Breckenridge in Colorado, USA, which is home to some of North America’s highest terrain and one of the world’s highest chairlifts has confirmed it plans to keep its slopes open through to Monday, May 31st, America’s Memorial Day public holiday. Late season skiing and riding is based out of the resort’s Peak 8 from April 19th, and terrain is primarily for intermediate-, advanced- and expert-levels. Continued operations will be as weather and conditions permit. The Colorado Rockies have had below average snowfall this winter but ‘Breck’ marketing staff say the resort is often blessed with plentiful snowfall and excellent spring snow conditions. The resort now has one of the longest-running ski seasons of any major resort in North America after

Ischgl – which last season was at the heart of accusation of being a hub for virus spread during the first wave of the pandemic, and remains the subject of a class action legal case as a result of that – has announced it won’t now be opening at all for the 20-21 ski season. The resort normally has one of the longest ski seasons in the Alps, from late November to early May, but has found it impossible to open this season even though Austrian areas had been able to open to locals from Christmas Eve. One complication the resort faced was its cross-border ski area linked to Samnaun in Switzerland, with border crossings officially restricted. Open on the

Issued: 03 March 2021 By Patrick "Snowhunter" Thorne European Roundup North American Roundup Asia Roundup EUROPE INTRODUCTION It is the start of March and after nearly a fortnight of predominantly springlike, sunny, warm weather across Europe it is now actually springtime *according to the meteorological measure). So the overnight freezing followed by daytime thawing of the snowpack seems more normal and less earlier than usual.  The past week has been much the same as the one before in Europe, mostly warm and sunny for most ski areas. But temperatures have cooled a little and there was a thin band of snowfall in the Alps at the start of the weekend.  Most areas are dry again now but it looks like the weather will

Last Updated 3 March 2021 at 19.10 GMT (Updates so far since commenced on 5 May 2020: 548 The web's most comprehensive guide of ski resorts opening around the world during the pandemic. An estimated 3000+ Ski Areas Are Currently Open Worldwide in at least 40 Countries on 3 Continents including: Asia: Azerbaijan, China, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, South Korea, Turkey. Europe: Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Iceland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine. North America: Canada (except Ontario), USA Ski areas in Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mongolia, Morocco, Portugal, Scotland and the Slovak Republic want to open but governments in

New Zealand, the only country where skiing and snowboarding could continue fairly normally last winter after their successful suppression of the virus, will have some new lift-accessed terrain for winter 2021. Cardrona Alpine Resort has announced that lift-accessed skiing and snowboarding in their Soho ski area will become a reality later this year with the opening of the Willows Quad chairlift, currently under construction at Cardrona Alpine Resort and due to be completed in time for the winter season. In 2018, Cardrona announced the acquisition of the ski area rights for Soho, the terrain that sits on the reverse face of Mt Cardrona, overlooking the Whakatipu Basin and the Southern Alps. Willows Basin is the first area to be unlocked