Ski Resort and Snow News - October 2019
Lidl’s 19-20 Ski Range Goes on Sale Sunday 10th November
Published : 31-Oct-2019 11:58
Lidl's range of low price ski gear will be piled high in their UK stores on Sunday, 10th November, but probably won't be there long.
The store has advised J2Ski that the full range of nearly 30 items for men and women, adults and children, will range in price from £1.99 for hand warmers to a high of £19.99 for adult ski jackets.
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J2Ski Snow Report - October 31st 2019
Published : 31-Oct-2019 08:40
J2Ski Snow Report 31st October 2019
Prepping for the weekend, picture courtesy of Winter Park...
The cold arrives, with new snow in The Alps and more in Colorado.
The Snow Headlines - 31st October
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Three Ski Areas Opening Early, this Weekend, In Colorado
Published : 30-Oct-2019 07:20
At least three more ski areas (the number is growing by the day) will open early for the 2019-20 season this weekend, taking the total available in the state to at least six.
Monarch is the latest ski area to announce it will open, three weeks earlier than its scheduled date, saying that it has a 50cm (20 inch) settled base. It joins last year's first-in-North America-to-open Wolf Creek and Eldora in opening this weekend.
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Banff Ski Areas to Start Opening From Friday
Published : 29-Oct-2019 03:58
Banff's local ski hill, Mt Norquay, has confirmed that it will open for the season this Friday, November 1st.
The resort will be running it's Cascade chairlift to allow skiers and riders to carve their first turns of 'winter' 2019-20.
Banff's other two ski areas, Sunshine and Lake Louise, have both confirmed they'll be opening a week later, on Saturday the 8th.
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A New 5-Star, ski-in, ski-out Hotel in Méribel - Le Coucou
Published : 28-Oct-2019 08:18
This PR provided to us by Le CouCou, who are kindly sponsoring our Snow Mails this winter... AND offering a VIP Welcome if you mention J2Ski when booking...
5- star luxury and a casual atmospherePerched on the heights of Belvédère, close to Le Rond-Point des Pistes, Le Coucou is in one of the loveliest sites in Méribel, next to the slopes. The hotel rubs shoulders with the snow-capped summits and overlooks the entire valley.
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2019-20 Ski Season Gets Started in Japan as Country’s Ski Island ‘Moves Closer’ to UK
Published : 27-Oct-2019 10:48
Japan has become the latest ski nation to start it's 2019-20 season (and indeed the first we've heard of in Asia at J2Ski) with Fujiyama Snow Resort Yeti, located in the country's Shizuoka Prefecture, opening on Friday.
It's the 21st straight year that the resort has opened first in the country, although this year a little later than 2018, when the opening was the weekend before, on the 20th.
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J2Ski Snow Report - October 24th 2019
Published : 24-Oct-2019 06:48
J2Ski Snow Report 24th October 2019
A snow cannon at work in Cervinia, Italy, opening this weekend...
Another few ski areas open as cold returns to the forecast...
The Snow Headlines - 24th October
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Les 2 Alpes Cancels October Ski Opening
Published : 23-Oct-2019 10:12
Les 2 Alpes has quietly dropped plans to open its glacier for snowsports over the next two weekends and the week in between.
The ski resort in the southern French Alps has traditionally opened for nine days as a pre-season opener with ski tests and events for over 20 years, but in recent years has repeatedly cancelled the event due to inadequate snow cover on the glacier.
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Fresh Powder For Already-Open-in-October Scandinavian Ski Areas
Published : 20-Oct-2019 11:42
There's been heavy snowfall this weekend in northern Scandinavia where four resorts are already open across Finland, Norway and Sweden.
Three of the four areas have used snow farming techniques to be able to open – saving snow 'farmed' last spring – piling it in to huge covered mounds that survive through summer to be spread back out on the slopes when it gets cooler in the Autumn.
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Fresh Snow as Southern Hemisphere's 2019 Season (Almost) Ends
Published : 19-Oct-2019 07:27
Although the last ski areas still open for winter 2019 in the southern hemisphere closed a week ago in South America and Australia, two areas are still operating in New Zealand.[/b]
Cardrona on the South Island has a base of 25-110cm and is still almost fully open with 38 or 40km skiable and all lifts operating.
