Ski Resort and Snow News - December 2009
Speed Flying Takes Off In Les Arcs
Published : 24-Dec-2009 02:55
The Columbia Speed Flying Pro les Arcs 2010 contest will take place from the 25th - 29th January in Les Arcs.
For those not in the know, speed flying involves descending a ski slope with a small parascending sail attached to your back. It attracts skydivers, base jumpers, paragliders and professionals skiers, who's sports all combine in speed flying. The event will judge the best world level of the speed flying across these four disciplines.
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First Ski Lift to Cross Old Iron Curtain Opens
Published : 24-Dec-2009 02:24
Several of Slovenia's ski resorts have undergone developments for the 2009/2010 season, offering skiers and snowboarders new facilities and greater access to the country's slopes.
The new ski piste linking Slovenia's Kanin ski resort with the Italian resort of Sella Nevea had its official opening on December 23rd 2009, creating the first international ski area in the region and the first lift to cross the old iron curtain.
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Val d'Isère Latest Resort To Launch iPhone App
Published : 24-Dec-2009 12:50
Val d'Isère is the latest ski resort to launch its own iPhone application, which provides useful information to iPhone owners across the Espace Killy, both in Val d'Isère and Tignes.
This application uses a patent pending technology to show your position on the traditional ski map allowing you to share this information with your "more traditional" friends using a paper map. Simply tapping on your location supplies the name of the slope you are on. You can even guide them to where you are. Of course you can zoom and pan the map as required.
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New Cable Car Opens At Garmisch
Published : 24-Dec-2009 08:54
Munich's hopes of hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in 2018 have been lifted with the opening of a new 1.5 kilometre cable car service, capable of carrying up to 2,000 passengers per hour to the pistes of Garmisch-Partenkirchen – a key location for the Munich 2018 alpine events.
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New at Schladming for 2009
Published : 23-Dec-2009 05:08
Schladming Spends €6m On Snowmaking and A Quad Chairlift
The Hauser Kaibling ski area above Scladming in Austria has invested around 6 million Euros invested in further infrastructure improvements to its 37 kilometers of ski runs this season.
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Nevis Range Turns 20
Published : 19-Dec-2009 10:20
On Saturday 19 December 2009, Scotland's Nevis Range ski centre will celebrate its twentieth anniversary.
It re-opens for its winter season exactly twenty years after it first opened its doors on 19 December 1989. Originally operating as a ski resort, the business has grown and diversified since that day. Today it is a major player in the Scottish tourist industry and contributes significantly to the Outdoor Capital of the UK.
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New Six Seat chairlift for Isola 2000
Published : 19-Dec-2009 09:25
Isola 2000 in the southern French Alps is opening a new six-seat chairlift this winter, thanks to investment from the local Alpes-Maritimes Council.
The new lift, named "La Valette," is 1,905m long and rises 500 vertical metres.
The lift improves people management on the slopes, reducing bottle necks, and providing a more comfortable uplift.
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Ski Racers Meet FIS After Injuries Force More Out Of Olympics
Published : 19-Dec-2009 08:25
A run of serious injuries in recent World Cup races has knocked several leading skiers out of the coming Winter Olympics, including the current defending downhill world champion, ahead of a scheduled meeting this week between downhill racers and International Ski Federation (FIS) officials in Val Gardena, Italy.
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SkiSet extends Ski Hire to North America Ski Resorts
Published : 16-Dec-2009 02:15
Europe's Largest and Most Respected Ski and Snowboard Rental Company Expands to North America
VAIL, Colo. – Dec. 01, 2009 – Skiset has expanded to North America and plans to have over 70 stores at major ski resorts in the United States and Canada for the 2009/2010 winter ski season.
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Snow Leopard training in Val Di Fiemme
Published : 14-Dec-2009 10:09
The Snow Leopard moves his training to Val Di Fiemme, Italy to prepare for Vancouver Olympics 2010
Kwame Nkrumah Achaempong universally known as the Snow Leopard has switched his training from his indoor location at Hemel Hempstead's Snow Centre to Val Di Fiemme, in Trentino, Italy. The resort would win any 'picture postcard' setting as an idyllic winter sports setting with the UNESCO World Heritage Site listed mountains of the Dolomites as a beautiful backdrop and also of course great slopes. More than that it is centre of ski racing excellence and often hosts ski racing teams such as Canada, Italy and even Argentina.
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Schladming Installs Chondola
Published : 14-Dec-2009 09:20
Schladming has installed its first 'Telemix' or 'Chondola' lift which combines chairlifts with gondolas cabins on one cable.
The new Hochwurzen Sun-Jet lift has a gondola cabin after every three chairs. The new lift makes it easier for the uplift of all mountain visitors, not just skiers and boarders, as well as increasing uplift speed and capacity on the route.
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Skier caught in Utah Avalanche
Published : 14-Dec-2009 08:15
KSL report that an avalanche caught a group of skiers in Big Cottonwood Canyon.
A group of skiers accidentally triggered an avalanche near Cardiac Ridge Saturday.According to the Utah Avalanche Center, the group was breaking a trail in the area just after 7 p.m. As they approached the top of the ridge, they triggered the avalanche about 100 feet above them. The last skier got caught in the slide and ended up buried in more than two feet of snow.
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Verbier Ride Postponed (a year!)
Published : 10-Dec-2009 12:52
VERBIER RIDE 09 - Event Postponed until Winter 2010/11
The Verbier Ride 09 event has unfortunately been postponed until next winter due to unusual weather patterns over the past week in the alps. High temperatures earlier in the week brought heavy rain for most of Monday as high as 2500 metres. The rain fall has made it impossible to construct the kickers needed for the Slope Style event.
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New Chairlift and More Snowmaking For Châtel
Published : 07-Dec-2009 03:05
Châtel in the giant French-Swiss Portes dui Soleil ski region has replaced its Linga 2 chairlift ready for the new season, which began in the resort this weekend.
The old Linga 2 chairlift which takes skiers up to Col du Linga at 2050m has been replaced by a new six-searer detachable chairlift, ascending from 1550m, at a departure point next to the Leiche ski lift, and it's name will be Echo Alpin lift.
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New Chairlift for Cervinia
Published : 07-Dec-2009 01:10
Italy's Cervinia ski resort, which is connected by piste and lifts to Zermatt in Switzerland, has made a major investment of 11.5 million Euros in a state-of-the-art new chairlift.
The new Pancheron six-seat lift, which has all the latest safety features, departs from the top of Cretaz (close to the arrival station of the chairlift of the same name), and has an hourly uplift capacity of 3,000 people/hour.
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World’s Biggest Resorts Open For Winter 09-10
Published : 07-Dec-2009 10:03
Many of the world's leading ski resorts have opened for the 2009-10 ski season this weekend following heavy snowfall in the Alps, Dolomites, Pyrenees and lower temperatures in Eastern North America allowing for snowmaking.
In the French Alps, Courchevel and Meribel joined Val Thorens opening in the Three Valleys and in Austria the Arlberg opened a week later than planned after a spell of warm weather ended with falls of several feet of snow.
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Ski Environmentalist Walks To Copenhagen Carrying Skis
Published : 07-Dec-2009 07:26
Intrepid explorers, adventurers and rail enthusiasts are currently en-route to the UN Climate conference in Copenhagen using a variety of low carbon ways to reach their final destination.
World Champion extreme free-skier and founder of The Save Our Snow Foundation (www.sosfound.org), American Alison Gannett is walking 200 miles from Big Ben in London to Brusssels railway station with snow skis on her back, in the first stage of her trip to the conference.
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