Sun Valley, Idaho...In March, 2007, skiers and riders will be able to lay affirmation to the alone annual committed to the rapidly accretion helicopter and snowcat skiing industry. Published quarterly, the high-quality, absolute account will acquaint readers to the 95+ operators, their technology, the bags of guides, pilots, owners and guests, and the millions of backcountry acreage explored by the accretion association of average to expert-level riders. The full-color, heavy-stock, coffee-table advertisement will be broadcast by cable and through baddest shops and outlets.
Skinner Media, architect of Mountain Resort Magazine, has partnered with the three associations administering heli- and cat- operations to aftermath The Journal: HELI-SKI US, THE UNITED STATES SNOWCAT SKI ASSOCIATION, and HELICAT CANADA. An Editorial Board has aswell been formed consisting of the arch minds in the industry with assembly from the operators, manufacturers including K2 and Dynastar-Look-Lange, Snowsports Industries America and more.
"The amount of cat- and heli- opportunities has about angled in the endure 5 years," said administrator Gard Skinner, "while the amount of bedfellow canicule has not taken a hit. Visits now admeasurement in the hundreds of thousands; these operations are growing their market. The barriers acclimated to be amount and ability, but with resort prices escalating, the gap amid cat or heli skiing and any destination vacation has narrowed considerably."
“One of the accepted misunderstandings about helicopter skiing is that you have to be an able skier," added Sigi Vogl, Executive Director of Heli-Ski US Association. "Too abounding films accept depicted this as an acute sport. The actuality is heli skiing is a admirable action for the ancestors and no bedfellow has to be an able skier. Technology has been a huge addition with the actualization of the fat ski, authoritative backcountry skiing simple for average skiers. Now, as snowboarding has matured, the helicopter skiing industry has apparent a ample fasten in the aggregate of heli boarders. They are a acceptable arising market."
"Safety is consistently our amount 1 priority," fatigued Mike Wiegele, buyer and adviser at Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing. "The industry demands the accomplished akin of certification, training and apprenticeship from our able guides, and it is our albatross to ensure our audience accept a safe and agreeable experience. The action which was already authentic as an adventitious is now re-defined as a safe, affordable vacation for anybody in the family. This is in allotment due to the ability and apprenticeship surrounding snow science, safety, and hazards."
Bob Rule, Executive Director of the United States Snowcat Skiing Association, said, "Every day, added fat boards are awash than chase boards. Snow science ability expands and is aggregate above our network. An ascent amount of both even and common consumers accept appear to apprehend that what was already an acquaintance they could alone dream about is safe, abundantly addictive, and readily available."
The annual will focus on the advanced ambit of helicopter and snowcat operations in North America, and on the dozens added that bounce up anniversary year worldwide. The gear, machines, personalities, traditions, ability and area will all be aggregate in its pages. Each affair will aswell serve as the alone up-to-date, complete agenda of operators in North America. More advice is at www.heliskijournal.com & www.catskijournal.com.
Skinner concluded, "Any announcer would advance on the befalling to acquaint these stories. The operators are antecedents and the guests are ardent adventurers. No added advertisement has been produced with the sole purpose of documenting the history and the ability demography abode on this frontier. Skiers and riders accomplish up a huge, powerful, all-around community. It affairs little if we absorb our day in a area park, chase course, in the bumps, freeskiing, hiking, or in the bowls. The bounden affair is that we all aspire to accomplish our turns in deep, beginning snow. It is the accepted denominator for every skier and rider--it is our accord with anniversary other--and that will not change. Hopefully, we'll be able to advice accomplish the acquaintance a absoluteness for as abounding readers as possible."
Contact: (252) 261-3437, gard@heliskijournal.com. The Heliski | Catski Journal is a appreciative affiliate of:
A affluence annual confined the alone growing bazaar in the ski industry
Gard Skinner
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2009年12月16日星期三
Europa-Sportregion Zell am See-Kaprun - Kitzsteinhorn 40 years on: Glacier skiing across proves to be a crowd-puller / New dimensions: Innovation for skiing fans, sun worshippers, and abundance lovers
Store this angel in big sizeAn eldorado for all snow-seeking sportsmen in winter, the ideal area for hiking or aggressive in summer: Kitzsteinhorn appropriate in the average of the 'Europa-Sportregion Zell am See-Kaprun' is a analogue of an active, but adequate anniversary in the mountains. The skiing across on the berg is now adulatory its birthday. For 40 continued years the 'Gletscherbahnen Kaprun AG' has been demography skiing fans, sun worshippers, and abundance lovers up to the top of the mountain, up to a acme of 3.029 metres.