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Early Start For Winter 19-20 in Canada ...Next Week!
Published : 18-Oct-2019 01:21
Canada's ski season looks set to get underway a week on Saturday as Nakiska in Alberta, the closest ski area to Calgary just 45 minutes away, has announced its earliest ever opening.
"We are very thankful to be able to open up this early. Shout out to our team who have been working around the clock to get runs open so our very passionate skiers and riders can share the tradition of celebrating ski season starts with first turns at Nakiska," said "Powder Matt" Mosteller, Senior VP, Marketing & Resort Experience for Nakiska.
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Kitzbuhel Prepares for 2019-20 Season Launch
Published : 17-Oct-2019 07:09
Kitzbuhel will open for its 2019-20 ski season this Saturday, the first ski area in the Alps without a glacier to provide a permanent base, to do so.
The Tirolean ski area has one of the lopwerst altitude ski areas in the Alps, but in recent seasons has extended its snow cover for 200 days or more, opening in mid-October and staying open to early May.
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J2Ski Snow Report - October 17th 2019
Published : 17-Oct-2019 07:52
J2Ski Snow Report 17th October 2019
The view from Kitzsteinhorn this morning...
A little more snow, and a few more ski areas opening...
The Snow Headlines - 17th October
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Two New Red Runs for Méribel
Published : 16-Oct-2019 07:10
A number of new ski runs will open in the 3 Valleys in France, already the world's biggest ski area with 600km of piste.
Two of the new trails will be intermediate grade red pistes in Méribel's Roc de Fer area.
The first, La "Gypaète" will be accessible via the Cherferie chairlift. This run will stay "as natural as possible" the resort's management say with plenty of moguls and banked turns ending in a small series of tight bends before joining the Roc de Fer blue run.
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Tignes To Open this Weekend as Heavy Snowfall Forecast for the Alps
Published : 15-Oct-2019 09:06
[b]Tignes will open for skiing and boarding this coming Saturday 19th October according to a press released published on the French version of its site.
The Grande Motte glacier had been due to open at the end of September but for the second year the resort delayed that, blaming a lack of snow cover, for which it blames climate change.
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More Flight Routes to Grenoble
Published : 14-Oct-2019 11:19
Thomas Cook Airline services may have gone but this winter sees three new ski routes introduced from the UK to Grenoble airport, which is officially now known as 'Grenoble Alpes Isère airport'.
It is usually the best airport for accessing ski areas in the southern French Alps including Alpe d'Huez and Les Deux Alpes as well as smaller resorts like Villard de Lans, Corrençon, Chamrousse and les 7 Laux.
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Yet More New High Speed Lifts at Ischgl
Published : 13-Oct-2019 08:51
Ischgl in the Austrian Tirol launches its five month ski season at the end of November with another multi-million euro investments that will see it unveil more high-tech ski lifts – something it does almost every season.
This summer it has splurged €24m on two new chairlifts, Velilleck and Visnitz, which replace lifts of the same name.
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Arapahoe Basin Sneaks in Early to be First in US to Open For Winter 19-20
Published : 12-Oct-2019 09:01
Arapahoe Basin ski area took advantage of recent snowstorms in Colorado following a week or so of snowmaking in order to claim the 'first to open in the US' title.[/b]
After Keystone resort announced yesterday, Friday 11th, that they planned to open for the season today (October 12th), Arapahoe Basin announced they'd open late Friday afternoon. In an unusual move opening at 3.30pm for a few hours, usually the end of the ski day in North America.
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Second Ski Area Opens For 19-20 Season Using Snowfarming
Published : 11-Oct-2019 10:27
Finland's largest ski area, Levi, has opened for its nearly eight month 2019-20 season this morning by using snow stored from spring and then spread back out on the slopes this week as temperatures cool.
The snow has been laid as a ribbon down Levi's wide main slope, and temperatures dropped below freezing with a heavy frost, so it won't be thawing at all today.
