Reports from China, where the focus is on in imminent Winter Olympics and Paralympics around capital Beijing, indicate that a new “world’s largest indoor snow centre”, including an indoor Olympic standard ski run, will be completed in the country’s second city, Shanghai, before the end of 2022. Now known as WintaStar Shanghai, the spectacular project was first unveiled as Winterland Shanghai in 2015 with a price tag of 13.5 billion yuan ($2.1 billion). Located in the coastal Lingang area it is currently being billed as “the world's largest integrated indoor ski resort.” This follows claims at its launch announcement that it would contain, ”the world's longest indoor ski trail.” (Original image from 2015 announcement) The detailed stats on the snow

Ski areas in Japan are posting the world’s deepest bases at present and some have already had over 10 metres (33 feet) of snowfall in the 21-22 ski season. SnowJapan.com reports that Kiroro has gone through the 10 metre/33 feet seasonal-snowfall-to-date stat over the past week and is posting the world’s deepest snowpack for a leading ski area with the snow lying 4.7m (over 14 feet) thick at the top of the runs.  Geto Kogen (255/400cm) has also just passed the 10-metre seasonal snowfall to date total (it’s on 1111cm, in fact). Due to the spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, Japan closed its borders to all new foreign arrivals again from November 30, 2021 until at least

A survey of over 2,000 snowsports enthusiasts carried out on behalf of snowsports retailer Snow+Rock has revealed that more than a third (38 percent) have missed the benefits of snowsports to their mental health. 81 percent of respondents said they have missed the mountains more than a summer holiday and 94 percent say the pandemic has made them appreciate a winter sports holiday more. Mountain views and “the feeling of being alive on the slopes” topped the moments they most wished for. "We know that snowsports enthusiasts have pined for the positive impact of being on the slopes and that the current uncertainty is concerning, especially now that restrictions and cancellations are starting to impact holidays. We are all united

Issued: 26 January 2022 By Patrick "Snowhunter" Thorne European Roundup North American Roundup Asia Roundup WORLD OVERVIEW Bjorli earlier in the week There has been a welcome return of snowfall to the Alps after a few weeks of sunshine with snow falling through the weekend at many resorts giving powder conditions to start the week.  Other regions reporting decent dumps included parts of Scandinavia with big falls at last in western Norway as well as some parts of Sweden although across the North Sea Scottish hills remain brown. Down in southern Europe, it remained sunny in the Dolomites too although further east there was more snowfall in Bulgaria. In North America, it has been a largely dry week for much of

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