Ski Resort and Snow News - June 2011
Garmisch Concentrating on “Kandahar” World Championships Run For 2011-12.
Published : 30-Jun-2011 08:38
There's either an Alpine skiing world championships or a winter Olympics three years out of every four, so winter 11-12, when there isn't either, is the kind of rare one-year-in-four when no international competition takes place.
However Vancouver will still be talking about the 2010 games and Schladming, Sochi and Vail/Beaver Creek will be looking forward to their 2013, 2014 and 2015 events no doubt.
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Drive A Groomer Over Utah’s Powder
Published : 28-Jun-2011 11:40
In their efforts to diversify, quite a few leading ski resorts in the Alps and Rockies have hit upon the idea of allowing visiting ski tourist to ride along in the cab of a piste basher when they're grooming the slopes of an evening.
The idea of actually letting ski tourists drive a groomer is less common however, but Canyons resort near Park City in Utah have decided to offer just that as a unique après ski experience.
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Saas Fee Votes To Build One Of the World’s Highest Lifts
Published : 25-Jun-2011 07:39
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The population of the iconic Swiss resort of Saas Fee have voted in a local referendum this week to extend their lift and run network over the next few years to access some of the highest slopes in the Alps yet to be reached by ski lifts.
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Southern Hemisphere 2011 Season Start Marred By Delays
Published : 22-Jun-2011 07:59
Perisher
About a dozen well-known ski areas in Argentina, Chile and New Zealand have announced delayed openings for their winter 2011 due primarily to warm weather leading to inadequate natural snowfall and preventing snowmaking equipment from working at full throttle.
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More US Resorts Opening for Independence Day Skiing
Published : 16-Jun-2011 10:10
Mammoth's Season Began More than Seven Months Ago...
A record number of US ski areas are planning to open for snow sports on the American Independence Day holiday of July 4th.
Squaw Valley by Lake Tahoe in California is the latest resort to open it will re-open for skiing and riding from Saturday, July 2 – Monday, July 4 for the US Independence Day holiday weekend. It will run five major lifts including the Funitel and Gold Coast Express following record-breaking snowfall totals reaching nearly 800 inches.
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Treble Cone picked as best value Australasian Ski Area
Published : 16-Jun-2011 06:17
Treble Cone near Lake Wanaka has ranked first in a survey out today by Australian magazine, Your Money, to find the best value ski area throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Comparing 11 major resorts in Australia and New Zealand, including packages and prices for peak season dates in July and August, each resort was given a score based on key attributes consumers look for when planning a trip to the snow. These included the cost of travel and accommodation, equipment hire, lift passes and quality of snow and terrain.
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Solar Activity Showing Signs of Slowing
Published : 15-Jun-2011 04:31
The following Press Release was issued yesterday by scientists from the US National Solar Laboratory.
"If we are right, this could be the last solar maximum we'll see for a few decades," Hill said. "That would affect everything from space exploration to Earth's climate."
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Snow Report from Australia - 10th June 2011 - Great Video
Published : 13-Jun-2011 08:59
So this is what skiing in Australia really looks like :-
Courtesy of Snow Australia. :thumbup:
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Breckenridge Plans For Peak 6 Move Forward
Published : 11-Jun-2011 04:14
Long standing plans for Colorado's Breckenridge ski area to expand on to a fifth peak have moved forward with the US Forest Service which controls the land giving the preliminary go ahead for the plans. These would add 550 new acres of newly accessible terrain, about 75% of which would be accessed by a new six-seater chairlift, the remainder hike-to, and increase the ski area's capacity by 1,100 skiers a day.
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Southern Hemisphere 2011 Ski Season – Who’ll Open First?
Published : 08-Jun-2011 10:06
The southern hemisphere's 2011 ski season kind of started a month early, in mid-May, when 'historic' early snowfall and low temperatures allowed Australia's Perisher to open five weeks early, for one weekend only though.
Since then it has been all quiet. Tiffindell in South Africa was often the first to open, in late May each year, but since it went bankrupt last year that's off the annual calendar. However it's southern African neighbour Afriski is scheduled to open June 9th, which would make it first this year if it manages it – so far there's no word on conditions.
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June Skiing In Canada
Published : 02-Jun-2011 10:29
Mt Washington This Week
The heavy snowfall in Western North America last winter (well, even heavier than usual), means that more ski areas have decided to open for summer skiing there than ever before – three in fact.
Along with the usual option of glacier skiing on Whistler's Blackcomb, the snow slopes will open for a second year at weekends at Mount Washington in Vancouver Island (pictured) and also – new this year - at Grouse Mountain above Vancouver.
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Snow in Courchevel - 1st June 2011
Published : 01-Jun-2011 11:51
Courtesy of our friends at SkiSet, here's the view at La Croisette, Courchevel this morning...
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