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Early October Blizzard Hits Colorado
Published : 11-Oct-2019 07:14
The forecast heavy snowfall has moved in to Colorado heightening speculation that a ski area there will be the first in North America to open for winter 2019-20 – possibly in the next 24 hours.
"We are going to open soon," announced Arapahoe Basin's boss, Alan Henceroth, speaking as night fell in Colorado a few hours ago, and adding, "I am not exactly sure when, but we are going to open very soon. The snowmaking crew is raging, totally capitalizing on this tremendous weather event. Can't wait to see the place in tomorrow's morning light."
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At Least Three More Ski Areas Opening For Season This Weekend
Published : 10-Oct-2019 08:39
At least three more ski resorts in Europe will open for the 2019-20 season this weekend taking the total operating already to 16.
First to open will be Finland's largest resort, Levi, which will open its Front slope for skiers at 10pm on Friday with access via the North-chair. It joins fellow Finnish area Ruka, which opened a week ago, and the Norwegian summer ski area Galdhopiggen which is open through October.
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J2Ski Snow Report - October 10th 2019
Published : 10-Oct-2019 08:17
J2Ski Snow Report 10th October 2019
Preparing the slopes at Engelberg, opening this weekend...
Welcome to our first weekly Snow Report of the 2019/2020 ski season - yay!
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US Ski Areas May Open For 19/20 Season This Weekend
Published : 09-Oct-2019 07:27
There's speculation (although as yet no official announcements) that ski areas in Colorado, and possibly elsewhere in the US, may open as soon as this Friday as a major cold front is forecast to bring heavy snow to the western side of the country, with Colorado and Utah looking like they'll see 30cm/a foot accumulations.
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Les 2 Alpes Readies for October Glacier Opening, But Will There be Snowsports?
Published : 08-Oct-2019 04:01
Although Tignes has, as yet, been unable to open as planned for the start of its 2019-20 ski season whilst it waits better snow cover (it had hoped to on September 28th), Les 2 Alpes is in the midst of prepping for its annual end-of-October/start-of-November week of festivities when it traditionally offers new season ski and board testing, competitions, fun events and a general festival feel ahead of the main ski season.
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Skier Completes 120 Straight Months Skiing Scotland's Mountains
Published : 05-Oct-2019 09:01
A former Geography teacher from Inverness has - despite climate change- managed to ski for 120 consecutive months on Scottish snow. Her record breaking achievement has seen her hike many miles with her skis in summer and autumn to ski tiny remaining snow patches in the Cairngorms and Nevis area.
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Discover Backcountry Snowsports Indoors This Weekend
Published : 04-Oct-2019 08:31
It seems a little like the antithesis of what you would expect if you wanted to experience the freedom of the great outdoors by skiing and boarding in the back country, but this weekend the Tamworth Snowdome indoor snow centre is staging a Discover Backcountry day.
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Snowmaking For Start of 19-20 Season Underway in USA
Published : 04-Oct-2019 08:55
The battle to be the first ski area to open for the 2019-20 ski season in the USA has got underway in Colorado with snowmaking starting at Keystone and Loveland ski areas.
"Snowmakers fired up the snowguns on Catwalk and Mambo last night. The forecast looks good and we will keep laying down the flakes as long as conditions permit. Get ready, we will be skiing soon!" a Loveland statement reads.
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First October Snowfall in the Alps
Published : 02-Oct-2019 09:36
It's snowing again in the Alps with ski resorts across the mountain range posting images of higher slopes that appear to have received between 5 and 20cm of snow overnight.[/b]
About a dozen glacier ski areas are currently open so will have fresh snow for skiers to enjoy once conditions clear. Most are gradually increasing the terrain they have open and the length of the skiing day with year-round Hintertux (pictured above this morning)m recently switching from a 1pm summer ski closing time to its 4pm autumn-spring closing.
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J2Ski's Where to Ski in October 2019
Published : 01-Oct-2019 07:56
J2Ski Snow Report 1st October 2019
First snows for Big White, BC, Canada, this week...
This is the last of this summer's monthly snow reports... which can only mean one thing; winter's coming!
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