March Snow Blankets World’s Leading Ski Areas
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
We may be entering the last month of operations for many leading snow resorts, but the snow is still falling thickly at many ski centres in Europe and North America.
Current Paralympics host Whistler is continuing its record breaking 2009-10 season with another metre of snow in the past week. It still has at least three months of the season to run, thanks to its high altitude glacier skiing.
Mammoth Mountain in California to the south has just passed the 10m/400 inches of snow season-to-date total fall, it ias another likely to be skiing well in to June.
There’s been at least 20cm (eight inches) of snow reported overnight by hundreds of ski areas across Europe too, with resorts in Austria leading the way with up to 60cm (two feet) of new snow falling.
Norwegian resorts are in second place for fresh-snow-by-volume with up to 45cm (18 inches) of snow reported overnight, and Swiss resorts have reported up to a foot (30cm),
One oif the big beneficiaries is Laax, host to the Brits ski and music festival in less than a week’s time, which has had 29cm of new snow today. It is already a good bid choice for Spring skiing as 90% of its ski slopes are at a snowsure altitude even in April.
In France the snow conditions were excellent and it snowed a lot at the beginning of last week especially in the Pyrenees.
“The snow conditions are very good for the end of the season.†said a spokeswoman for snow reporting agency www.skiinfo.co.uk .
