Ski Resort and Snow News - October 2010
Seminars Offer Chance To Learn More About Backcountry Skiing And Boarding
Published : 30-Oct-2010 08:55
Ever improving equipment and the plethora of exciting ski movies can induce we mere mortals to feel we're capable of heading off piste and in to the back country without realising how important it is to be properly equipped and fully aware of what we're doing.
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La Plagne Announces 2010-11 Season Event Highlights
Published : 30-Oct-2010 08:49
La Plagne has announced a long calendar of events this winter, so if you're already booked to go there, these are the shows to look out for when you're in resort. If not already going there, you could see if any appeal and then book your trip to coincide.
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Snow Forecast Summary - 29th October 2010
Published : 29-Oct-2010 04:01
Following last weekends exciting new snows we've had a spell of clearer weather, with milder than normal temperatures, across most of the European Alps. That looks set to change again, particularly for the North and West of the Alpine region.
European Weather and Snow Next Week
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Banff, Cervinia, Kitzbuhel, Laax All Opening This Weekend
Published : 28-Oct-2010 11:40
Kitzbuhel
More than 30 ski areas will be open in the Alps this weekend, including several that have opened early as a result of up to three feet (90cm) of snow falling over the past week, according to reports from snow reporting agency www.skiinfo.co.uk.
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Vail Buys Sixth Resort
Published : 26-Oct-2010 10:54
Vail Resorts have acquired a sixth resort and their second in California – Northstar at Tahoe.
While other big North America resort owners like Intrawest, Booth Creek and the late American Skiing Company seem to snap up resorts quickly during boom years with their empires rising and falling over just a few years, Vail's approach is more measured, only buying top quality resorts every five years or so.
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Early Snow at Formigal
Published : 26-Oct-2010 10:37
Formigal has received the first snowfall of the Season.
It has snowed in the early morning in all the altitudes of the resort, even at the base, at 1.500 metres, and the snow is very abundant in higher valleys.
Early snowfall is always welcome, as it cools and moistens the ground.
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Heavy Snow Across The Northern Hemisphere's Ski Slopes Today
Published : 25-Oct-2010 09:54
Snow today in Whistler.
Resorts all over the northern hemisphere are reporting heavy snowfall at present.
The biggest accumulations have been in the Alps but resorts in North America, Scandinavia, Scotland and the Pyrenees have also been firing in snowfall alerts to J2Ski!
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Formigal Offers More Fun On And Off The Snow
Published : 25-Oct-2010 09:03
Sir Steve Redgrave checks out Formigal.
No word yet on whether Formigal will be offering as many free ski tickets to Brits this winter as last season (otherwise they have some of Europe's highest prices for a single European resort...) but however much it costs they are laying on more fun facilities on the slopes this winter.
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Learn To Board From Age Four at Whistler
Published : 24-Oct-2010 07:51
Whistler
Many people don't realise that while ski schools offer learn to si lessons from age three or four (sometimes as low as 18 months in private lessons!), snowboarding tuition isn't offered until age 7 or 8. This is partly due to the unavailability of equipment small enough, and partly because, the general wisdom is that children can't master boarding until that age due to their physical development.
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North American 2010-11 Ski Season Begins
Published : 23-Oct-2010 09:58
The East Coast of North America has beaten the rest and opened first for winter 2010-11. Sunday River in Maine began top to bottom snowmaking several weeks ago and opened briefly on Friday and then all day today, Saturday 23rd.
Loveland in Colorado has announced it will open tomorrow, Sunday October 24th, the first resort in Colorado to open to the general public (Copper Mountain opened on Thursday for race-training team camps). Arapahoe Basin also looks likely to open soon but Loveland is claiming first blood.
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The BRITS Are Back In Laax
Published : 22-Oct-2010 09:00
The Brits Music & Winter Festival (www.the-brits.com) has announced its line up for 2011 when it returns to Laax in Switzerland.
