Well, the ski season has well and truly opened, with Zermatt, Saas-Fee, Davos-Klosters, Flims/Laax, Verbier, St Moritz and even low-lying Gstaad open, if only partially. Locals say this is the heaviest November dump in living memory, and the snow conditions are so good that even some resort runs are open, e.g. Verbier. Of course, the avalanche risk is also high and in some areas the snow cover hasn’t formed a good base over the rocks and meadows below, but it is a promising start. My wife is down in Sierre and Sion home-hunting today, within site of working lifts… and I am in the Netherlands being an ice hockey dad! Oh well, not long before I will be donning skis and hitting the piste.
New Alpine Superpass for Vaud and Bern
A new pass is on offer this season, covering the major resorts in the Bernese Oberland and Vaud. The Superpass allows you to ski Gstaad Mountain Rides, Adelboden-Lenk and the Alpes Vaudois (which includes Leysin, Villars and Les Diablerets). That’s 188 lifts and 630km of piste, and includes runs as high as 3000m at Glacier3000 (and, incidentally, Glacier3000 has opened up a new walkway between a couple of peaks for a spectacular panorama view from this season). The prices are as follows:
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Consecutive days
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Full-price for Adults
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Youths (1991-1998)
& Seniors (m: 1949, f: 1950) |
Children (1999-2005)
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| 4 | CHF 242.- | CHF 219.- | CHF 143.- |
| 5 | CHF 290.- | CHF 262.- | CHF 173.- |
| 6 | CHF 333.- | CHF 301.- | CHF 202.- |
| 7 | CHF 377.- | CHF 341.- | CHF 228.- |
| 8 | CHF 421.- | CHF 380.- | CHF 252.- |
| 9 | CHF 456.- | CHF 413.- | CHF 274.- |
| 10 | CHF 488.- | CHF 441.- | CHF 294.- |
| 11 | CHF 517.- | CHF 467.- | CHF 311.- |
| 12 | CHF 542.- | CHF 489.- | CHF 327.- |
| 13 | CHF 565.- | CHF 510.- | CHF 341.- |
| 14 | CHF 585.- | CHF 528.- | CHF 354.- |
| 15 | CHF 605.- | CHF 546.- | CHF 365.- |
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The Birdman Flies No Longer
Alpine Sports always carry an element of risk, none more so than base jumping, where people throw themselves off the tops of mountains and other high altitude platforms wearing an outfit called a wingsuit. This week that risk was brought to the home of Alpinism.
Ramón Rojas, known as the Birdman for his daring base jumps, has died while flying using a wingsuit in the Jungfrau.
Ramon was a 35 year old Chilean-born professional base jumper who only last month broke the world record for the highest base jump in history, from 4100m in Cerro El Plomo, Chile.
Apparently he was in training in strong winds for a competition in Lauterbrunnen when he died.
A Facebook page has been set up called “Ramon Rojas memorial to celebrate his awesome life”. His sister, Paula Rojas, writes: “My heart is broken but it gives me peace to know that my brother was happy doing what he loved so passionately. He was happy and will carry on smiling from where he is, with the rest of the birds.”