Ski Resort and Snow News - October 2014
Topical News Story – Pumpkin Rolling on Snow
Published : 31-Oct-2014 06:07
A group of 24 children from a swimming team have taken to the indoor slopes of Chill Factore for the Halloween Pumpkin Rolling Championships.
104kg of pumpkin plummeted down the UK's longest real snow slope as Aer Lingus Swimming Club raced against one another in a bid to be the first to the bottom.
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J2Ski Snow Report - October 30th 2014
Published : 30-Oct-2014 04:48
J2Ski Snow Report - October 30th 2014
30th October, 2014
Snow Report Summary
Last week's early snows brought a flurry of excitement that, like the snow, was short-lived except at altitude where autumn snow depths have been boosted and some excellent skiing has been had!
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New Mobile Sports Therapist in 3 Valleys
Published : 29-Oct-2014 12:52
A new mobile sports therapy service will be available in the 3 Valleys this winter. Sophie Drake, who has a BSc in Sports Therapy and is the sister of GB Olympic alpine skier and skier x athlete Ed Drake, is setting up her own business in sports therapy based in Courchevel, but offering a mobile service across the 3 Valleys.
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Alpe d’Huez Focuses on Sarenne
Published : 29-Oct-2014 12:39
(Image courtesy of Alpe D'Huez/NUTS agency)[/i]
Alpe d'Huez have installed 72 snow cannons over the summer on the lower half of the world's longest black slope, the 16km (10 mile) long Sarenne descent. The snow cannons also carry lighting.
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Banksy Of The Alps Tries Crowdfunding
Published : 28-Oct-2014 04:27
An artist who says he is trying to 'lighten the mood' in the French Alps by posting murals in public spaces in ski resorts has launched a crowdfunding effort to raise £1500 he says is needed to secure a permanent location for the next piece of art – two initial pieces that were posted up in Meribel at the end of last season were quickly removed by local officials.
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Sexten Gets Connected
Published : 27-Oct-2014 11:22
After the unprecedented five pairs of ski areas getting interconnected last winter, there have been few stories of resorts joining up for 2014-15.
However one Italian area will see the two separate halves of its ski area, located on either side of a mountain valley connected for the first time thanks to the installation of two new high speed gondola lifts with eight passenger cabins.
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New 1 Stop 6 Hour Rail Service to Geneva
Published : 26-Oct-2014 10:14
Eurostar has announced a new year-round service to Geneva via Lille, in partnership with international high-speed train service "TGV Lyria".
Previously only possible by changing trains – and stations in Paris, the new service which has just started operating, allows passengers to change trains by just crossing a platform at Lille bringing the journey time to a little over six hours.
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BSS Stars to appear at London Ski Show
Published : 24-Oct-2014 03:02
Big names of British Ski and Snowboard descend on the Ski and Snowboard Show next week in London
This autumn our British Ski and Snowboard athletes will descend on the Ski and Snowboard Show in Earls Court, London from Thursday 30th October to Sunday 2nd November.
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Sun Out In The Alps after Snowy Deluge
Published : 24-Oct-2014 10:51
The sun is out again in the alps after 48 hours of heavy snowfall and the glacier resorts that are open and hoping for bumper business over the coming weekend.
The snowfall was particularly heavy in the Eastern side of the alps with up to a metre of snow reported at some areas and even low lying areas like Kitzbuhel reporting 30cm of snow. The snowfall was also down to lows levels in valleys, not just on the mountain tops as is more usual in the first half of autumn.
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J2Ski Snow Report - October 23rd 2014
Published : 23-Oct-2014 07:29
J2Ski Snow Report - October 23rd 2014
23rd October, 2014
Alpbach, 23rd October 2014, courtesy Tyrol
Snow Report Summary
The past 48 hours have seen the first major snows of the European Winter arrive, with some snowy scenes on many of the webcams we watch.
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Upto 70cm of Snowfall So Far Accumulated From Alps October Storm
Published : 23-Oct-2014 09:53
Heavy snowfall in the past 24 hours in the Alps, particularly in Eastern Switzerland and Austria, has now resulted in accumulations of up to70cm being reported on glacier slopes that are already open for snowsports.
While there are currently mid-winter like white out conditions, with temperatures in the double digits below freezing, and several reports say the snow is 'heavy and wet' rather than powder, it is good news for building depleted base levels up on the glaciers and forming a base for areas where the start of the season is still nearly two months away.
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Heavy Snow In The Alps
Published : 22-Oct-2014 09:15
It's snowing heavily in the Alps this morning. The picture above is from Verbier.
"A big, wet and windy NW system, very unusual for us this time of year, is certainly scouring ridge lines and coating the deep couloirs above Verbier with perhaps a metre of snow," a hopeful local told J2Ski.
