Ski Resort and Snow News - August 2011
Summer Ski Season Ends
Published : 26-Aug-2011 03:04
Les 2 Alpes (doesn't look much like this at the moment...)
It's the last week of the summer ski season, for what it is, in the Alps. Only nine ski areas have been open through August – the lowest number ever and the first time northern hemisphere summer ski area numbers have been in single figures since summer skiing gained popularity 30 years ago. That total drops still further to 7 entering September.
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London Ski Show Returns to Earls Court In October
Published : 26-Aug-2011 03:00
The London Show
The Metro Ski and Snowboard Show (metrosnow.co.uk) returns to Earls Court in London this autumn for a five day event from Wednesday 19TH to Sunday 23rd October. Long gone is the era of the 10 day show in November, this year the event is sandwiched between the Scottish Ski Show in Glasgow at the SECC the previous weekend, and the British Ski Show at Birmingham's NEC the weekend after.
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30 Years of Snowboard Competition
Published : 21-Aug-2011 04:53
30 Years of Snowboard Competition
Remember when snowboarding was the cool new snow sport set to overtake skiing in terms of participant numbers by the mid 1990s?
That was before skiing re-invented itself with shaped skis that got skiers in to the terrain parks and running their own version of boarder cross races, the imaginatively titled – skier cross.
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Big Snow Festival Flies East To Serbia
Published : 20-Aug-2011 11:09
In a surprise move the Big Snow Festival (www.facebook.com/thebigsnowfestival) has abandoned its roots in Andorra where it was first staged two winters ago, and moved 1000 miles or so East to the other side of southern Europe and the top Serbian resort of Kopaonik.
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Andorra Access Faster Through New Airport
Published : 19-Aug-2011 02:29
The opening of a brand new airport located North West of Barcelona should make it quicker and easier for Brits to reach the Spanish Pyrenees and Andorra next winter.
The shiny new Lleida-Alguaire Airport, which is also connected to several of Spain's major cities by a high speed rail link, will begin taking charter flights – exclusively from tour operator Neilson - from December 19th.
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Bulgarian Government Acts to Make Illegal Resort Development Legal
Published : 17-Aug-2011 06:42
The rather murky world of Bulgarian ski resort development came in to some focus a few weeks ago when the World Wildlife Fund report that hundreds of people joined a protest in central Sofia to voice their concern over a planned amendment of legislation proposed by the Bulgarian government to cover up construction violations of Bansko Ski Zone over the past decade, built in the heart of Pirin National Park.
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New Luxury Hotel Offers Year Round Snowsports
Published : 15-Aug-2011 12:10
There are now only two glaciers where you can - in theory and weather permitting – ski every day of the year, the Hintertux glacier IN Austria and Zermatt in Switzertland.
The number of indoor ski slopes open year round has passed 50 in 25 countries and next month the number of these where you can spend an entirely indoor snow sports holiday grows to three with the opening of a four-star superior hotel at the Allrounder snow slope (also known as the Jever Skihalle) in Neuss close to Düsseldorf in Germany.
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Chamonix Promises ‘Futuristic Project’
Published : 14-Aug-2011 06:13
Chamonix has confirmed that there'll be no new lifts for 2011/12, but the tourist office say that,
"There's an exciting futuristic project for the summit of the Aiguille du Midi at 3842m!"
The precise details are yet to be revealed but it seems that the highest mountain restaurant in France, the Aiguille du Midi up at 3842m, from which thousands of skiers and boarders begin their descent of the world's longest off (or on) piste ski run, the Vallee Blanche, with the sometimes treacherous shuffle down 'The arete' is heading for a makeover.
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Squaw Valley’s Big Plans For 2011-12 (And Beyond)
Published : 08-Aug-2011 05:41
Squaw Valley
Squaw Valley by Lake Tahoe in California looks to be one of the resorts with the biggest changes planned for the coming winter. It has announced a $50 million capital investment plan spread over five years.
There will also be fundamental changes on the mountain, such as the ending of the resort's more or less unique resistance to naming names of ski runs, only the lifts and next winter there'll be named runs, complete with hi-tec electronic signage to them.
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