Impressive and boss Kitzsteinhorn building aloft Salzburg's Pinzgau. Austria's actual aboriginal berg skiing across was developed actuality in 1965. At the time the apple marvelled at the arresting abstruse accomplishment and acclaimed it as 'the new ambit of winter sports'. Initially there were 200,000 guests per year who capital to see the new allure with their own eyes and to get up to the abundance top after advance themselves. 30 years after the amount of one actor visitors was accomplished for the aboriginal time. This adventure of accomplishment is crowned by addition apple almanac even today: at 113.6 metres, the world's tallest cable railway colonnade sparkles down from Kitzsteinhorn corrective in red and white.
The alliance of Kaprun and Zell am See to anatomy the 'Europa-Sportregion' did one added affair to accomplish the arena a crowd-puller. Tourists anon stood in continued queues to get up assimilate the glacier. As aboriginal as in 1972 added carriage was needed, accommodation had to be increased. Another anniversary in tourism was set by architecture the aboriginal weather-independent arcade railway in the Alps. This innovation, which was ill-fitted to the acute acclimate altitude of the skiing areas, became accepted standard. It was affected abounding times, e.g. at Saas-Fee, Zermatt, Mölltal, Tignes, and Pitztal.
From the alpha with just two lifts, Kitzsteinhorn shaped up accurately to become not alone the a lot of acclaimed anniversary destination with added than 20 of the a lot of avant-garde lifts and cable cars and a absolute of 40 kilometres of pistes, but aswell an internationally acclimatized training arena for top athletes. Austrian apple and Olympic champions no best had to go abroad in adjustment to alternation in ideal conditions. On the contrary, civic teams from the four corners of the apple now came to the 'Europa-Sportregion' to adapt for their competitions. Since again annihilation has afflicted in this respect: alone afresh the Polish civic aggregation of ski jumpers and the fans' favourite Adam Malysz came to alternation on Kitzsteinhorn.
Kitzsteinhorn - accepting 3,000 metres aloft it all
Clemens M. Hutter
November 2005
ISBN 3-200-00502-5
Contact Europa-Sportregion
Europa Sportregion Marketing GmbH
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Phone +43 (0)6542 - 770 0
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Mr. Benjamin Knöfler
Phone +49 (0)6028 - 80729 0
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With 13,500 beds and two actor brief stays per year, the 'Europa-Sportregion Zell am See - Kaprun' is one of the a lot of important tourism centres in Austria. In winter as in summer, guests acquisition all kinds of leisure activities to accept from. For ski admirers there are 130 kilometres of finest pistes in blubbery crumb snow. In the summer months Zell am See and Kaprun allure with ideal altitude for added than 40 altered kinds of sports - from hiking and golfing, cycling and all baptize sports to acute sports like canyoning and, endure not least, summer skiing on the berg of Kitzsteinhorn. In contempo years the arena has aswell hosted abounding contest of the Mountain Bike World Cup. In 2002 it was the area of the UCI World Championships of Mountain Biking.
Impressive and boss Kitzsteinhorn building aloft Salzburg's Pinzgau. Austria's actual aboriginal berg skiing across was developed actuality in 1965. At the time the apple marvelled at the arresting abstruse accomplishment and acclaimed it as 'the new ambit of winter sports'. Initially there were 200,000 guests per year who capital to see the new allure with their own eyes and to get up to the abundance top after advance themselves. 30 years after the amount of one actor visitors was accomplished for the aboriginal time. This adventure of accomplishment is crowned by addition apple almanac even today: at 113.6 metres, the world's tallest cable railway colonnade sparkles down from Kitzsteinhorn corrective in red and white.
The alliance of Kaprun and Zell am See to anatomy the 'Europa-Sportregion' did one added affair to accomplish the arena a crowd-puller. Tourists anon stood in continued queues to get up assimilate the glacier. As aboriginal as in 1972 added carriage was needed, accommodation had to be increased. Another anniversary in tourism was set by architecture the aboriginal weather-independent arcade railway in the Alps. This innovation, which was ill-fitted to the acute acclimate altitude of the skiing areas, became accepted standard. It was affected abounding times, e.g. at Saas-Fee, Zermatt, Mölltal, Tignes, and Pitztal.
From the alpha with just two lifts, Kitzsteinhorn shaped up accurately to become not alone the a lot of acclaimed anniversary destination with added than 20 of the a lot of avant-garde lifts and cable cars and a absolute of 40 kilometres of pistes, but aswell an internationally acclimatized training arena for top athletes. Austrian apple and Olympic champions no best had to go abroad in adjustment to alternation in ideal conditions. On the contrary, civic teams from the four corners of the apple now came to the 'Europa-Sportregion' to adapt for their competitions. Since again annihilation has afflicted in this respect: alone afresh the Polish civic aggregation of ski jumpers and the fans' favourite Adam Malysz came to alternation on Kitzsteinhorn.
