twenty first November 2024
It’s our first journey of the season and we couldn’t have timed it higher. Recent snow has fallen & the temperatures have dropped. We’re heading to Obergurgl this weekend for World Cup ski racing. NEW
This week has seen the primary foremost storm of the approaching winter.
Over 1m has fallen in elements of the northern and western Alps, with much less in western Austria the place Obergurgl is located.
The chilly temperatures have allowed snow-making to happen.
We’ve got reported on the snow right here on PlanetSKI:
Obergurgl, or Gurgl as the realm is now referred to as, has been open since final week and extra terrain has opened with the chilly temperatures this week.
PlanetSKI is primarily in resort for the women and men World Cup slalom races that happen on Saturday and Sunday.
It’s the primary time the ladies have raced within the resort, whereas within the males’s inaugural race final yr GB’s Dave Ryding was in fourth place – simply lacking out on a podium place.
Ryding is sponsored by Gurgl they usually put The Rocket on the race poster:
Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) will likely be in search of her 99th World Cup triumph, hotly pursued by the likes of Katharina Liensberger (AUT) and Lena Duerr (GER).
The lads in the meantime made their Gurgl debut final season.
Frenchman Clement Noel was victorious in final week’s slalom in Levi and at the moment leads the standings.
In the meantime, Lucas Braathen, now representing Brazil, is poised to make historical past as he strives for his first podium end after his return.
We reported on the races in Levi, Finland, final weekend:
Subsequent cease ➡️ Gurgl 🇦🇹#fisalpine #worldcupgurgl #skiverrückt pic.twitter.com/L7JTVRjZHK
— FIS Alpine (@fisalpine) November 20, 2024
That is the primary journey of the 24/25 season for PlanetSKI’s editor, James Cove.
“I’ve been ready for this second for the reason that finish of April once I put away my skis, and it has been a pleasure packing the gear and looking out ahead to the weekend forward,” mentioned James.
Packing for snowboarding. Picture © PlanetSKI
James has an enormous winter deliberate for PlanetSKI and he’ll be snowboarding in Switzerland (Verbier and Crans-Montana, Villars) forward of Xmas.
Then over the New Yr he’s off on a street journey spherical a couple of resorts in France (Les Arcs, La Plagne, La Clusaz, Tignes/Val D’Isere, St Foy and and certain some others.
Subsequent it’s Japan for six weeks in January snowboarding all variety of resorts.
Do look out for reviews on his prolonged keep within the nation that’s No 1 on most individuals’s bucket listing.
PlanetSKI’s staff of reporters will likely be criss-crossing the Alps, the Pyrenees and Scandinavia reporting on the winter, as James is within the powder of Japan.
However now PlanetSKI is concentrated on Gurgl in Austria with a weekend of snowboarding and a few World Cup racing motion thrown in.
Do verify again…
