Ski Resort and Snow News - May 2011
$6.5m Of Free Lift Tickets for US Military from Squaw Valley
Published : 31-May-2011 04:19
Squaw Valley by Lake Tahoe in California, one of a doazen US resorts still open or re-opening for snow sports for the country's Memorial Day weekend is offering free skiing to active American military personnel.
"In honour of Memorial Day and those that protect the nation, Squaw Valley will extend free lift tickets to active duty military personnel for the entire long weekend." said a resort statement.
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Mountain Festival In July At Kitzsteinhorn
Published : 29-May-2011 09:35
The Kitzsteinhorn Mountain above Kaprun, one of the five glacier ski areas in Austria where the 2010-11 ski season is still in full swing, has announced a big party in July.
The Mountain Festival on Sunday, 3rd July, will be, the resort says,
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Vail Resorts Announce Plans To Spend $30m At Northstar
Published : 27-May-2011 08:42
Northstar-at-Tahoe
Vail Resorts, which owns four ski areas in Colorado (Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Vail) and now two in California has announced plans to lavish $30m in upgrades on its newest purchase, Northstar-at-Tahoe.
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Where To Ski or Board In Europe This Summer
Published : 26-May-2011 07:54
The opening patterns of Europe's glacier snow sports areas in the summer change each year, and seem to have little rhyme or reason to them.
At the turn of the century (that's 20th to 21st) there were about 20 ski areas open at some point each summer in the Alps and half a dozen open year round. That numbers now halved to 20 with only two – Tux in Austria and Zermatt in Switzerland - the continent's highest ski area touching 3899m in summer – open year round, weather permitting.
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May 20 – The Biggest Day For Skiing In 2011 So Far?
Published : 18-May-2011 12:47
Zermatt - always open.
May 20th isn't usually the biggest day in the skiing year, and perhaps it's a tad tenuous to claim is this year. But although this is the low point of 2011 in terms of the number of ski areas open worldwide – less than 30 in fact, or 0.5% of the world total - the stars seem to be in alignment for it to be a significant date for the snowsports obsessed.
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Whistler Ready For Crud 2 Mud
Published : 18-May-2011 12:42
Whistler's annual Crud 2 Mud race is lined up for May 29th this year.
The race which combines snowsports on skis or board and mud, on a mountain bike, is described as, "the ultimate rite of passage for true mountain living," by its organisers.
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Snow In The Southern Hemisphere
Published : 11-May-2011 12:37
Perisher
After pre-season snowfalls in New Zealand last month it's Australia's turn to see some healthy snowfalls in the past 24 hours.
The country's largest resort, Perisher in New South Wales, turned on the snow guns for the first time last night (May 10) as temperatures dropped, but then the natural snowfall began, depositing 15cm (six inches) over night. The resort says that it expects the snow to fall through to Friday.
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They’re Still Skiing Out West
Published : 09-May-2011 09:42
Still Skiing At Squaw
The number of 'still open for snow sports' ski areas in the Alps has plumetted to less than 20 in the past week with every ski centre in France now closed, but open ski areas in the western US unusually remain in double figures thanks to the big snowfalls which, to a lesser extent, are still occurring in California.
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New Cable Car To Link Cervinia and Zermatt
Published : 06-May-2011 05:58
A new cable car will open next year linking Cervinia to Plateau Rosa from where you can ski down on the Swiss side of the border to Zermatt.
The new Plateau Rosà cable car will, the resort days, offer better comfort and better views from the futuristic cabin design manufactured by Doppelmayr.
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2017 Alpine Ski World Championships Heading back To Europe
Published : 04-May-2011 01:47
Cortina - Candidate
The International Ski Federation (FIS - www.fis-ski.com) has announced that three European ski resorts are bidding to host the 2017 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.
By the May 1st 2011 deadline applications had been received from ?re in Sweden (which hosted the Championships as recently as 2007), Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy (which has hosted the Championships three times previously, including the second ever event in 1932, but not since the last time in 1956) and St. Moritz in Switzerland which has previously hosted the Championships on four occasions in 1938, 1948, 1974 and 2003 and has been an unsuccessful bidder in several recent contests to stage the event.
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