Ski Resort and Snow News - October 2017
Zermatt Expands Initiative for Children
Published : 31-Oct-2017 03:29
Despite holding its 6 day adult lift pass price at the same rate for several years now, Zermatt does have the most expensive lift ticket in Europe, not helped from a British perspective by the seemingly perennially strong Swiss Franc (although rates have got a bit better recently).
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Davos and Laax Opening This Weekend
Published : 31-Oct-2017 01:40
Davos has announced it will open some runs on its Parsenn ski area this weekend, 4th/5th November.
It will be the sixth Swiss areas to open already for winter 17-18, joining Engelberg, Glacier 3000 near Gstaad, The Diavolezza Glacier near St Moritz and Saas Fee and Zermatt.
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Kitzbuhel Opens Hahnenkamm for The Season
Published : 30-Oct-2017 08:04
Kitzbuhel – which opened the first non-glacier ski area in the the Alps for the 17-18 ski season in the Resterkogel sector in mid-October – has opened a second part of its ski area, its famous Hahnenkamm area, for new season snowsports too.[/b]
The famous Tirolean ski area had stockpiled snow from last winter and spread it on its slopes making runs about a kilometre long and attracting around 1500 skiers for the increasingly popular opening weekend. This was the third year and the earliest opening yet for the resort.
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First New Indoor Snow Centre in Europe For 8 Years Opens Today
Published : 27-Oct-2017 08:31
The first new indoor snow centre in Europe since The Snow Centre opened at Hemel Hempstead north of London eight years ago has opened today near Antwerp in Belgium.[/b]
And like The Snow Centre, Belgium's 'Skipiste Aspen' was originally a popular club dry skislope for many decades before the decision to upgrade to an indoor snow centre.
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Two New Gondolas For Innsbruck Ski Areas
Published : 27-Oct-2017 07:31
Two of Innsbruck's nine ski areas have announced they'll have new state-of-the-art gondolas for the coming winter.
One of the mountains most popular with local 'Innsbruckers', Patscherkofel, will unveil a swish new lift with 10 person gondola cabins.
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Californian Ski Area To Open Early for 17-18 Season, Today
Published : 27-Oct-2017 09:58
Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe in California says it will open early for the 2017-18 ski season – this weekend.
Locals had noticed the resort had started snowmaking creating a ribbon of white on the autumnal landscape a few weeks ago but it was not clear that there were any opening plans, until an announcement yesterday.
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2017-18 World Cup Alpine Ski Season Starting in Austria
Published : 27-Oct-2017 08:29
The 2017-18 Alpine ski season gets underway at Sölden in Austria this weekend with the first Giant Slalom races of the campaign.
This winter being an Olympic season, with the torch relay towards PyeongChang in South Korea also getting underway in Greece this week, the tension has been ratchetted up an extra notch.
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J2Ski Snow Report - October 26th 2017
Published : 26-Oct-2017 11:24
J2Ski Snow Report 26th October 2017
Sunrise over a snowy Hintertux this morning...
Autumn snows, a mild few days and a plunge to cold on the cards... and that's just Europe! And an awesome competition...
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Up to 50cm of Snowfall Expected In The Alps
Published : 21-Oct-2017 07:26
Snowfall forecasting models are predicting up to 50cm of snow to fall on high slopes in the Alps over the coming 48 hours. The snowfall is expected to reach lower elevations in smaller volumes.
Already-open glacier ski areas could see powder conditions for the start of next week.
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J2Ski Snow Report - October 19th 2017
Published : 19-Oct-2017 07:29
J2Ski Snow Report 19th October 2017
Snow at altitude for many places on Sunday, deepest in the East! See Snow Forecast for Austria
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One Week To Go For Southern Hemisphere’s 2017 Season
Published : 15-Oct-2017 12:05
Mt Hutt has ended an extended 2017 ski season today with a 335cm base (11 foot) base - currently the world's deepest.
The New Zealand ski centre ended winter 2017 in style with a Hawaii-themed day and issued this statement.
"That's it thats all! We hope everyone who came up today had a great last day with us we sure had a lot of fun and there were a lot of great Hawaiian vibes going on. Thanks to all of you who came up and made the most of this epic winter with us, and of course a big thanks to all the staff at Mt Hutt who made it all possible! We'll see you all again next year."
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Kitzbuhel First Non-Glacier Ski Resort in Alps To Open for 17-18 Season
Published : 14-Oct-2017 09:10
Kitzbühel in the Austrian Tirol is again the first ski resort without a glacier in the Alps to open for winter 2017-18.
Like several other resorts it uses the technique of storing a huge pile of snow from last season through the summer in a protected area before spreading it on the slopes to create a ski run. In Kitzbühel's case a run that's 2km long.
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Scottish Ski Area To Test Run all Weather Snowmaking System
Published : 12-Oct-2017 11:29
Cairngorm ski area above Aviemore is to test run an all-weather snowmaking system this autumn.
The Sottish ski centre has reached an agreement with TechnoAlpin to try out one of their Snowfactory units.
All-weather snowmaking machines make their snow within a large refrigerated articulated unit and then spread it on the slopes ready-made. It still thaws like normal snow when temperatures are above freezing but for many of the centres that already use them temperatures often hover around freezing so thawing Is slow, but the weather is not consistently cold enough for snowmaking and natural snowfall is too unreliable.
