Ski Resort and Snow News - February 2014
French Embassy Issue Statement of British Ski Instructing in France
Published : 28-Feb-2014 08:26
The French Embassy in the UK have issued a statement on the current publicity about French police action against a British ski instructor.
The statement is headed, referencing the headlines in recent reports in the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph is entitled: "Piste war? No, France loves British skiers and British ski instructors" and begins,
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March Party Weeks in The Skiwelt
Published : 27-Feb-2014 06:40
Three weeks of parting in the 70+ ski huts of Austria' Skiwelt (skiwelt.at) are just getting underway, with ski instructors from the area's 19 ski schools also acting as slope guides from the 8th to 30th March. They'll be advising on the best runs, most beautiful slopes, sunniest descents and cosiest ski huts – free of charge.
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J2Ski Snow Report - February 27th 2014
Published : 27-Feb-2014 05:39
Week Ending February 28th, 2014
Snow Report Summary
The last 48 hours have seen some useful snowfalls in The Alps, moreso to the West and North so far, and the next few days will see further areas benefit from new snow.
This Week's Headlines:
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British Sochi Results Best Ever
Published : 26-Feb-2014 12:12
The Sochi 2014 Olympics were the most successful Winter Games to date for British skiers and snowboarders with six top ten finishes including the bronze medal for Jenny Jones in Ladies Snowboard Slopestyle.
Five of those six high rankings were thanks to the introduction of Ski and Snowboard Slopestyle with James Woods placing fifth of 32 competitors in Ski Slopestyle, Jamie Nicholls sixth of 29 competitors in Snowboard Slopestyle, Katie Summerhayes 7th of 22 competitors in Ski Slopestyle, Zoe Gillings pipped by a whisker for the final of the Snowboard Cross and ultimately finishing 9th of 24 competitors and Billy Morgan 10th of 29 competitors – Snowboard Slopestyle.
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Schumacher Recovery Attempts Are On-Going
Published : 25-Feb-2014 07:21
Nearly two months after his accident on the slopes above Meribel the medical attempts to gently wake him from the induced coma he was placed in immediately after arriving in hospital remain on-going according to the Formula 1 star's manager.
A German magazine speculated a few days ago that the attempts to wake Mr Schumacher from his coma, first reported to be under way on January 30th, had been abandoned. Refuting this, his manager said the important thing was not the speed of treatment but that it is carried out in a measured way.
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More British Ski Instructors Jailed in France
Published : 24-Feb-2014 07:55
Following last winter's furore when British 'ski hosts' were arrested on the slopes by French authorities, it has emerged that last week saw arrests of seven more British ski teachers in France, including tour operator Simon Butler.
Mr Butler has had several 'run ins' with French authorities in Megeve over the years and is currently appealing an existing convictions for employing instructors without an acceptable level of qualification. Mr Butler says he does have the required certification.
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J2Ski Snow Report - February 20th 2014
Published : 20-Feb-2014 11:23
Week Ending February 21st, 2014
Snow Report Summary
Following yet more snow, just about everywhere, the next few days will be mainly clear and cool in Europe - although with some useful snow expected tomorrow. North and West look likely to get the best falls, with 10-30cm widely forecast.
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Macmillan Cancer Support Day at Glenshee
Published : 19-Feb-2014 09:10
With Scottish ski areas reporting record business, and record snow cover, it seems a good time to stage a special fund raising day for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Being billed as the biggest day ion the Scottish snowsports calendar, the event, at Glenshee ski area on Saturday 8th March (or on the 9th if the weather is bad) will see a full day of events with Alain Baxter, famously Britain's first ever snowsports Olympic medal winner, the special guest skier.
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A Better Way To Reach the 3 Valleys
Published : 18-Feb-2014 10:13
A new way of reaching the 3 Valleys is about to launch thanks to the initiative of a British entrepreneur, fed up with the usual choices of hire car, transfer bus or private transfer/taxi.
