Snowfall warning for North Island New Zealand Issued 24 July at 10am local time. A deepening sub-tropical depression will quickly cross North Island on Saturday accompanied by a short period of gales and heavy rain. Expect easterly blizzard conditions to develop on Ruapehu as well as the ranges from the Tararuas to the Kawekas and perhaps even further north. A Cool SE flow with further bands of snow for mountains elsewhere. Many resorts have seen more than 20cm snow over the past 24hrs.

Val Gardena, Italy

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Val Gardena includes the ski areas Selva Gardena, S.Cristina and Ortisei. The area is connected with the Dolomiti Superski area and the nearby Alpe di Siusi. There are slopes etc to appeal to all abilities here.

Resorts close to Val Gardena include: Santa Cristina (3 km), Ortisei (7 km), Corvara (8 km), Alba di Canazei (9 km), Campitello (9 km),

	Trails (Pistes): 31	Halfpipes: 2
	Summit: 2518 m	Toplift: m
	Beg: 30% Int: 60% Adv: 10%	Terrain Parks: 1
	Vertical Drop: 1282 m	X-Country: 10 km
	Lifts: 31 (12 chairlifts, 16 surface lifts)	Snowmaking: 85%
	Gondolas / Cable Cars: 3	Slopeside accom.: Y
	Restaurants: 52	Acres of ski: -
	Bars: 18	Nearest Airport: Bolzano/Innsbruck
	Nearest Train: Bolzano / Bressanone	Info phone: +39 0471 777777 \| Val Gardena Resort Info Website

Visitor Reviews of Val Gardena

neil kelly from UNITED KINGDOM writes:

Just come back from Selva on Saturday (7th Jan 2006)and had a super week with a party of 12, staying at the hotel Flora via Neilsons.

HOTEL
This is the first year Neilson have offered Selva and the first year the Flora has been open to the British. And the service from both was brilliant. The hotel served up 5 courses every night, (7 on NY's eve) the rooms, bar and restaurant are lovely Tyrolean design and warm. Heated racks in the bootroom. The hotel offers free entry to the weekly Ice Hockey games at the ring next door.

LOCATION
Note - Its a 10 -15 minute walk up to the Main gondola station in town, so get a ski bus pass (3 euros) from the Tabac or the Information Centre in town. Though we didn't as found the walk a good warm up for the days skiing.

PISTE
First two days, the weather was cloudy and the snow came down in bucket loads, this caused a few problems for the bashers as the snow mounded up into moguls on the busy runs and left the ice layer exposed in places, you had to have your wits about you. But once it stopped snowing and got well compacted, conditions were second to none.

The pass covers a huge ski area, and a trip to the hidden valley is well worth it, if you get tired of the Val Gardena. (Which you wont). Also , the Sella Ronda is excellent.

Amazing scenery everywhere, though not the most border friendly resort as the blues in places require poleing along as are very gentle. The Reds are better and the Blacks are only really crimson. Nothing too hard even for me, and intermediate. Steep runs are often very wide so cause only a few problems. I honestly found some of the Reds harder than the Blacks, as the mounds of snow grew from the numbers of people passing over them.

APRES
The only place we found that was lively was the Luis Keller, even for NY's week most places were quite. The Luis Keller is busy, and plays some terrible music, but you'll sing along to anything if theres enough of you and you've had the odd beer.