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Finnish ski resort is offering a free day of skiing on May 8th, 2011.
The leading Finnish ski resort of Levi has announced plans to offer free skiing at the end of its very long season – in May 2011. Continue reading ‘Finnish ski resort to offer free skiing next May’
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24 hour event coming to Bad Geistein
Austria’s Gastein ski region will take the growing trend of 24 hour ski racing to a new level in February with the launch of a new of piste race on the Graukogel, which it dubs, Gastein‘s touring mountain.
The race, scheduled for February 27th and 28th, is open to singles as well as teams of men and women, it is also open to amateurs as well as experienced racers.
At the Gasteiner 24 hour tour ski race it’s not just a matter of overcoming a particular course in the shortest time, but to win you need to clock up as many vertical metres as possible too,
said a race organizer.
Competitors can enter in one of several categories including singles, mens team and womens teams. The winners receive the Gasteiner “Tourenteufel” (touring devil) award.
www.gastein24.at
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Telluride to expand with new chutes this coming season
When the snow officially sets in for the 2009-10 season, Telluride in Colorado will be expanding it’s terrain with the addition of Gold Hill Chutes 2-5. Local revelers to the ski hill were widely expecting this new expert skiing zone since the opening of Gold Hill Chutes 6-10 opened in 2007-08 and the original Chute 1 in 2008-09.
Chutes 2-5 offer wide-open, above treeline couloirs and chutes dropping 500 vertical metres (1,600 vertical feet).
The resort added two WWII-era howitzers last season to facilitate control of this terrain, which will open as conditions allow.
Terrain expansion is just part of ongoing improvements at Telluride. In the last five years the resort opened Revelation Bowl and the newly built Revelation Lift.
Other developments include two new restaurants, restaurant upgrades, new snowmaking and snow cats, new hike to terrain and the addition of new sun decks. Not only is the town going to be famous for its film festival, but now skiing just got a whole lot better!
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New Torre di Pisa run promises to challenge all skiers this winter
The Ski Center Latemar in the Val di Fiemme/Obereggen district of the Italian Dolomites is one of the few in the world to be debuting a new piste this season.
The new “Torre di Pisa” is described as a technical run and will provide an alternative route down to the existing “5 Nazioni“ slope in the Passo Feudo/Predazzo sector.
The run is 1,550m long and has a vertical drop of 460m with gradients of up to 59%.
The new run is served by the “Gardonè/Passo Feudo“ high speed quad chairlift and the area is included on the Dolomiti Supereski pass.
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St Anton will open on 27th November and the famous Austrian resort has launched a VIP-competition to give entrants the chance to win pole position and carve the first line of the new season with ski legend Karl Schranz.
On the morning of the 27th the lucky winner will ride the Galzigbahn to the top with a glass of champagne and canapés to hand before becoming the first skier to ski the piste and officially open the season to all. The prize also includes two nights in a four star hotel and two lift passes.
The resort’s celebrations will include a party kicking off 8.45am, a spectacular ski show by the Arlberg Ski School and the chance to try out the hottest new trends for free during three days of testing for the new season’s ski, snowboard and Telemark equipment.
Enter online at www.stanton-ski-open.com
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