The idea behind 'FluidCar' (fluidcar.com), which launches on March 1st, is that you arrive in Geneva and are met by a Fluidcare employee, who escorts you to your luxury 4x4 vehicle – this season an Audi Q5. You drive to the 3 Valleys, unload your bags and hand over the vehicle to another Fluidcar employee. Then when it's time to head back, the process is reversed.
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Skies Clear After More Heavy Snow Across The Alps
Published : 17-Feb-2014 08:47
A wave of heavy snowfall that has been crossing the Alps has brought large snowfalls to Austrian slopes overnight, after French resorts reported big accumulations over the weekend.
Many resorts across the region are reporting 20-30cm (8-12 inches) of fresh snow in the past 24 hours, including St Anton, Obergurgl (pictured above), Kaprun and the Kitzsteinhorn glacier, Ischgl and the Zillertal Arena. Webcams are now showing skies clearing.
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Bode Miller Set To Become Oldest Olympic Alpine Male Medallist
Published : 16-Feb-2014 08:10
With 40 racers having completed the Men's Super G competition at the Sochi Olympics this morning, Bode Miller in joint bronze medal position with Canadian racer Jan Hudec, looks set to become the oldest Alpine skier to medal at an Olympics.
36 year old Miller, who is competing in his fifth Olympics having first raced at Nagano in 1998, and has already won five Olympic medals including one gold, was .53 of a second behind winner Kjetil Jansrud of Norway. Bode's fellow American Andrew Weibrecht was in silver position .3 of a second off the winning time. Miller has the most Olympic medals of any US ski racer.
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Chemmy's Last Olympic Race
Published : 15-Feb-2014 04:30
Chemmy Alcott made her third appearance of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games earlier today, competing in the Ladies' Super-G.
She finished 23rd in a time of 1:29.14 minutes and immediately after crossing the line looked less than pleased with her final Olympic race. Chemmy Alcott (Alpine Skiing)
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Ski Area Opens In Iraq
Published : 14-Feb-2014 01:16
While the world's focus has been on the new ski area opening in North Korea last month, another asian ski area, this one with an officially sanctioned Doppelmayr gondola, has just opened in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq.
Korek Mountain Resort (thekorekmountainresort.com – not functioning when we tried to look) officially opened this week according to a BBC Report, even though snow conditions are currently below average. The local Erbil area has just been selected as the 2014 Arab Tourism destination of the year.
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Woodsy Finishes Fifth
Published : 13-Feb-2014 07:30
James 'Woodsy' Woods who learnt his freestyle skills on the dry slope in Sheffield and rose to be the current Crystal Globe holder in World Cup Skiing Slopestyle finished fifth in the Olympics finals today in Sochi.
Woods finished third in qualifying earlier this morning and after his first final run, 10th of the 12 remaining, he was in silver medal position, but the two skiers after him pushed him down to fourth at the end of the first run.
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J2Ski Snow Report - February 13th 2014
Published : 13-Feb-2014 07:06
Week Ending February 14th, 2014
Snow Report Summary
More snow fell in many areas of the Northern Hemisphere today, with the outlook pretty promising too...
This Week's Headlines:
* 5ft+ (165cm) of fresh snow at Squaw Valley as California dumped on big time.
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19th Place "A Gold For Me" Says Chemmy on Sochi Olympic Performance
Published : 12-Feb-2014 09:18
Dominique Gisin of Switzerland and Tina Maze of Slovenia jointly won the Ladies Downhill at Sochi this morning, both recording times of 1:41.6. No silver medal will be awarded with another Swiss racer, Lara Gut, taking bronze. A tie for first place is unusual but not unprecedented, being last recorded in the 1992 Albertville Games for the women, and 1998 Nagano Olympics for the men. Chemmy Alcott finishing 19th, 1.86 seconds off the pace.
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Chemmy Uses Combined For Training
Published : 10-Feb-2014 05:08
In a bold but practical move Britain's number one Alpine racer Chemmy Alcott used downhill section the Ladies Super Combined as a training run in Sochi this morning.
Chemmy finished 16th in the race in a time of 1.44.83, qualifying for the Super Combined Slalom but posting as DNS for 'Did not start' in the overall results, preferring to concentrate on Wednesday's Downhill.
