Ski News from J2Ski - September 2013

Ski Resort and Snow News - September 2013

Ischgl Expands With New Lift To Access Freeride Terrain

Published : 29-Sep-2013 08:32

Ischgl have spent €18.5 million (approx. £15.6m) on an impressive new lift which will open up high altitude, high quality powder snow freeriding this winter, as well as provide access to a new red run.

The new cable car at the Tyrolean resort is 1.5 miles long and enables Ischgl's first terrain expansion in nearly 25 years.

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Colorado Ski Resorts Divided On Whether to Allow Retail Drug Sales This Season

Published : 28-Sep-2013 01:18

Colorado passed a law in November last year which allowed people aged over 21 to grow and own a small amount of cannabis each year, and to gift small amounts to friends too.

The law also allowed for cannabis to be sold, within these volume limits, through licensed retailers to member of the public, but crucially a decision on whether to license retailers to sell the drugs 'for recreational purposes' is being left up to individual Colorado towns to decide.

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Alcott and Bell Lead Olympic-themed Roadshow at Skiplex

Published : 27-Sep-2013 08:24

Skiplex in Reading is kick-starting the winter season with an Olympic themed road show on Sunday 6th October featuring two of Great Britain's most well-known skiers – three-time Olympian Chemmy Alcott and BBC Ski Sunday presenter Graham Bell.

Slide2Sochi Sunday is being run in conjunction with governing body Snowsport England as part of the new 'Go Ski Go Board' campaign and their 'Slide To Sochi Roadshow' to try to encourage more people in to snow sports. It's one of many events in the new initiative being staged at dry slopes, indoor snow slopes and on Skiplex's case on the 'endless' conveyor slope during October.

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Stubai and Rettenbach (Sölden) Glacier open TODAY

Published : 20-Sep-2013 10:46

Tirol kicks off winter 2013/2014!

Ski resorts across the Tirol region open in style over the next month with parties, concerts

and competitions to celebrate the start of 2013/14.

SEPTEMBER

The Austrian Tirol region is home to five glacier ski areas, including Hintertux in the Zillertal, which is open 365 days a year.

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Social Skiing in France This Winter After All

Published : 20-Sep-2013 07:18

The battle between British tour operators in France and the 'French authorities' in some of the country's top ski resorts, back by the all-powerful Ecole du ski Francais (ESF) has taken a new turn.

As we reported in the spring, French Authorities took action last winter against several British Tour Operators whose staff had been working as ski hosts, providing 'social skiing' – essentially showing skiers and boarders around ski resorts ion arrival, sticking to easy runs, pointing out good routes, how to avoid queues, best places to eat and so on.

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Serre Chevalier’s New Gondola and Bargain Stays

Published : 19-Sep-2013 08:13

Still comparatively little known to the British, Serre-Chevalier Vallée (www.serre-chevalier) is one of the largest ski areas in the Alps with 250km of lift-linked piste above 13 villages which stretch for 15km along the Guisane Valley to Briançon, France's highest Alpine town and UNESCO site (and accessible by rail).

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Chemmy Alcott breaks a World Record!

Published : 19-Sep-2013 11:49

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

From The Metro ...

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Freeze Festival Goes Large for 2013

Published : 18-Sep-2013 08:17

Freeze, promoted as, "the UK's biggest winter sports festival," is back for 2013 with a longer festival, a new venue and a later date in the year.

Freeze 2013 (www.freezefestival.com) will take place over five days from 27th November to 1st December at Clapham Common in London.

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Best Flight Price is Available 59 Days Prior to Departure – Usually

Published : 17-Sep-2013 05:09

Interesting research in to flight pricing online by travel search site momondo.co.uk has found that, on average, the cheapest flight prices could be found when booking 59 days in advance of departure (although note the points in the penultimate paragraph below!)

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Richard Branson Sets Another World Record And Helps Raise £60,000 For Snowcamp

Published : 16-Sep-2013 09:52

(Picture thanks to: Chris Skone-Roberts)

Sir Richard Branson, not one to stay on the side lines, decided it was time to set another world record yesterday. He was in the water at the Virgin Kitesurfing Armada, a more than suitable event name considering he joined 317 other kitesurfers as they attempted, successfully, to break the world record for the 'Largest Parade of kitesurfers' ever assembled.

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Early Morning Skiing in France

Published : 15-Sep-2013 04:31

Smaller resorts across the alps can now offer a six day lift pass for as little half the price of their larger neighbours, and indeed for less than many Eastern European resorts which have built a reputation for being cheap and cheerful.

La Bresse Hohneck, for example the biggest ski area in North Eastern France (making it the closest to drive to from Blighty) has only 450 metres of vertical and a little over 20k of piste but its six day lift pass is half that of bigger areas further south at 124.70 Euros for six days low season.

