Ski Resort and Snow News - July 2016
Two Giant Ski Passes Merge To Create The World’s Second Largest Ski Pass Area
Published : 29-Jul-2016 09:29
Two of the world's existing largest ski lift pass systems have merged for the 2016-17 ski season, but they say the 2,750km served by more than 900 lifts now available on one lift pss, valid for one day or more, s only the planet's second biggest. We're not sure what's bigger.
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Germany’s New Highest Cable Car To Set World Records
Published : 27-Jul-2016 08:55
A new cable car is under construction on to the Zugspitze, Germany's glaciated highest peak and highest ski area.
The lift will be built by Doppelmayr on behalf of the Bayerische Zugspitzbahn Bergbahn lift company over the next two summers and is scheduled to open in December 2017, replacing the previous lift which opened 54 years earlier in 1963. The overall project, including new terminal buildings, has a €50m budget.
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Big Snowfalls Across Southern Hemisphere
Published : 26-Jul-2016 12:43
Ski resorts in Australia, South America, New Zealand and even Southern Africa have all been reporting significant snowfall over the past 48 hours giving a clean sweep across the hemisphere's three skiing continents for fresh powder.
Australia has been having a largely consistently good winter since mid-June anyway but the snow has keep falling and based depths are now around the metre mark (Good for Australia) at most of the country's resorts.
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Crans Montana Opened For Skiing in July
Published : 23-Jul-2016 08:42
Crans Montana Ski & Golf in Switzerland has said it opened for glacier skiing on one weekend only earlier this month and published the pic above as proof, commenting, "Thanks to good snow conditions on the glacier at an altitude of 3,000 metres, the Crans-Montana ski lift company (CMA) enabled skiers to enjoy fantastic downhill fun under bright summer sun. It was possible to ski, play golf and enjoy the beach and the lake in the same day."
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Term-time Holiday Ruling Heading To Highest Court, Maybe
Published : 22-Jul-2016 11:33
A parent's victory against the council, and by default the government, over taking his child on holiday during school term time is set to be challenged by the council, with the backing of the government.
The Isle of Wight Council took Jon Platt to court over his refusal to pay a £120 fine for taking his daughter on a holiday in termtime, butt Mr Platt won primarily because he successfully argued that the law was vague about how many days a parent could take their child out of school, and that what figures were enshrined in law certainly didn't specify zero.
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Ski With Eddie the Eagle In Manchester This Weekend
Published : 21-Jul-2016 04:29
Former Olympian Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards will be doing a Q&A with fans at Manchester's indoor snow centre Chill Factore this Sunday, 24th July, before taking to the UK's longest real snow slope to ski with visitors.
The former Olympian – real name Michael Edwards - shot to fame in 1988 when he became the first person to represent Great Britain in Winter Olympic ski jumping for 60 years. More recently, Eddie's remarkable story hit the big screen in the eponymous film.
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Fresh Snow Falling on Four Continents
Published : 14-Jul-2016 09:58
There's been snow in northern and southern hemispheres over the past 48 hours including significant July snowfalls above 2500m in North America and in the Alps.
In the USA snow has been falling in the northwest of the country, with Jackson Hole posting pictures of sunflowers under snow there.
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Winter Returns to The Southern Hemisphere
Published : 11-Jul-2016 02:07
After a great start to the ski season in South America and New Zealand a month ago, things took a decidedly warm turn in mid-June leading to a similar scenario to last December in the Alps, if not worse.
Some ski areas that had opened were forced to close again as snow thawed away and temperatures were too warm for snowmaking; others that had not opened in the snowy start of June and stuck to their planned late June or early July regular opening days saw pre-season snow melt away and had to delay opening.
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Snowy Weekend At Last in Australia and New Zealand
Published : 03-Jul-2016 02:54
It seems that the 2016 ski season is finally getting its act together in Australia and New Zealand this weekend after a mixed June.
Australia's ski season officially started three weeks ago but only one run at one resort was open for opening day and its only in the last week that it has really turned wintery. Fortunately it has turned very wintery so the ski season is now full on.
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New Lifts For Chamonix
Published : 01-Jul-2016 07:44
Chamonix has announced a new high-speed detachable six-seater chairlift and an improved draglift connection are under construction in the resort's Brévent ski area and will be ready to operate next season.
The Leitner built chairlift will carry just under 3000 skiers per hour on the route, ascending just over a kilometres in just under four minutes.
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J2Ski's Where to Ski in July 2016
Published : 01-Jul-2016 07:21
Welcome to our global snow round-up for July; great conditions in Europe's summer ski areas but a mixed start to the Southern Hempisphere winter.
This Month's Snow Headlines
- Best summer ski conditions in years reported on Europe's glaciers, with a dozen ski areas open across five countries.
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