Cairngorm resort made history this week when they powered up the lifts so late in the season.

Cairngorm Mountain above Aviemore in Scotland has finally decided to call it a day on their 2009-10 ski season after opening in June for the first time in 18 years.

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After such a good year at Nikeso, a Japanese prays for more snow ahead of the 2010-11 season.

Niseko in Japan, is widely renowned as the second snowiest ski resort in the world (behind Mt Baker in Washington State, USA), reported its 09-10 season snowfall was, “a little above average” with a total of 18 metres (about 60 feet) of snow.
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Big snow at Treble Cone in New Zealand as resort officially kicks off 2010 season

With good snowfall conditions in most of the southern hemisphere, the 2010 ski season officially kicked off last weekend with Coronet Peak New Zealand reporting a 50cm (20 inch) base including 15cm (six inches) of new snow.  Thousands of Queenslanders hit the piste to celebrate.

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Welsh Alpine Championships to take place at Champery and Les Crosets

Switzerland Tourism, Emmi UK limited and the resorts of Champery and Les Crosets, Switzerland are headed onto the slopes of Pontypool, South Wales this Saturday to watch some Welsh ski racing and to promote snowsports in Switzerland.

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Fredrik with Talung in background

Swedish ski mountaineer Fredrik Ericsson has announced plans to complete ski descent of K2 again this summer, a year after his first attempt was curtailed by the death of his expedition partner, Italian Michele Fait, who fell to his death while skiing down from K2’s C2 on the SSE spur.

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An aerial view of Mountain Creek resort which was recently sold by Intrawest.

Following a string of selloffs, Intrawest, the owner of a dozen ski resorts throughout North America and Europe has announced the sale of Mountain Creek in New Jersey for an undisclosed amount of money.

The Vancouver-based company, owned Mountain Creek since 1998, stated the resort did not fit into the long term corporate strategy.
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Still skiing at cairngorm

The spring weather seems to have been quite eventful in many places on the northern hemisphere including CairnGorm Mountain in the Scottish Highlands, where temperatures reached upwards of 20C slopeside last week.

Snow sports enthusiasts flocked to the high tops in their shorts, t – shirts and kilts to enjoy the unseasonal temperatures out on the ski slopes.

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