Ski Resort and Snow News - May 2012
Good News From The Jungfrau
Published : 31-May-2012 08:29
There are two pieces of good news for skiers from the famous and spectacularly-scenic Swiss Jungfrau region next winter.
Firstly, the area above Interlaken, home to the resorts of Grindelwald, Wengen, Lauterbrunnen and Murren, has announced it will be holding prices at last season's levels.
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Southern Hemisphere 2012 Ski Season About to Kick Off
Published : 29-May-2012 09:04
The 2011-12 ski season in the northern hemisphere has finally ended – or at least the number of resorts still open is about as low as it gets before centres start re-opening for summer glacier skiing.
Only Timberline, Oregon; Crystal Mountain in Washington State and the Blackcomb Glacier are open in North America after Mammoth called it a day at the weekend. In Europe less than a dozen areas are operational in Europe with none in France, just Zermatt in Switzerland and a handful in Austria, Italy and Norway plus Riksgransen in Sweden and Ruka in Finland – our own dear Cairngorm also ended its ski season at the weekend as temperatures ion Aviemore suddenly soared to a near May record 27C.
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Cervinia Announces Summer Ski Dates
Published : 28-May-2012 10:35
Italy's Cervinia ski resort, in the north west of the country, has announced it will open for glacier skiing for 10 weeks from 30th June to 9th September this year.
Summer skiers and boarders will be able to ski on the glacier of Plateau Rosà with access using the resort's newly opened cable car, and also enjoy the unique panorama from the viewing platform at the arrival station of the Plateau Rosà cable car and take a visit to the highest museum in Europe, dubbed "A Mountain of Work."
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Ski Club of GB Announces Annual Mountain Clean Up
Published : 23-May-2012 01:28
The Ski Club of Great Britain has announced details of its annual mountain clean up at three of the UK's five commercial ski fields.
Summer mountain clean ups have long been regular occurrences at ski areas around the world, but the Ski Club first launched their annual Big Spring Clean as part of their 'Respect The Mountain' environmental awareness campaign five or six years ago, initially at Cairngorm and Nevis Range.
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Cable Water Skiing On Snow ?
Published : 19-May-2012 07:41
It's at this time of year the news of new hotels, lifts, pistes and everything else in ski resorts for next winter starts to appear.
Usually it's an old drag lift becoming a new chairlift, more snow making or a new luxury hotel but every now and then something new comes along.
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Camping In California
Published : 14-May-2012 12:33
Most of the world's ski areas have now closed up shop, but Mammoth Mountain in California is famous for staying open to late spring and at least once as late as August.
This year may be an exception as after the poor snowfall weather up to March in the western USA (excepting the most northerly states) most ski areas have now closed but Mammoth says it will stay open to late May at least.
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Cairngorm One of Less Than 30 Resorts Still Open For 'Winter' 11-12
Published : 10-May-2012 10:52
Cairngorm ski area above Aviemore in Scotland is one of less than 30 ski areas still open for winter 2011-12 and is possibly reporting the best visitor number levels of any of them as pent up demand for Scottish skiing continues to bring thousands of skiers to Scottish slopes each weekend.
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French Ski Season Ends, New Ticket Options Next Winter
Published : 09-May-2012 08:49
The 2011-12 ski season ended bin France yesterday when the last two resorts still operating, Tignes and Val Thorens, called it a day on the season.
Unlike the other 'big 4' Alpine nations, France no longer has glacier skiing year round, and it will be six weeks until Tignes, Les 2 Alpes and Val d'Isere re-open for summer skiing.
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Another Six Seat Chair For Saalbach
Published : 07-May-2012 10:49
Saalbach Hinterglemm in Austria has announced that it is upgrading another drag lift straight to a six-passenger chairlift for the coming winter 2012-13.
Saalbach will now operate 10 six-seater chairlifts along with one eight seater and 15 gondolas – most of them eight seaters giving it an uplift capacity of just shy of 100,000 people per hour and putting it in the world top three in terms of the number of high capacity chairlifts and of gondolas it operates.
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