Ski Resort and Snow News - August 2016
Kitzbühel Defies Predictions And Extends Season
Published : 30-Aug-2016 11:56
(image credit: Valerii Tkachenko)
Kitzbühel has published data showing that its ski seasons have got progressively longer, on average, over the past two decades.
The famous resort in the Austrian Tirol opened for an average 1409 days back in the early 1990s but has been opening up to 155 days for snowsports in recent seasons – stretching the snow cover period by more than two weeks.
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Photos of the redevelopment of the Solaise lift in Val d'Isere
Published : 30-Aug-2016 10:24
Regular visitors to J2ski.com will know that the current Solaise Express chairlift in Val d'Isere is being replaced with a 10-person gondola.
Work on the redevelopment of the resort's third most used lift is currently underway. We took these photos of progress on the base station earlier this month.
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New Direct Flight From Gatwick to Are
Published : 28-Aug-2016 08:20
Scandinavia seems to be (re)gaining ground as an ever more popular ski destination with Crystal offering Trysil in Norway new this year as well as Levi and Yllas in Lapland (already offered by Inghams), and Igluski announcing ski holidays to Oslo to visit the Norwegian capital's small local ski area at Tryvann which can be reached by tram from the city centre.
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To Ski Iran or Iraq?
Published : 25-Aug-2016 09:32
Although there's a serious lack of interesting new conventional ski destinations for the UK's leading ski tour operators for this coming winter, with most just offering the same places others already offer, there are, rather surprisingly, some new more unusual destinations to try.
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First Snows of '2016-17' in Northern Hemisphere
Published : 22-Aug-2016 08:19
Snowfall has been reported on mountain tops in Colorado and areas of the Northwestern USA raising anticipating for winter 16-17 for some.
In fact snowfall year round on high mountains is fairly common, it's just that it's that time of year…
The snow in the US comes a week after up to 15cm/6 inches of fresh snow fell on the Folgefonn and Galdhoppigen summer glacier ski areas in Norway to the delight of skiers and boarders expecting old snow in August and instead finding powder.
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20cm Fresh August Powder in Europe
Published : 12-Aug-2016 03:15
The most optimistic of skiers and boarders can be forgiven for getting excited about the season ahead with the news that a 20cm (8 inch) snowfall was reported in the last 24 hours on Norway's Fonna glacier summer ski area up in Scandinavia.
Skiers and boarders visiting Fonna yesterday and today were greeted by fresh August powder on the slopes where the snow is lying 3m/10 feet deep – the second deepest reported snow base in the world - northern and southern hemispheres. The other still-open Norwegian summer ski area, Galdhoppigen, claims the deepest at 5 metres on its upper slopes.
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Vail Buys Whistler
Published : 09-Aug-2016 08:43
Vail Resorts have announced they are buying the 2010 Winter Olympics venue and North America's largest ski area, Whistler Blackcomb.
It's the latest and arguably most audacious purchased yet by Vail which will now operate a dozen ski areas in three countries, including the two largest in North America, having created the latest 'biggest in the US' last season by merging two formerly separate areas at Park City in Utah.
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Then There Was One… Ski Show Left
Published : 03-Aug-2016 12:05
This year's London Ski and snowboard Show looks set to be the only major show in the UK this Autumn after organisers Telegraph Events confirmed they were dropping their 'North' show in Manchester.
In an email response to an enquiry from J2Ski a spokesperson for Telegraph Events said that previous online ticket buyers for the Manchester show had received an email discount for the London show in October this autumn.
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Significant Snow Event in progress for NZ South Island
Published : 03-Aug-2016 09:53
Snow has been falling across much of New Zealand South Island today, and is expected to continue, bringing significant fresh snow to many NZ ski areas.
Snow at Mt. Cheeseman, picture courtesy of Cheeseman via Stuff.Co.Nz
There's excellent coverage of the ongoing snows in this article at Stuff.
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View Of The Alps From Snowy English Slopes Turn Swiss
Published : 02-Aug-2016 01:18
The spectacular views of the Alps enjoyed by skiers and boarders descending on the year-round snow slopes of The Snow Centre north of London have turned from the Austrian Tirol to the Swiss Valais region.
Switzerland tourism has signed a major deal with The Snow Centre that has seen as massive mountain montage from Switzerland covering its walls to provider spectacular mountain scenery indoors.
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J2Ski's Where to Ski in August 2016
Published : 01-Aug-2016 10:18
Welcome to our global snow round-up for August; more snow for Europe's summer ski areas and some big snowfalls to report from the Southern Hemisphere.
Tiffindell, South Africa, where 60cm of snow this weekend left the resort snowed in - please check their Facebook page for latest updates before travelling...
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