The 6th Annual North Lake Tahoe Truckee Earth Day Festival was held in Squaw Valley on April 26th. The theme for this year’s event was “Giant Steps Towards Smaller Footprints,” with a focus on issues such as Zero Waste, green building, climate change, forest and habitat preservation, recycling, and more.
Continue reading ‘Squaw Valley celebrates Earth Day’
Monthly Archive for May, 2008
Ski Portillo in Chile is to offer its first invigorating skiing and restorative yoga week this August.
Professional skiers Kate Olson and Kiffor Berg together with renowned yoga instructor Simon Park will combine their passion and expertise in both skiing and yoga to host this week-long retreat at Ski Portillo.
Over the course of the week, participants will learn new techniques to improve their skiing in the big mountain style terrain with expert coaches, video analysis, and back country awareness. Every morning and evening will begin and end with yoga classes designed to improve the on-mountain experience and cultivate greater body strength and awareness.
The Ski and Yoga Retreat runs from August 23rd to 30th and costs US$2000 per person including three hours of yoga daily and six hours of ski training. A retreat package that also includes seven nights’ accommodation, four meals daily and a seven day lift ticket costs US$4190 per person.
www.skiyoga.com
The world’s top snowboarders will once again return to the giant superpipe and slopestyle courses at Snow Park NZ in Lake Wanaka for five days of world-class snowboarding action during the Burton New Zealand Open Snowboarding Championships from July 29th to August 2nd.
Continue reading ‘Burton NZ open comes to life’
Ski Bromont in Quebec have taken the unusual step of asking their clientèle exactly where they would like a $7m investment to be spent.
The resort has given its customers the cloice of extending the main chalet or installing a new ski lift on the Versant des Épinettes.
More than 12,000 people took the time to express their preference and the votes and comments are still being counted.
So far, the results show a tendency towards the ski lift and more sitting room in the modules.”
said a company spokesman.
“Over the next few weeks, Ski Bromont will attempt to take the best strategic, financial and workable decision, taking into account the schedule. Everything is under study at this time, but you can be assured that 2008-2009 will be full of great surprises!” he added.
Recent snowstorms brought Crested Butte Mountain Resort (CBMR) more than 31 inches, with 17 inches of accumulation taking the resort’s total snowfall to 418 inches for the 2007-2008 season, catapulting the resort past the previous record of 415 inches set in the winter of 1979-1980.
Since early December, snow has fallen at Crested Butte on more than half of the days this winter, with record snowfall in December, January and February. With storm totals accumulating anywhere from eight to 32 inches, it has been “Powderlicious” this winter in Crested Butte.
I have had so many guests and locals say that they have had their ‘best day ever’ this winter,”
said Ken Stone, VP and Chief Marketing Officer.
Australia’s ski areas will unveil more than $100m (Aus) in upgrades this winter when they open in June. Mt Buller has spent $6 million on a new six-seater chairlift which will run from Bourke St to the top of the mountain.
Another new chairlift, a triple, will open at Selwyn Snowfields.
Mt Hotham, Falls Creek, Thredbo and Perisher Blue will all unveil expanded snowmaking systems. Thredbo now has more than 150 snow guns; Perisher Blue’s coverage will extend from the mid-station of the quad chair down to Front Valley and Hotham will have snowmaking into Heavenly Valley and Falls Creek’s coverage will extend to the bottom of Wombat’s Ramble, Australia’s longest beginner run.
A study by Spain’s High Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in to the future of the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain, including Andorra, warns that average temperatures will rise by at least 2.8ºC by 2100 in a best case scenario in which greenhouse gas emissions are low, and by around 4ºC in the worst-case, high-emissions scenario. At the same time, the amount of rain and snow fall is expected to plunge by between 10.7 percent and 14.8 percent per year.
The researchers predict that this will mean much less precipitation and a far shorter snow season, if there is one at all.
The study is based on six regional climate models that were able to accurately estimate climatic conditions between 1960 and 1990 in the Pyrenees.