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Ski Home Exchange Popularity Grows
Published : 21-Oct-2014 11:34
The number of mountain homes listed for home exchange on speciality website HomeExchange.com has grown by more than a third over the past two years, says the company.
British families who use HomeExchange.com have taken advantage of the service to make regular ski home exchange trips from the UK to Europe and America with properties in the Alps and Rockies among those listed.
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Incoming - First Low Snows - Standby to Dance!
Published : 19-Oct-2014 08:40
Well folks, you can break out the (snow) dancing boots.
The warm Alpine autumn is about to break down and current forecasts are showing a 15C drop in temperature over the next couple of days... together with some pretty widespread PRECIPITATION!
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Ski Himalaya Cancel Gulmarg 2015 Trips Over Islamic State Fears
Published : 18-Oct-2014 05:23
Tour Operator Ski Himalaya which operates holidays to Gulmarg, India's leading ski area has decided to cancel trips to the area this season.
The company has operated in the resort for the past nine seasons but manager Peter Robinson said he made his decision after reading statements from Islamic State in which they called upon what Mr Robinson termed 'disturbed individuals' to "not discuss" the thought of killing an innocent person with anyone else, before doing so.
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2014-15 Season Starts Tomorrow! ...in Colorado and Finland
Published : 16-Oct-2014 08:59
The ski season will kick off tomorrow, Friday 17th October, first in Finland then later in Colorado.
Although glacier ski areas or centres with 'glacier-like' permanent snow fields are already open in Europe and North America, the new openings are significant as they are the first for non-glacier resorts for 2014-15.
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New App Tells You When to Ski Home
Published : 13-Oct-2014 10:19
It's a problem many of us have faced in one of the world's giant ski areas, when we are many valleys away from our hotel and apartment and the sun is starting to go down, at what point do we need to start heading back in order to make all the successive lift connections we need to make in order to be at the bottom of the last lift we need to take to get home before it closes for the day. If we haven't been victims ourselves there are always tales of horrific taxi fares required for rescue from a remote valley from those who got their calculations wrong.
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Embattled British Ski Teacher Expands Business in to Switzerland
Published : 10-Oct-2014 08:57
Simon Butler, the British ski teacher who has also run a ski holiday business in the French resort of Megeve for the past 30 years, has opened a new division of his company in Crans Montana, Switzerland.
Mr Butler has fought a long-running legal battle with French authorities to be allowed to teach in France and was arrested on the slopes in winter 2012-13 on the grounds that he did not hold adequate teaching certifications to be allowed to teach in France.
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St Moritz Ski Areas Celebrates 150 Years
Published : 09-Oct-2014 07:14
It's 150 years since St Moritz hotelier Johannes Badrutt bet a group of departing British summer tourists that if they came back and stayed that winter they'd enjoy a sunnier, healthier winter than in damp foggy London – despite the reputation the Alps had back then in wintertime as a hoe of demons and devils.
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The World’s Most Hi Tec Thermals?
Published : 06-Oct-2014 02:45
You may not have thought thermals could get any more hi tec, but you'd be wrong!
Falke's new skiing underwear is the ultimate high performance 'onesy' weighing in at a cool £310 and described as a 'limited edition product.'
Officially named 'Skiing Underwear Falke Air Insulation' the product was "Gold Winner" in the 'Base Layer Ski' product category at the leading international trade show ISPO 2014.
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Some Areas Open, Others Don’t
Published : 05-Oct-2014 02:03
The Palmer snowfield above timberline lodge on Mt hood in Oregon has re-opened this weekend to start its (usually) 10+ month ski season, through to August 2015.
Does this mark the first ski area in North America to open? Kind of. Timberline certainly claims it is, but it's likely one of the areas now snowmaking in Colorado or New England will claim to be first in a week or two's time, having gone from grassy slopes to snow-covered, rather than in Timberline's case a glacier-like permanent year round snow field.
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Snowmaking Gets Underway in USA
Published : 03-Oct-2014 12:10
Several ski areas in Colorado have fired up their snowguns to take advantage of cold temperatures in Colorado, with the aim of being the first in the state, and possibly the country, to open for 2014-15.
Snowmaking is reported to be underway at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area (pictured above), Copper Mountain and Loveland ski areas, which may be open with a fortnight if conditions remain favourable.
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FatMap App
Published : 01-Oct-2014 06:10
A new ski mapping tool called 'FatMap' is set to revolutionise skiing and snowboarding say its creators.
Available on a phone or tablet, FatMap combines cutting edge mobile and gaming technology to produce ultra-high resolution 3D maps for use by both piste skiers and freeriders to help then plan and enjoy ski adventures by giving them knowledge to shape the perfect ski day and the tools to explore further.
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