna Tricomi (ITA) will be back for FWT19 looking to defend her title while continuing to push the boundaries for female freeriders. Hedvig Wessel (NOR) and Maude Besse (SUI) will join the tour as season wildcards keen to prove that they have what it takes to claim podium spots. Rookies to watch will be Juliette Willmann (FRA) and Jacqueline Pollard (USA) who both earned their spots on the FWT19 thanks to their strong performances on the FWQ. SKI MEN Kristoffer Turdell (SWE) will have his work cut out for him this season. Wildcards Drew Tabke (USA), two time world champion in freeriding discipline, Tanner Hall (USA), backcountry freestyle pioneer, and the always dangerous Aymar Navarro (ESP), are all looking to dethrone the FWT18 champion. With big results on the FWQ, Wadeck Gorak (FRA), Konstantin Ottner (GER), Hank Bilous (NZL), Andrew Polslard (USA), Tom Peiffer (CAN) and Liam Peiffer (CAN) will compete amongst the world's best. SNOWBOARD MEN The big question for this category is if someone will be able to stop Sammy Luebke (USA) from claiming his fourth consecutive FWT title. Big mountain specialist, Victor De Le Rue (FRA) the season wildcard and rookies, Chrisopher Galvin (USA) and Ludovic Guillot-Diat (FRA) will certainly be hoping to end Luebke's historic run. SNOWBOARD WOMEN Manuela Mandl (AUT) will be back on tour and hungry as ever to defend her world title. However, season wildcard, Wakana Hama (JPN) and rookies, Maria Kuzma (NZL) and Nicole Kelly (CAN) who earned their spots from the FWQ will make progression and strong riding a must for any rider hoping to win podiums in this category. |
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Our friends at Snowtrex are having one of their Crazy Booking Nights this Thursday - 18th October - with some amazing deals on March Ski Holidays to dozens of Austrian and French Ski Resorts (prices start from €99 for Accommodation AND Lift Pass!). 
Click the image above or go to www.snowtrex.co.uk |
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I had a week on these last season and they're a very good all-round, all-mountain ski - fun everywhere. "Supershape" -> ski them short.
I'm a little heavier than you (85kg), similar height and ski fast enough to keep up with an 11-year-old with no fear... :lol: The 170s were perfect. |
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