More Resorts Opening in the Alps After Fresh Snowfall
More Resorts Opening in the Alps After Fresh Snowfall
Published : 01-Nov-2023 03:28
More glacier ski areas in the Alps have announced they'll open in the next few days after heavy snowfall to start this week, particularly on high slopes above around 2,500m. Several have reported as much as 30cm of fresh snowfall, one 50cm.
It remains a mixed picture though with several other centres announcing they'' delay their opening because they still don't have enough snow, despite the latest falls, because of the largely warm and dry first half of autumn.
Among the resorts planning to open for the season this weekend are Switzerland's Glacier 3000 and Austria's Kitzsteinhorn above Kaprun. It means we'll be into double figures for the number of areas open in the Alps with six in Austria and four in Switzerland along with a couple in Italy. There remains nowhere open in France so far this autumn.
The already open Stubai and Hintertux glaciers (pictured above on Tuesday) have reported they've each had over 30cm (a foot) of fresh snowfall and that they're opening more terrain. Solden, meanwhile, has jumped from a 30cm to 1 metre base figure on its glacier, which hosted the opening Alpine World Cup race of the 23-24 season on Saturday.
But the news isn't all good. Verbier has announced they won't open this weekend but say they'll announce when they will early next week. Another Swiss resort that has already delayed opening several times, Engelberg, have set their opening date back to the 18th. Despite fresh snowfall both are still building adequate bases to be able to open.
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