It might not really feel prefer it but, however with the summer time solstice now behind us, it signifies that it signifies that that annoying a part of the yr for skiers when winter is getting additional away is over and mom nature has now formally warned us that the rundown to subsequent winter and the 26-27 ski season is underway!
The summer time solstice additionally marks the top of the 2026 season at Riksgransen (pictured), which has been providing its trademark snowboarding underneath the midnight solar for the previous six weeks throughout its 24 hour daylight up within the Arctic Circle.
Riksgransen in June
After all, it’s exhausting to know when one season ends and one other begins, as a result of some resorts like Les 2 Alpes in France, Hintertux in Austria and Timberline in Oregon have been working since final autumn 2025 and are nonetheless open for snowboarding and boarding at present. Only one space is left the place you may, climate allowing, ski yr spherical – Switzerland’s Zermatt. Plus there at the moment are greater than 100 indoor snow centres the place you may ski any and each day, now unfold throughout greater than 30 international locations on six continents – far more selection than the diminishing variety of summer time glacier ski areas.
Celebrating Juneteenth on the slopes at Timberline Oregon
You may as well chase the ski season around the globe – it’s simply getting began within the southern hemisphere for 2026 in Lesotho, Southern Africa, the Andes of South America and down in Australia and New Zealand.
However one resort that clearly ended its 25-26 season final April and opens for summer time snowboarding, which then morphs into autumn snowboarding after which its full winter season opens for its 26-27 season in July is Switzerland’s Saas-Price. Maybe it has an argument that it’s first to open for the northern hemisphere’s subsequent season after the summer time solstice?
It’s summer time snowboarding takes place on the Allalin glacier from July 18, 2026. The summer time operations run each day by means of the hotter months, initially from 7am to midday, however with carry occasions shifting to start out and finish later within the day because the yr progresses and temperatures begin to fall within the autumn.