The event, which this season takes place from 20th – 27th March, is one of the biggest and longest running in the Alps, but it seems to have ever more challengers, or at least complimentary events including Snowbombing in Mayrhofen, Altitude in Meribel and other end-of-season fests in Ischgl, Chamonix and Arinsal among others.
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SkiSet unveil - The Personalized Ski Boot Liner
Published : 18-Oct-2010 08:57
Skiset, Europe's leading ski and snowboard rental chain, has today unveiled the Skiset ski boot liner that is set to revolutionise the world of ski boot rental. This innovative heat mouldable ski boot liner is available for purchase from Skiset rental locations around Europe and can be inserted into any rented ski boot shell offering a more comfortable and hygienic alternative to standard rental options. The Skiset ski boot liner also offers an economical alternative to buying a pair of ski boots costing from just €69 (RRP) and being reusable year after year.
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WIN a Helicopter Ride with Chemmy Alcott to the London Heli Ski Show
Published : 18-Oct-2010 11:12
THE LONDON TOTAL HELISKI SHOW - CHEMMY HELI COMPETITION
Arrive in Style with GB's No 1 Olympic Skier Chemmy Alcott in a Helicopter to the World's First Heliski Show!
To celebrate the launch of an exciting new concept in heli skiing, called The Total Heliski with Legends Program, Total Heliski, the experts behind the world's first heliski show, are offering a lucky show goer an incredible experience to remember. They will 'Arrive in Style' to The London Total Heliski Show by a champagne helicopter tour of London in the company of the glamorous 'Legend' Chemmy Alcott (Great Britain's No 1 Olympic skier, ranked 8th in the world).
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Luxury Lodging Swamps the Alps, Particularly Verbier
Published : 12-Oct-2010 09:04
Considering the dire straits that the country is supposed to be in, it seems a little odd just how many new luxury chalets are opening across the Alps this winter, including in top notch destination Verbier. Tour operators like Crystal Finest have announced expanded programmes too, and report that while the big picture is of declining business across the UK as a whole, their turnover was up last season.
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2010-11 Season Gathers Pace in Northern Hemisphere
Published : 12-Oct-2010 09:01
(Picture shows Copper Mountain, Colorado's snow guns today)
The 2010-11 ski season is starting to take off on both sides of the Atlantic. Copper Mountain in Colorado has joined Arapahoe Basin and Loveland in starting snowmaking. On the East Coast of North America, Sunday River in Maine is snowmaking too.
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A Remarkable New Lift Opens On Swiss Glacier
Published : 07-Oct-2010 10:59
The highly successful Austrian manufacturer of conveyor type lifts, SunKid, has completed the installation of one of its 'Wonder Carpet' lifts enclosed in a gallery enclosure at the Jungfraujoch above Wengen and Grindelwald, for more than a century Europe's highest railway station.
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Big Changes at Madonna Di Campiglio
Published : 06-Oct-2010 06:28
Italy's historic Madonna di Campiglio ski area is in the midst of a two year plan to dramatically expand its ski area.
The famous resort which has offered skiing for more than a century and has 120km of piste linked to neighbouring Marileva and Folgarida, will expand its terrain this winter, then exapand it further for 2011-12, creating a lift link to neighbouring Pinzolo, a connection planned for several decades.
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Santa Cristina Opens A Smart Hotel
Published : 03-Oct-2010 10:23
Santa Cristina, next to Selva in Italy's stunning Val Gardena area is opening a new 'Smart Hotel' this winter.
The idea is that you 'stay smart' with everything you need on your ski holiday easy to access, but much more affordable.
Opening on December 4, the new Saslong Smart Hotel has prices starting from 87 Euros in total for two people for three nights (so less than 14 Euros per person per day). The price is available up to December 23rd.
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New Quad For Superbagnères
Published : 01-Oct-2010 10:17
French ski area Superbagnères, above Luchon, has announced it will install a new quad chairlift, the Arbesquens lift, this winter, increasing capacity ad uplift speed on the route.
Superbagnères is a friendly and traditional ski resort nestled in the heart of the French Pyrenees close to the border with Spain but only 90 minutes from Toulouse.
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