Marmot opened up its latest chair giving skiers up to 24% more time to ski.

Marmot Basin chairman John Day has officially opened the Jasper, Alberta, ski resort’s newest chair lifts, the six million dollar Paradise high speed quad chair, and the School House triple chair.

Continue reading ‘Marmot Basin opens Canada’s biggest ski lift development of the year’

A sketch of the Alpina Gstaad. It is the first five star hotel to be built at the resort in 100 years.

A new hotel currently being built in Gstaad Switzerland will be the first all new five star in the legendary Swiss resort to open in 100 years. The 57-room Alpina Gstaad (www.thealpinagstaad.ch) is scheduled to open in December following an investment of 300m Francs (320m USD) and will contain suites providing spectacular views of the Bernese Alps as well as a bar lounge, three restaurants, wine tasting room, cigar room, spa treatment room, ballroom and boardroom. Continue reading ‘New five star hotel in Gstaad is first in 100 years’

Bramabuel drag lift has been replaced.

A new quad chairlift has replaced the notorious Bramabuel draglift at Davos Klosters (www.davos.ch) this winter. The high speed lift will depart from the middle station of the Jakobshorn gondola to Bramabuel, the location of the region’s steepest mogul piste. Continue reading ‘New quad replaces poma lift to the steepest run in Davos Klosters’

Dizin ski resort has invested heavily to bring back the lustre in this resort established since 1969

Dizin, once a shining gem of Iran, faded away and has come back with a vast revitalization plan to restore the previous lustre of the mountain and resort.   Continue reading ‘Big revival project at Iranian ski area aims to bring back glory’

Killington Ski Resort to get new mountain top chalet for 2012

Killington resort in Vermont has announced plans to build a new mountaintop restaurant as part of a $6.5 million investment. The new restaurant replaces the Peak Lodge which served as the return station under the original gondola. Continue reading ‘Killington to build new summit restaurant for 2012-13 season’

Plans are in gear to build a new indoor snowdome facility in Western England

If plans to turn a former Royal Air Force base into the UK’s seventh and longest indoor snow centre are approved, then shovels may break the earth this year on the proposal.
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Breckenridge may be starting up 2012 with Peak 6 if all goes well.

Plans to develop a sixth peak at Breckenridge, Colorado, one of the country’s most popular ski resorts received a green light by the US Forest service to add 550 acres of terrain serviced by a new six-seater chair lift. Continue reading ‘US Forest Service says ‘Yes’ to Breckenridge expansion’