Europe’s Most Southerly Centre Battles Low Snowfall Winter
Europe’s Most Southerly Centre Battles Low Snowfall Winter
Published : 07-Jan-2025 02:12
Europe's most southerly major ski area, Spain's Sierra Nevada, located above the ancient city of Granada and the Mediterranean sea, has had a challenging start to its 24-25 season.
Despite having the country's highest slopes, it's had very little snowfall so far this winter and could only open about 10% of its runs for the key Christmas and New Year period, having already missed another key Spanish holiday week at the start of December.
There have been more positive signs in the past few days however. The resort has announced that it will open its La Visera sector tomorrow, the first black-rated terrain to open this season, as well as pistes in the Veleta zone.
The Antonio Zayas ski lift opening on Wednesday will give access for the first time this season to the Cordón and Panorámica slopes in the Veleta area, meaning that the Granada winter resort will have almost its entire maximum vertical of 1,100 metres skiable down from the Veleta peak.
The improvement follows some fresh snowfall at last to start the week and cold temperatures allowing Sierra Nevada's snowmaking arsenal, one of Europe's largest, to fire up.
The resort received 20 centimetres of snowfall on Monday's and will have exceeds 23 skiable kilometres of piste available on Wednesday, approaching 20% of its full area.
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