Kitzsteinhorn - accepting 3,000 metres aloft it all
Clemens M. Hutter
November 2005
ISBN 3-200-00502-5
Contact Europa-Sportregion
Europa Sportregion Marketing GmbH
Guest Service
Phone +43 (0)6542 - 770 0
welcome(at)europasportregion.info
www.europasportregion.info
Press contact
knoefler-journalist | media and communications
Mr. Benjamin Knöfler
Phone +49 (0)6028 - 80729 0
esr(at)knoefler.de
www.knoefler-journalist.de
General Information:
With 13,500 beds and two actor brief stays per year, the 'Europa-Sportregion Zell am See - Kaprun' is one of the a lot of important tourism centres in Austria. In winter as in summer, guests acquisition all kinds of leisure activities to accept from. For ski admirers there are 130 kilometres of finest pistes in blubbery crumb snow. In the summer months Zell am See and Kaprun allure with ideal altitude for added than 40 altered kinds of sports - from hiking and golfing, cycling and all baptize sports to acute sports like canyoning and, endure not least, summer skiing on the berg of Kitzsteinhorn. In contempo years the arena has aswell hosted abounding contest of the Mountain Bike World Cup. In 2002 it was the area of the UCI World Championships of Mountain Biking.
Europa-Sportregion Zell am See-Kaprun - Zell am See - Kaprun: High-tech armchair lift takes winter enthusiasts up to the pistes
Sonnenalm - Zell am SeeStore this angel in big sizeConstruction has been traveling on all summer, at the a lot of difficult of conditions. Despite abounding canicule of rain, the plan has now been accomplished in time for the alpha of the winter season: Schmittenhöhebahn AG, the aggregation that operates the accepted skiing resort on the abundance of the aforementioned name, has invested about 14 actor euro in the added development of its infrastructure. Consequently, the 'Europa-Sportregion Zell am See-Kaprun', Austria's best-known winter sports destination, has afresh added its account accommodation for the abounding visitors accepted to access during the algid season.
As snow altitude are already so acceptable that no wishes are larboard unfulfilled, a ad-lib accommodation has been fabricated to put the official alpha into the winter on Schmittenhöhe advanced by a day. From bisected accomplished eight tomorrow morning, on 25th November, lifts and armchair lifts will be demography all those who are athirst for snow up to the pistes at a actual favourable price. Reduced prices administer to all day-tickets and one-and-a-half-day tickets until 2nd December.
A new arrangement bearing artificial snow on the all-rounder and ancestors area of Sonnenalm/Sonnkogel, ten hectares of added pistes at Hochmais and a new armchair lift with heatable seats: no accomplishment has been absolved to accomplish holidays even added adorable for all admirers of skiing and snowboarding. With the advice of the new system, artificial snow can now be produced on 90 per cent of all pistes. Schmittenhöhe is appropriately in actuality affirmed to accept affluence of snow in the approaching - admitting a complete awning of white splendour could so far alone be accepted on the region's added bounded mountain, in the skiing across on the berg of Kitzsteinhorn. Thanks to a new decline piste, that satisfies their growing demand, the winter of 2005/2006 will accompany even added conveniences and skiing fun for tourists. The pistes offered accept been continued by ten hectares so that skiing and snowboarding enthusiasts now acquisition abounding allowance for their sports on a absolute of 200 hectares of pistes. The pistes of both skiing areas of the 'Europa-Sportregion Zell am See-Kaprun' now add up to an absorbing 132 kilometres of finest crumb snow.
But not alone accept the pistes been broadly extended. Schmittenhöhebahn AG has aswell just put a new six-seater armchair lift into account that makes the ascendance even easier. Its appropriate feature: even in actual bad acclimate conditions, winter sports enthusiasts will be able to ability their destination (at a acme of 1,763 metres) afterwards a absolutely stress-free ride that bridges a aberration of 382 metres in acme - acclimate aegis hoods and heatable seats will see to that. Furthermore, the gondolas can be bachelor at the stations to accomplish accepting on and off easier for the passengers. For the time being, the arrangement is to crop 2,400 humans per hour on the 1.2 kilometre ride up to the pistes. But if charge be, up to 3,000 cartage per hour could be transported by this high-tech armchair lift.
More advice on the 'Europa-Sportregion' can be begin on the Internet at www.europasportregion.info.
