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Cervinia Reports 2.4 Metres (8 Feet) of Snowfall in Past 7 Days (90cm in Last 24 hrs)

Cervinia, on the Italian side of the Matterhorn from Zermatt, has reported another 90cm of snow has fallen in the past 24 hours, taking its 7 day accumulation total up to 2.4 metres – or eight feet. The ski area is already open for winter 2019-20 and is currently welcoming skiers and borders with slopes boasting incredibly deep fresh powder for this early in the season – it’s upper slope base depth is already 255cm (8.5 feet) and there’s more than 70cm (over two feet) of snow lying in resort. Temperatures are also reported to be well in to double digits below freezing. Cervinia’s neighbour Zermatt reported 70cm of snow in the past 24 hours and resorts across the Alps…

snowhunter 15th November 2019

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Ski Areas in The Pyrenees and The Dolomites open Early For 19-20 Season

A number of ski areas in the Dolomites and in the Pyrenees have opened for the 2019-20 ski season earlier than planned after heavy snowfall in Western Europe. Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Italian Dolomites (pictured top) opened on Sunday, 20 days earlier than its previously announced opening date of November 30th after heavy snowfall down to village level. The ski season in the Pyrenees got underway today at Alp 2500, the ski area shared by Masella (above) and La Molina in Spain. A second Spanish ski area, Formigal, says it will open on Saturday (16th) when the first in the French Pyrenees is also due to open for its 2019-20 season. Most ski areas in the Pyrenees have had at…

snowhunter 13th November 2019

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Biggest Snow Storm of the Autumn so Far Moves in to the Alps and Pyrenees

A large storm system has begun moving up the Western side of Europe, bringing heavy snowfall to the Pyrenees and Western Alps which is expected to continue for the next two to four days. Named ‘Storm Amélie’ in France, where some regions are currently under an amber warning, the storm is expected to deposit anywhere between 50cm (20 inches) and 150cm (five feet) in many mountainous areas, with the heaviest snow forecast above 2,000 metres. Alpe d'Huez in France this morning The snow is being driven in on strong winds in many areas leading a number of the 15+ ski areas already open for the 19-20 ski season in the Alps to close their slopes whilst it blows through. There…

snowhunter 3rd November 2019

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Lake Louise and Winter Park Opening Early, This Weekend

More than twenty ski areas are already open for winter 2019-20 in Europe, North America and Japan but the pace of opening is quickening from November 1st as an increasing number of big name resorts open, some of them several weeks earlier than planned. In Canada and the US the early openings are in part thanks to record-breaking October snow totals in some areas. Steamboat, although it has not yet announced it will open early, has had over 1.5 metres (five feet) of snowfall this month and Keystone (44 inches/110cm), which was one of the first in North America to open a fortnight ago, almost as much. Verbier had announced that it was planning to open this weekend on Saturday…

snowhunter 31st October 2019

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Another Colorado Resort Opens As One Claims October Already Snowiest on Record

One Colorado resort that doesn’t open until next month says it has already had more snowfall this month than in any previous October since it opened. Steamboat says it has had 110cm (44 inches) of snowfall since October 1st. The first two ski resorts to open in North America for winter 2019-20, a fortnight ago, Arapahoe Basin and Keystone, are both reporting increasingly snowy conditions, as are other resorts across the state, where most will be opening over the next four weeks. The latest, Loveland, opened earlier today. It has been a different picture on the Eastern side of the US where there’s another battle to be the first to open, usually requiring snowmaking. But it has been too warm…

snowhunter 25th October 2019

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Canada’s Ski Season To Start Early

Canada’s Nakiska ski area, the closest resort to Alberta’s capital Calgary, has announced it will open for a ‘preview weekend’ on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th October, it’s earliest ever. The resort, which was also a venue for the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, is usually one of the first to open in Western Canada in early November along with ski areas around nearby Banff, but this year it looks to be opening a week or two ahead of the others. (Nakiska current snow cover) Nakiska may also be the first to open in Canada although Quebec ski area Mont-Saint-Sauveur usually opens a run using snowmaking in October, this year it too is reported to be targeting Saturday 26th October. Lifts…

snowhunter 18th October 2019

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Skier Completes 10 Years of Skiing Every Month of the Year on Scottish Snow

A Scottish skier has managed to make some turns on Scottish snow every month of the year for ten straight years. That’s 120 consecutive months on Scottish snow. Former Geography teacher Helen Rennie said that over the past decade she has had increasing difficulty finding surviving snow patches to ski in late summer/early autumn each year. Helen, now 65, started her monthly ski trips, aged 55, when she was recovering from oesophageal cancer in 2009 and looking for a personal challenge. She has found snow in the Cairngorms every month except for September 2013, 2017 and 2019, when she had to ski a snow patch at Aonach Beag by Nevis Range, a feat that required a six mile hike there…

snowhunter 17th October 2019

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US 2019-20 Ski Season Underway

The 2019-20 ski season in North America has got underway this weekend at two of the world’s highest resorts up in Colorado’s Summit County. Three ski areas – Arapahoe Basin, Keystone and Loveland – had all been snowmaking and building up bases here for more than a week before heavy snowfall arrived late on Wednesday and continued through Thursday, bringing up to about a foot (30cm) of fresh snow to the highest slopes. Keystone was the first to announce it would open, saying on Friday that it would open next morning, Saturday 12th October. At that point Arapahoe Basin announced it would be opening too, but even sooner, just a few hours after it’s announcement at 3.30pm on Friday 11th. …

snowhunter 13th October 2019

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Southern Hemisphere’s 2019 Ski Season Extending in to November

The southern hemisphere’s 2019 ski season is nearly over with ,more than 80% of ski areas in South America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand now closed until 2020 as far as snowsports are concerned. But about half-a-dozen areas, mostly in New Zealand, are still open, although for most the coming weekend is the last one. The largest ski area in Australia, Perisher, is due to close, as is Catedral near Baroiloche in Argentina, above, South America’s largest. However two ski areas on one mountain in New Zealand are planning to stay open to later in October and today one has announced plans to open at weekends in November too – the last month of meteorological spring ion the southern…

snowhunter 11th October 2019

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Big Snowfalls as North America Prepares to Launch 2019-20 Ski Season

Heavy snowfall at the week and Monday in the north-western corner of North America has raised excitement levels for the start of the 2019-20 ski season in the USA - potentially just days, and definitely at worst only a few weeks away. Montana got the biggest falls, with reports of up to four feet (1.2 metres) of “heavy wet snow” in parts of the state. The governor declared a temporary state of emergency in the affected areas. https://www.facebook.com/jacksonhole/videos/1013737695684800/ Just to the south in Wyoming, Jackson Hole (video above posted yesterday and pictured top) was dumped on too. Further north in BC, Canada, several ski areas reported at least 60cm (two feet) of snowfall. This was Apex resort. NASA took this…

snowhunter 2nd October 2019

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