{"id":1722,"date":"2014-10-23T21:17:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T19:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2014-10-23T21:21:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T19:21:29","slug":"murren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/berneseoberland\/murren\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00fcrren upgrades its facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/murren_piste.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\" alt=\"Murren piste map\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><br \/>\nMany Swiss resorts have been busy trying to up their appeal for winter tourists. Car-free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/murren.php\" title=\"Murren ski resort\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00fcrren<\/a> is one of the most distinguished of the winter sports destinations, and the Inferno run down to Lauterbrunnen is the oldest ski race in the world. It generally gives a feel of timelessness, broken only by its brief and famous hosting of the filming of the James Bond movie, OHMSS (where it played as a stand-in for St Moritz).<\/p>\n<p>However M\u00fcrren seems to have been busy this summer improving the facilities for skiers and snowboarders.  There is a new snowpark at the Gimmeln ski lift, upgraded lifts for both Gimmeln and Allmendhubel and a new toboggan run from Schiltgrat Station via Gimmeln back to M\u00fcrren.<\/p>\n<p>I am a great fan of early morning snow, to hit the pistes before the runs are fully open and the corduroy slopes are pristine. You can do this at Corviglia and a few other places, and now you can do it in M\u00fcrren.  M\u00fcrren Snow Sports School, for Chf35.00, allows early birds to explore the resort every Wednesday from 7.30am. It&#8217;s on my list!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Swiss resorts have been busy trying to up their appeal for winter tourists. Car-free M\u00fcrren is one of the most distinguished of the winter sports destinations, and the Inferno run down to Lauterbrunnen is the oldest ski race in the world. It generally gives a feel of timelessness, broken only by its brief and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/berneseoberland\/murren\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;M\u00fcrren upgrades its facilities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[129,106,187,37,74,38,23,113,158],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-berneseoberland","tag-corviglia","tag-lauterbrunnen","tag-pistes","tag-ski","tag-ski-resort","tag-snowboard","tag-st-moritz","tag-swiss","tag-winter-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}