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Don't look now, but...

Published : 15-Sep-2013 08:47

The Wigglies have got a bit of a pleasing shape to them... 8)

Looks like a cold snap with some (whisper it) snow for the Northern Alps to start next week.

Unlikely to last but it'll look nice on the webcams... :lol:

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British Alpine ski racers do well in Southern Hemisphere

Published : 13-Sep-2013 06:20

British Alpine ski racers deliver consistent performances in the Southern Hemisphere

This season's Southern Hemisphere Alpine ski races have seen some fantastic results from many of British Ski and Snowboard's athletes.

Photo courtesy of Team BSS

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J2Ski Monthly Snow Report - September 2013

Published : 13-Sep-2013 04:20

http://www.j2ski.com/snow_forecast/

Introduction

A little later than planned, but here's our round-up of where to ski this month...

September is when we can officially start to get excited about the coming ski season. The first of the pre-Sochi Olympics international competitions have taken place in the southern hemisphere and the first snowfalls of the season have happened in the Alps and the Rockies. The southern hemisphere's 2013 season is also starting to wind down, adding to the feeling that the north is next, although its still snowing heavily in many areas, with several New Zealand resorts reporting 25cm of new snow in 24 hours in the last days of August. Heavy snowfall adding up to 15cm to glaciers in the Alps in the last week of August helped get pulses racing too.

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New Chondola For Alpe d’Huez

Published : 13-Sep-2013 01:24

Alpe d'Huez has announced improvements particularly targeted at first time skiers for the coming ski season, which begins there on 7th December.

The improvements which began last season at the resort's les Bergers area will continue for 2013-14, this time in the les Jeux sector.

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Newly Lift-Linked Ski Regions for 2013-14

Published : 12-Sep-2013 12:21

More details of one of three 'new' ski regions known to being launched this winter are emerging.

The ski amade pass in Austria provides access to more than 800km of piste on one ticket, but as with other giant ski regions most of these are made up of small, separate areas.

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Fresh Snow in the Alps

Published : 11-Sep-2013 02:19

There's been fresh snow in the Alps in the past 24 hours, helping to build anticipation for the coming ski season.

Although only a handful of glacier ski areas are currently open in Austria, Italy and Switzerland (with none in France), web cam images showed blue skies over fresh snow this morning.

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Manchester Indoor Snow Slope Up For Sale

Published : 10-Sep-2013 07:43

The Chill Factore indoor snow centre in Manchester, which opened six years ago, is up for sale for a price of £25m.

The complex, which has welcomed more than seven million visitors since opening, includes the UK's longest indoor snow slopes at 190 metres long.

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How Many Grammes of CO2 Would You Like With Your Ski Pass?

Published : 08-Sep-2013 08:39

A ski lift operator in France may be the first to publish CO2 emissions along side prices for its lift tickets for 2013-14.

The Sybelles region in the country's Maurienne region is little known in the UK but has quietly become one of the largest in Europe over the past decade with around 10 small to medium sized villages sharing a ski area of some 350km. One sector of this with over 300km of pistes is inter-connected by lifts and piste.

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Pre-Season Deals On Lift Passes

Published : 06-Sep-2013 09:12

With the start of the ski season for most resorts now three months away, most are beginning to publish their lift-pass prices for the coming winter.

Inevitably prices are creeping up by a few Euros in most cases, but it's noticeable that ever more resorts – particularly in France – are copying the US model of 'fluid pricing.'

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GO SKI GO BOARD! UK Snowsports Participation Campaign Launches

Published : 06-Sep-2013 06:13

Largest ever national snowsports participation campaign

GO SKI GO BOARD aims to get more people into skiing and snowboarding

The largest ever national snowsports participation campaign, GO SKI GO BOARD, has launched, aiming to get more people into (and back into) snowsports just five months ahead of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

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Snow-Camp Alpine Challenge 2014

Published : 06-Sep-2013 10:12

It must be nearly winter... our Inbox is filling up with PR at the moment! First out of the bag is this from our friends at Snow Camp...

The Snow-Camp Alpine Challenge is back!

If you and/or your colleagues, friends and family fancy the challenge of skiing or snowboarding a total of 150km over 2 days in the French Alps, including a night mountain hike – then the Alpine Challenge is for you! 2 non-stop days, 15 resorts, 150km of GPS tracked skiing or boarding, 15 team checkpoints to be reached, plus the night mountain hike and huge party finish!

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A little pre-season heli-ski stoke from, er, Revelstoke, British Columbia

Published : 03-Sep-2013 09:06

The PR people say...

Mountains reign supreme in British Columbia, and in the winter, they're coated in snow.

As a consequence there is terrific skiing and snowboarding resorts throughout the province as well as backcountry skiing opportunities in national and provincial parks.

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