Tignes Opens For Summer Skiing
Tignes Opens For Summer Skiing
Published : 18-Jun-2023 08:40
Tignes is believed to have opened for its 2023 summer ski season, joining neighbouring Val d'Isere which opened last week for a four-week summer ski season. The two areas have 20km of slopes reported open.
Les 2 Alpes in to the final fortnight of a planned two-month summer ski season to the end of June, is also open giving France three areas currently open compared to one each in Austria (Hintertux), Italy (Passo Stelvio) and Switzerland (Zermatt).
It was a cool spring but temperatures are no climbing above freezing day and night on glaciers with lows around +1C, highs art around +10C at 3,000m, the freezing point up around 4,000m.
Tignes had posted the deepest snow in Europe for much of the 22-23 winter season with the snow depth peaking at around 5 metres in early spring and the season ending in early May with the snow depth still around 4 metres and the snow still falling. It appears to have lost a metre or so of that snow depth in the intervening six weeks however and opens with a reported 2.7m lying. That's the second-deepest of the six glacier ski areas currently open in the Alps, behind year-round Hintertux in Austria reporting 315cm lying there.
Summer ski seasons have tended to get shorter and shorter and end altogether in some areas across the Alps over the past few decades due to climate change. Austria's Dachstein glacier was the latest to stop summer skiing and indeed Alpine skiing altogether, earlier this year.
Tignes was formerly open every day of the year, then aimed to open every month, but in 2023 its hoping to open for five weeks, to July 23rd. Last summer it was forced to end its summer skiing after only a few days due to rapid thawing of the thin cover, this year is so far looking more promising due to the greater winter snow build up.
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