Ski News from J2Ski - October 2021

Ski Resort and Snow News - October 2021

Val d’Isère Creates New Ski Area For Teens

Published : 31-Oct-2021 07:30

Val d'Isère is creating a new ski-in/ski-out area for its younger visitors this winter.

Young skiers will be able to wander through the trees on suspended walkways, which lead to wooden tree houses.

Describing it as an "on-slope adventure" and christening it Village Perdu, the new area is located within the Etroits forest, 2,000m up.

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Kitzbuhel Opens For the 21-22 Season

Published : 30-Oct-2021 06:17

Kitzbuhel has opened for its 21-22 season, using snow farming (saving snow from last winter then spreading it back out on the slopes) to create a slope of just under a kilometre long in its Resterkogel sector.

Despite having one of the lowest altitude ski areas of the major resorts in the Alps, prior to the pandemic, Kitzbuhel endeavoured to open for at least 200 days each season from October to May. It's unclear if that's the aim this winter, previously it opened earlier in October in order to achieve it.

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Florida’s First Snow Park Re-Opening In November

Published : 29-Oct-2021 02:42

Florida's first snow themed park, Scowcat Ridge, which debuted last autumn despite the impact of the pandemic, re-opens in October for its second winter season and has new attractions promised.

Snowcat Ridge's main attraction is outdoor tubing hill with dry ski slope surface, some 60 feet (17 metres) high and 400 feet (122 metres) long, but there's an arctic igloo with indoor real snow play and an Alpine themed village.

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EU to accept UK's NHS COVID pass

Published : 29-Oct-2021 12:56

Good news for all who have to travel from the UK into Europe to ski this winter; the NHS COVID pass will be valid wherever the EU Digital Certificate is required.

[i]Copied from https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/mex_21_5645

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Klammer Movie Premieres

Published : 28-Oct-2021 12:14

The premier of the film focussed on the build up to Franz Klammer's famous victory at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck has premiered in his home state of Carinthia, Austria.

Snow was brought down from the Mölltal Glacier to the Cineplexx in Villach where the premiere of "Klammer - Chasing the Line" was staged to help build the atmosphere.

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Two French Glaciers Now Open For 21-22 Ski Season

Published : 27-Oct-2021 07:48

Les 2 Alpes has joined Tignes in opening for winter 21-22. The French glacier resort had been hosting team training before it began a for night of operations to the general skiing and boarding public. It will close again after the first weekend in November before re-opening for its winter season a few weeks later. Tignes, which opened last week, is aiming to stay open through to next May.

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Over a Metre (40 Inches) Of October Snowfall For California

Published : 26-Oct-2021 05:40

An incredible snowstorm which some are reporting as the biggest ever single October snowfall has hit the North American west coast with the Lake Tahoe region reporting the biggest accumulations.

Mt Rose reported 38-42" (95-105cm) of new snow in around 24 hours and referencing the fact that the snow fell as rain over much of California said,

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Inaugural National Snow Show goes well at Birmingham NEC

Published : 25-Oct-2021 09:10

This weekend the NEC in Birmingham hosted the new National Snow Show - the first consumer ski and snowboard show after two Covid-interrupted years.

Although 20,000 tickets had been sold in advance, many of these were booked using free codes, so exhibitors were unsure what the turnout would be like.

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New Médran Gondola for Verbier

Published : 19-Oct-2021 07:20

Verbier will be opening a new gondola this winter, meaning it will take just 6 minutes for skiers and snowboarders to get from the Swiss resort to Les Ruinettes.

The new Médran IV lift will take the original route of the previous lift. The stylish new 10-seater cabins are fully glazed so holidaymakers can enjoy views over Verbier and the surrounding valleys.

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U.S. Opening Borders to Vaccinated Foreign Skiers & Boarders From November 8th

Published : 18-Oct-2021 06:46

White House officials have confirmed that leisure travel will be allowed to resume to the U.S. from November 8th from a number of countries including those in the EU and UK.

However open fully vaccinated travellers will be allowed in, having a negative test only will not be acceptable. Along with being fully vaccinated arrivals in the US will need to complete contact tracing and have had a negative test result in the previous 72 hours however.

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North American Ski Season Starting Sunday (or Sooner)

Published : 15-Oct-2021 06:21

Colorado's Arapahoe Basin has announced it will open for the 2021-22 season this Sunday, October 17th.

"Black Mountain Express will be running and skiers and riders can cruise High Noon. We just might have a few features in the Banana Terrain Park. These are exciting times. It is so fun to get chairlifts spinning again. I can't wait to see all of your smiling faces on the hill," said resort COO Alan Henceroth.

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US 21-22 Season Start Imminent After Big Powder Dump

Published : 13-Oct-2021 06:26

A large snow storm hitting Western North America has allowed skiers to make the first powder turns of the 21-22 season in Colorado and Utah.

Up to 14" (35cm) of snowfall has been reported so far, with the snow still falling.

It's unusual, but not unheard of to see such a big early snowfall, although its extent – bringing snow to the Sierras and Cascades on the West Coast is quite rare for early October.

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Apres Ski Rules in Austria Dependent on COVID Levels

Published : 09-Oct-2021 12:50

It's no surprise that the famously raucous après ski scene at some Austrian resorts will not be the case this coming winter, but the country's government has come up with measures to decide exactly what it can be like.

In short, it depends a lot on the impact of COVID in Austria next winter, and the rules could change quickly if things get worse, but it seems skiers that are fully vaccinated – or have evidence that they're recently recovered from a COVID 19 infection - will have the best hope of the least restricted experience.

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New 8 Seat Chairlift For Sunday River

Published : 08-Oct-2021 10:16

[b]It has taken a long time for 8-seat chairlifts to begin to appear in North America. The world's first opened in Norway in the late 1990s but it was two decades before America's first was installed at Big Sky in Montana.

Since then though the giant chairlifts seem to be gaining favour with several more announced in recent months set to open over the next few seasons.

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Mont Blanc shrinks by almost 1 metre

Published : 06-Oct-2021 01:20

The latest official measurement of Europe's highest mountain, Mont Blanc in Chamonix , shows that it is now 91cm smaller at 4,807.81 metres.

The measurement was performed by surveyors, accompanied by high mountain guides, in the Haute Savoie last month on the weekend of 16-17 September.

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New Ski-in Ski-out Year-Round Test Centre for Zermatt

Published : 06-Oct-2021 08:28

Zermatt has announced a brand new ski equipment test centre will open on its year-round ski slopes this month.

The New Matterhorn Testcenter is located on the resort's Theodul glacier offering skiers and boarders the opportunity to test the latest ski models on one of the planet's only two remaining ski areas attempting to open 365 days a year, weather permitting.

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E-Quad Riding On Swiss Snow

Published : 03-Oct-2021 02:06

Ski resorts continue to offer more and more alternatives to JUST skiing or boarding on the snow, and there's also an onus from most in doing things in an environmentally friendly way.

So petrol heads will find it increasingly harder to find ice circuits to skid gas-guzzling cars around, with many of these already now offering electric cars instead and the other old favourite of snowmobiling is also switching to electric versions.

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Italy & Switzerland To Stage First-Ever Cross-Border World Cup Races

Published : 02-Oct-2021 05:44

Zermatt and Cervinia are to host the first ever Alpine World Cup ski races to cross an international border.

Potentially taking place for the first time in just over a year's time in Autumn 2022, the two resorts will host both downhill and super-G races for both men and women at the start of the season.

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