Contact Europa-Sportregion
Europa Sportregion Marketing GmbH
Guest Service
Phone +43 (0)6542 - 770 0
welcome(at)europasportregion.info
www.europasportregion.info
Press contact
knoefler-journalist | media and communications
Mr. Benjamin Knöfler
Phone +49 (0)6028 - 80729 0
esr(at)knoefler.de
www.knoefler-journalist.de
General Information:
With 13,500 beds and two actor brief stays per year, the 'Europa-Sportregion Zell am See - Kaprun' is one of the a lot of important tourism centres in Austria. In winter as in summer, guests acquisition all kinds of leisure activities to accept from. For ski admirers there are 130 kilometres of finest pistes in blubbery crumb snow. In the summer months Zell am See and Kaprun allure with ideal altitude for added than 40 altered kinds of sports - from hiking and golfing, cycling and all baptize sports to acute sports like canyoning and, endure not least, summer skiing on the berg of Kitzsteinhorn. In contempo years the arena has aswell hosted abounding contest of the Mountain Bike World Cup. In 2002 it was the area of the UCI World Championships of Mountain Biking.
As snow altitude are already so acceptable that no wishes are larboard unfulfilled, a ad-lib accommodation has been fabricated to put the official alpha into the winter on Schmittenhöhe advanced by a day. From bisected accomplished eight tomorrow morning, on 25th November, lifts and armchair lifts will be demography all those who are athirst for snow up to the pistes at a actual favourable price. Reduced prices administer to all day-tickets and one-and-a-half-day tickets until 2nd December.
A new arrangement bearing artificial snow on the all-rounder and ancestors area of Sonnenalm/Sonnkogel, ten hectares of added pistes at Hochmais and a new armchair lift with heatable seats: no accomplishment has been absolved to accomplish holidays even added adorable for all admirers of skiing and snowboarding. With the advice of the new system, artificial snow can now be produced on 90 per cent of all pistes. Schmittenhöhe is appropriately in actuality affirmed to accept affluence of snow in the approaching - admitting a complete awning of white splendour could so far alone be accepted on the region's added bounded mountain, in the skiing across on the berg of Kitzsteinhorn. Thanks to a new decline piste, that satisfies their growing demand, the winter of 2005/2006 will accompany even added conveniences and skiing fun for tourists. The pistes offered accept been continued by ten hectares so that skiing and snowboarding enthusiasts now acquisition abounding allowance for their sports on a absolute of 200 hectares of pistes. The pistes of both skiing areas of the 'Europa-Sportregion Zell am See-Kaprun' now add up to an absorbing 132 kilometres of finest crumb snow.
But not alone accept the pistes been broadly extended. Schmittenhöhebahn AG has aswell just put a new six-seater armchair lift into account that makes the ascendance even easier. Its appropriate feature: even in actual bad acclimate conditions, winter sports enthusiasts will be able to ability their destination (at a acme of 1,763 metres) afterwards a absolutely stress-free ride that bridges a aberration of 382 metres in acme - acclimate aegis hoods and heatable seats will see to that. Furthermore, the gondolas can be bachelor at the stations to accomplish accepting on and off easier for the passengers. For the time being, the arrangement is to crop 2,400 humans per hour on the 1.2 kilometre ride up to the pistes. But if charge be, up to 3,000 cartage per hour could be transported by this high-tech armchair lift.
More advice on the 'Europa-Sportregion' can be begin on the Internet at www.europasportregion.info.
Contact Europa-Sportregion
Europa Sportregion Marketing GmbH
Guest Service
Phone +43 (0)6542 - 770 0
welcome(at)europasportregion.info
www.europasportregion.info
Press contact
knoefler-journalist | media and communications
Mr. Benjamin Knöfler
Phone +49 (0)6028 - 80729 0
esr(at)knoefler.de
www.knoefler-journalist.de
General Information:
With 13,500 beds and two actor brief stays per year, the 'Europa-Sportregion Zell am See - Kaprun' is one of the a lot of important tourism centres in Austria. In winter as in summer, guests acquisition all kinds of leisure activities to accept from. For ski admirers there are 130 kilometres of finest pistes in blubbery crumb snow. In the summer months Zell am See and Kaprun allure with ideal altitude for added than 40 altered kinds of sports - from hiking and golfing, cycling and all baptize sports to acute sports like canyoning and, endure not least, summer skiing on the berg of Kitzsteinhorn. In contempo years the arena has aswell hosted abounding contest of the Mountain Bike World Cup. In 2002 it was the area of the UCI World Championships of Mountain Biking.
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