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‘The Hoff’ Set To Appear at London Ski Show
Published : 11-Oct-2017 08:14
The London Ski & Snowboard Show which kicks off in a fortnight's time this year often brings a celebrity appearance or two.
Usually it's a current star of the British Ski or Snowboarding Team or one of our national treasures such as Graham Bell or Eddie The Eagle, but this year the ski rental service Alpinresorts.com have announced they'll be bringing their 'ambassador' and global superstar to the Show's opening day, David 'The Hoff' Hasselhoff …or David 'Hero Hoff Snow' Hasselhoff as they prefer he be addressed.
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Engelberg Opens Today (October 11th)
Published : 11-Oct-2017 08:43
Engelberg ski area in Switzerland has announced it will open for the ski season today, October 11th, 2017.[/b]
The Swiss area is the third to open in country, joining Saas Fee and Zermatt. Two more, Glacier 3000 above Gstaad and Les Diablerets and Laax, expect to open later this month.
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North America’s 2017-18 Ski Season Starts Friday
Published : 11-Oct-2017 07:59
The ski season in North America is set to start on Friday 13th October after Arapahoe Basin announced it plans to open in 48 hours.
The Colorado ski area, which has been the first, or joint-first, to open on the continent for many years, and has the longest ski season in the world of any resort without a glacier, is one of several to have been snowmaking since late September.
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Quad chairlifts, Dry slopes, New Clubhouses and All-Weather Snowmaking For Scottish Slopes
Published : 09-Oct-2017 02:05
Scottish ski areas appear to be coming out fighting after one of the worst ski seasons there for decades last winter, as the snow more-or-less failed to arrive all season.
Two ski areas —Cairngorm and Glencoe – have shown an interest in acquiring Snow Factory all-weather snowmaking systems. Glencoe seems to be the more active in terms of actually getting hold of one, launching a crowd-funding campaign with a £200,000 target towards the cost. So far it has reached £40,000. Glencoe say being able to make snow in plus temperatures would be a game changer for Scottish skiing.
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20cm of Snow in Austria, 20cm of Snow in New Zealand
Published : 08-Oct-2017 10:48
Snow has been falling on both sides of the equator with the fifth 20cm+ snowfall since the start of August on glaciers in the Alps, and the latest big snowfall in New Zealand.
Snow in early autumn is fairly normal in the Alps, and not wholly unusual in New Zealand as the country approaches 'mid-Spring' but it is quite rare for posted snowfall tallies to be the same amount on the same day.
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Snow Falling Again in the Alps
Published : 06-Oct-2017 03:20
A fresh snow storm is hitting the Alps this weekend and the first images of snowy slopes are appearing on social media and webcam images less than 24 hours after the same resorts were delighting in the 'Indian Summer.'
Lech is pictured above at 3pm this afternoon (6 October 17).
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Ruka Unwraps Snow and Opens for Ski Season Tomorrow
Published : 05-Oct-2017 04:20
The Finnish ski resort of Ruka up in Lapland will open for its 2017-18 ski season at 9.30am tomorrow.
Ruka has one of the longest ski-seasons of any resort without a glacier (and many with glaciers) open from early October to early May - for eight months a year.
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Graham Bell Sets Ski Speed Record For Being Towed Behind a Car
Published : 04-Oct-2017 01:56
Former British Olympic Skier Graham Bell achieved a new Guinness World Record title for the 'fastest towed speed on skis', pulled by the new Jaguar XF Sportbrake, at Jaguar Land Rover's Arctic Revi Test Centre in Arjeplog, Sweden.
Car and skier broke the previous world record of 70mph by more than half as much again, with an average speed of 117mph, 47mph faster than the old record.
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Five Events to catch in Les Arcs this winter
Published : 04-Oct-2017 08:21
Like many resorts Les Arcs is creating more events to keep guests entertained this winter. Here are five of the best you can look forward to in the Paradiski resort during the 2017/18 season:
Les Arcs European Film Festival - 16-23 December 2017
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Skiers Check Their Rights After Monarch Collapse
Published : 03-Oct-2017 11:27
Nearly 2,000 people have so far lost their jobs and some 750,000 people who had flights booked with Monarch won't be taking them after the UK's 5th largest airline collapsed yesterday.
How many of the 750,000 tickets were for ski flights remains unknown, but Monarch had been trying to grow its ski flight business in recent years and operated services used by skiers to Geneva, Grenoble, Barcelona and Finnish Lapland amongst others from airports across England.
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Will Colorado Ski Areas Open Early as Big Snow Storm Hits?
Published : 02-Oct-2017 09:19
Ski centres in Colorado may get as much as 60cm (2 feet) of fresh snow from a major storm that is currently in the US ski state an expected to continue dumping snow until Tuesday.
Ski areas have been posting overnight pictures showing of snow gauges showing more than 30cm/12 inches of snow already. Steamboat is pictured above.
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J2Ski’s Where To Ski or Snowboard In October 2017
Published : 01-Oct-2017 03:42
J2Ski's Where To Ski or Snowboard In October 2017
The Matterhorn's waiting for winter too...
Top 100 Snowiest Ski Areas Worldwide
This Week's Snow Headlines
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