{"id":122169,"date":"2026-08-29T05:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/122169\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T05:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:16:09","slug":"autumn-is-approaching-in-the-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/122169\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn is Approaching in the Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-date\"> 29th August 2026<\/p>\n<p>The summer heatwaves are over with some light snow falling at high altitude. The glacier ski areas remain closed, but thoughts are turning to winter. NEW<\/p>\n<p>The past week has seen up to 10cm of fresh snow with sub-freezing temperatures on the glaciers.<\/p>\n<p>This summer has seen the freezing level above 4,000m for extended periods with all the glacier ski areas remaining closed for the first time in six decades:<\/p>\n<p>It has been a poor summer for skiing in the Alps, and it is questionable how many years of the activity remain.<\/p>\n<p>All the summer glacier ski areas that should be open at this time of year remain closed:<\/p>\n<p>Zermatt\/CerviniaSaas-FeeVal Senales<\/p>\n<p>In Norway Gladh\u00f8piggen, Scandinavia\u2019s only summer ski area, also remains shut though a reopening is expected later in September.<\/p>\n<p>Now, our thoughts at PlanetSKI are turning to winter, though there is still a long way to go.<\/p>\n<p>In North America Loveland in Colorado has posted that it expects to start snow making in less than 40-days.<\/p>\n<p>Vail Resorts has just announced the opening dates for its ski areas:<\/p>\n<p>Winter may still be a long way off, but it is on its way.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the current state of play in the southern hemisphere:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44700\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSCN8237-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Cerro Catedral, Argentina\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-44700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Andes. Image \u00a9 PlanetSKI<\/p>\n<p>PlanetSKI: Number 1 for digital ski news<\/p>\n<p>Your digital platform for ski news, resort information, travel, equipment rental, sport, money saving deals and everything connected with snowsports \u2013 web site, social media &amp; more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787980569_40_planetski-logo-300x300-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-53479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787980569_40_planetski-logo-300x300-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"29th August 2026 The summer heatwaves are over with some light snow falling at high altitude. The glacier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-122169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alps","tag-alps"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117177102628334368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}