Sierra Nevada has a fantastic new website, which features a mini snow report, offering real-time information on the area: air temperature and weather, amount of runs and lifts open, snow conditions including depth, and length of pistes in km; in addition there are individual temperatures for each of the areas currently open, plus predictions for the following days, in terms of weather and which runs and lifts will be open.
Unfortunately the 2006/2007 ski season was rather dissappointing due to the drought that was affecting southern Spain at the time. When the slopes were finally open for skiing on December 2, the area available for skiiers measured only 2 kilometres in total length. Compare that with the previous year which opened with 11 kilometres in ski runs.
We have great news this 2007/2008 ski season on the Sierra Nevada slopes!
The company that runs the ski station, Cetursa, has invested a whopping 17.35 million euros to improve the facilities at Sierra Nevada this year. Most of the money was allocated to build a new cablecare for the Borreguiles area, and that will be able to handle 3,200 passengers per hour. With this new cablecare up and running it only takes seven minutes to travel between the main ski resort at Pradollano to Borreguiles. That nifty project cost more than 15 million euros.
Last year we reported on the tremendous investments taking place in Sierra Nevada to renovate the ski stations, the lifts, the parking areas and even the hospitality business. This year the positive changes will be felt as work has finished on many important projects.
The 2008/2009 Ski season was one of the best in history with more than 1 million skiers enjoying the slopes. The previous year barely reached 750,000 skiers, but thanks to amazing snow conditions from the start to finish of this past season, Andalucia's premium ski facilities closed on a very good note this time around.
A bigger and better snowpark: the renamed Superpark Sulayr de Montebajo has moved from its previous location in Borreguiles, to a new, larger site in Loma de Dilar. The new superpark occupies a more extensive area, offering a greater variety of more challenging obstacles, including jumps, boxes, rails and half-pipes. Because of the larger area of terrain, these new features are more spaced out, giving snowboarders and freestyle skiers plenty of room to practise their favourite tricks.
The main event for this season is the Junior Snowboard World Championship, which takes place on 23-31 March 2012. For more, see our Events page.
The main event for this season is the Freestyle and Snowboard World Cup Superfinal, which takes place on 18-26 March 2013. This is held at the Sulayr Superpark, which features the biggest permanent half-pipe in Spain, as well as in Loma de Dilar and Borreguiles.
This season, the exciting additions to the Sierra Nevada’s fantastic facilities include the longest line of freestylers’ jumps and obstacles in Europe, a new children’s area, and new lifts and runs in the beginners’ area.
The Sierra Nevada is a popular holiday destination in Andalucia. It offers spactacular views, numerous tourist attractions and a variety of activities for both youngsters and adults to enjoy.