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British Snowsports History - First Olympic Medal
Published : 09-Feb-2014 10:34
British wintersports history has been made with Jenny Jones taking the bronze medal in the new event of snowboard slopestyle.
Jenny qualified 3rd in the semi finals earlier this morning, progressing her through to finals.
During finals, Jenny scored an outstanding 87.25 in her second run, but due to starting second, Jenny and the crowd were left with an agonising wait for the final 10 riders for her place in history to be secured. Jenny, the Queen of British snowboarding has won the first Snowboard Olympic medal for Great Britain, and has become the first ever British female to win an Olympic medal on snow.
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Brits do well in Slopestyle Final
Published : 08-Feb-2014 04:44
Men's Slopestyle Finals in Sochi
American Sage Kotsenburg took the first gold of the Games ahead of Norway's Staale Sandbech and Canada's Mark McMorris.
Jamie 6th, Billy 10th
Nicholls was in silver medal position after landing a triple on his first run to score 85.50 but he made an error on his second run and fell to sixth.
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Successful Training Run for Chemmy in Sochi
Published : 07-Feb-2014 04:47
Chemmy Alcott, who is competing at her fourth Olympic Games, took part in women's downhill training at Rosa Khutor today.
Unlike most of the other competitors, this was Chemmy's first time on the course, having been out of action through injury during races there a year ago.
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J2Ski Snow Report - February 6th 2014
Published : 06-Feb-2014 05:42
Week Ending February 7th, 2014
Snow Report Summary
Big snows were again reported this week - particularly from The Dolomites - and more snow is in the forecast... for just about everywhere! What else can we say? Get in...
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Brits Were First to Compete at Sochi
Published : 06-Feb-2014 02:08
Four British boarders from Team GB have been in competition in Sochi this morning as the 2014 Winter Olympics have got underway the day before the opening ceremony.
The four, two men, and two women, were competing in qualification events for the new Olympic discipline of Snowboard Slopestyle. In the process one of the make competitors, Billy Morgan, became the first person to compete at Sochi as well as in Olympic Snowboard Slopestyle, while in the women's competition a few hours later, Jenny Jones did the same thing and became the first woman to compete at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
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Shaun White to skip Slopestyle - citing risk
Published : 05-Feb-2014 04:13
Definitely in the "we didn't see that coming" section!
Following injuries to several athletes on the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park slopestyle course, top snowboarder Shaun White has announced he will not compete in slopestyle.
Photo : Reuters via the BBC
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Sochi 2014 schedule for British skiers and snowboarders
Published : 05-Feb-2014 09:12
For Team GB's snowboarders, action kicks off in Sochi tomorrow, a day ahead of the Opening Ceremony, with the qualifiers of the Men's and Women's Snowboard Slopestyle. Action then continues through to the 23rd February for the British skiers and snowboarders, with the final event being the Men's Cross Country Mass Start Free.
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Skier Aims For World Records By Skiing 20 Countries In Month
Published : 04-Feb-2014 09:04
British skier Jamie Stevenson, who works for tour operator Ski Independence's Reservations Team, will attempt to break a Guinness World Record and raise money for Disability Snowsport UK next month.
Jamie is aiming to ski 20 different countries in only a month, travelling only by car and entirely on his own, covering a distance of over 6,500 miles throughout March, starting at Aviemore in Scotland and ending in Norway.
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Big Snow in West US
Published : 02-Feb-2014 10:59
Ski areas in Colorado have been claiming 'the storm of the century' this weekend with up to 90cm (three feet) of powder descending in 48 hours.
Aspen Snowmass has done particularly well out of the abundance of powder, which they report is lying 'poles deep' on the piste, leading to superb conditions once terrain is made avalanche safe.
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Too Much Snow in Austria
Published : 01-Feb-2014 03:48
(A chairlift is nearly buried at Bad Kleinkirchheim this afternoon - a week ago there was limited snow cover at the resort)
What a difference a week makes. Less than seven days after there were doubts that the Hahnenkamm might be staged with too little snow and too warm temperatures following near drought conditions for two months, there have been huge snowfalls in Austria over the past 48 hours.
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