2nd October 2024
Ruka and Levi in Finland open some slopes this week utilizing saved snow. One other glacier resort in Austria opens on Thursday. NEW
Ruka first started utilizing snow preserved from the earlier winter in 2016.
The resort created a number of giant piles of snow on the finish of the season that have been then coated with a tarpaulin and sawdust to guard the snow over the summer season.
Piste bashers are then used to unfold the snow over the slopes and trails within the autumn.
Ruka is now in a position to supply round 200 days of snowboarding per season.
Levi did the identical so there might be sufficient snow to host the Levi World Cup races – the primary slalom races of the season.
This 12 months it takes place on sixteenth – seventeenth November with each women and men competing.
In Norway the Galdhøpiggen glacier is open, however it solely operates for a couple of weeks in the summertime.
Within the Alps Kaunertal in Austria opens on Thursday third October.
It joins a lot of resorts within the Alps which can be presently open:
Hintertux, AustriaPitztal, AustriaStubai, AustriaSoelden, AustriaVal Senales, Italy,Passo Stelvio, ItalySaas-Price, SwitzerlandZermatt, Switzerland
In Val Senales snowboarding is just for race staff coaching and never most of the people.
We have now been reporting on ski areas opening previously few weeks following the massive snow falls on September:
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