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Blackcomb Mountain, June 15, 2010 - After a record breaking

After a record breaking year of snowfall, glacier skiing and riding returns on Blackcomb’s Horstman Glacier this Saturday June 19th with some of the best summer skiing and riding conditions in years.

“It’s looking like an amazing start to the summer season,” says Adam Francis, Whistler Blackcomb’s Summer Glacier Operations Supervisor.

Coronet Peaks, Queenstown, June 14, 2010 - Excitment is snowballing at Coronet Peak

Excitement is snowballing at Coronet Peak as the ski area gears up towards the 36th Queenstown Winter Festival which starts on Friday June 25.

As the mountain home to the American Express Queenstown Winter Festival, Coronet Peak will once again host festival favourites including mountain bikes on snow and the Speight’s Dog Derby.

Ski Area Manager Hamish McCrostie says staff are, as always, really looking forward to the festival and its unique

Italy, June 14, 2010 - Three glacier ski areas

Three glacier ski areas are now open in Italy following the re-opening of Val Senales at the weekend.  It joins Passo Stelvio and the Presena glacier above Passo Tonale, which had one red and one black run open at the weekend but it likely to close in the near future.  However Cervinia will re-open a week on Saturday for summer skiing and boarding keeping the Italian choices up at three.

Val Senales,

Dachstein Glacier, Austria, June 14, 2010 - The Dachstein Glacier in southern Austria

The Dachstein glacier in southern Austria has re-opened for summer skiing this weekend, two weeks later than planned.  A technical issue following the replacement of the steel cable, for the first time since the lift was installed in 1969, on the Dachstein access cable car led to the postponed opening.

Australia, June 14, 2010 - Fresh Snow across Australia's

Fresh snow across Australia’s ski areas helped get the season off to a positive start at the weekend when the country’s resorts began opening for winter 2010.  Temperatures have been low for the best part of a month allowing for plenty of pre-season snowfall and with 10-15cm (4-6 inches) of natural snowfall just before the resorts were scheduled to open, it’s been a very good start to the season.

France, June 14, 2010 - Les 2 Alpes will be the first

Les 2 Alpes will be the first of France’s three ski areas that still offer summer glacier skiing and boarding to open, this Wednesday, June 16th.

The lists open from 7.15am daily until the 28th August, the resorts there is 2.4m (eight feet) of snow lying on the glacier.

The resort’s summer ski area, one of Europe’s largest, covers 200 hectares and has eight runs and a large snow park complete with two half pipes and a superpipe located&n

Cairngorm, Scotland, June 14, 2010 - Cairngorm Mountain above Aviemore

Cairngorm Mountain above Aviemore in Scotland has finally decided to call it a day on their 2009-10 ski season after opening in June for the first time in 18 years.

Although final figures are yet to be published, it appears winter 2009-10 will have been one of the area’s most successful for 20 years, with the lifts operating on around 150 days during the past eight months.

The only days th

Mount Washington, Canada, June 14, 2010 - Mount Washington was top

Mount Washington was top of the world snowfall table for most of last winter with over 6 metres (20 feet) lying and the resort, which was the main pre-Olympics training base for international teams immediately before the Winter games in February, had over 15m (approximately 50 feet) of snow through the season.   

It is now trying to clear snow that’s still lying deep on the higher mountai

Valle Nevado, Chile, June 14, 2010 - Chile's Valle Nevado opens for it's

Chile’s Valle Nevado opens for its 2010 ski season this week with two new lifts allowing the creation of five new intermediate and advanced difficulty slopes including blue, red and black runs.

One of the ski-lifts is a double chairlift that is located in the Ballicas sector,  the other a T-bar lift that  climb to the highest part of the mountain in the Valle del Inca area, opening slopes of in

Treble Cone, New Zealand, June 14, 2010 - The Snow continues to fall

The snow continues to fall. Queens Birthday weekend delivered another 35cm of snow across the mountain and was followed by pretty consistent cold temps allowing for some good snow making. And then two days ago (Saturday) – Powder day 12cm in car park still snowing lightly, cold -3C,  snow down to 3rd corner..