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The first of Norway’s three summer ski resorts will begin its 2019 season this Saturday, 13th April, 2019. Managers at the country’s Folgefonna glacier, better known as Fonna, say their 2019 season will kick off at 10am tomorrow. Resort teams have been working for weeks to clear access roads and prepare slopes and resort infrastructure after the winter shut down during which everything gets buried in snow.  The snow is currently lying several metres deep. The Galdhøpiggen Sommerskisenter plans to open second on May 9th, 2019 https://vimeo.com/229096989?fbclid=IwAR2fc4gJ7UGGCGuwZV9ONU9si3_d2zS9dUUCjQmR_HcTa2JNd7dxTUZdhhg Finally the country’s Stryn summer ski area will join them on 29th May. This picture was published by Stryn this week of how conditions are looking ahead of the start of the seasion…

Engelberg is reporting that the snow depth on its Titlis glacier has reached 7.3 metres (24.3 feet) after the resort received a metre of snowfall on its upper slopes between Wednesday and Friday this week. It is the first time any ski area in the world has posted a snow depth figure of over 7 metres this year. The heavy  snowfall across the Alps has seen some massive accumulations reported with a number of resorts including Solden in Austria, Gressoney (pictured above yesterday) and the Schnalstal glacier in Italy and Bellwald in Switzerland reporting a metre (40 inch) of snowfalls in 24 hours. 48 hour totals of as much as 185cm (over six feet) have also been reported. Of the…

Scottish ski areas are hoping that the recent arrival of heavy snowfall may allow them to re-open terrain for the Easter holidays. Winter 18-19 has been a challenging one flor the country’s five Highland ski areas with a long dry period at the start meaning the season hardly got going until February.  Then the warmest ever recorded temperatures thawed all the cover. This re-built through the first half of March allowing all five areas to re-open for a few weeks with, at the high point a fortnight ago, more than 70 runs open.  However subsequent further thawing at the end of the month had meant Cairngorm, Glenshee (pictured above on Sunday when officially closed for snowsports) and The Lecht had…

It has been snowing in Australia, a little over two months before the start of the 2019 ski season there is due to commence. https://www.facebook.com/PerisherResort/videos/2717756121586126/ Temperatures dipped to as low as -4C overnight at the weekend, on the last two days of March. Thredbo is pictured top on Sunday, Perisher below. Although there were few proper snow depth measurements taken, with the snow likely to thaw fast as temperatures rise to double digits above freezing over the next few days, some visitors posting on social media guesstimated 5-10cm fell. https://www.facebook.com/hothamalpineresort/videos/2295280290743205/ Australia's ski resorts are traditionally among the first in the southern hemisphere to open in early June each year, whether or not they have snow cover. Thredbo Aussie resorts open…