The cold front of the last few days has brought enough snow to open all the Aragonese ski resorts. The list is completed this Monday with Panticosa, which had not yet been able to launch the 2023-2024 season, as confirmed by Aramón’s club. At the same time, Everyone is working to expand their ski area, waiting for another storm to arrive this week with more snow.
More than half a meter of snow has fallen since Thursday night, although bad weather caused wind problems on Sunday. The strong gusts forced the closure of the Formigal slopes and affected the opening of the ski lifts in Cerler. At this station in the Benasque Valley, 110 kilometers per hour were measured.
In addition to the expansion of the ski area, the precipitation of the last three days was recorded above all in the height of the snow cover, which in the case of Astún and Candanchú They already reach 100 centimeters and in Valdelinares they reach 60 cm.
The positions deployed all their artillery to make the most of the recent snowfall and the potential of the cannons. Road pavers work intensively at night to prepare the routes and the cannons They took advantage of the humid conditions and the sharp drop in temperatures. The minimum recorded in the Community was on Sunday -11.6 degrees, measured at the Cerler stationwhile that of Astún reached -10.8.
Snow clearing work at Astún station.Astún Another machine at work in Candanchú station after the recent snowfalls.Candanchú
The reactivation of the season is allowing it incorporate more workers and call in terminated permanent employees who had not yet joined this season, to prepare the new routes. Stepping machines come out in Formigal on two shifts, afternoon and night, in operation from 5pm until the morning for the treatment of natural and artificial snow.
“We will continue to work to expand the domain, given that temperatures are dropping and we are producing snow. It looks like it will snow again on Wednesday”, indicated sources from the Aramón company, which after the partial opening of Formigal in recent weeks, starting today The Panticosa sector opens, the only one that had not been liberated. Even the Estrimal slope that goes down to the town was starting to snow.
In the Aragon valley, the 100 K Astún-Candanchú ski area has announced that more slopes will be added in the coming days to take advantage of the fallen snow, “more than half a meter in the last 72 hours.” According to the general director of Candanchú, Álvaro Luna, the reactivation of the season will allow us to increase the staff. “Two train drivers have joined today (yesterday) and more staff are being hired.” “We launched all the artillery,” Andrés Pita, deputy director general of Astún, graphically underlined.
Nordic ski centers, most of which are closed, also benefited from the snowfall. At the weekend only the Llanos del Hospital space, in Benasque, was operational, with 6 km and 40-70 cm thickness, but He will now be joined by Linza (Ansó), with 7.5 km and 40 centimetres; and the Panticosa Baths, with 6 km and 40-70 cm. The first is also extended to 10 km, explained Mario García, president of the Association of Nordic Spaces of Aragon.
2024-01-08 04:00:00
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