14 May, 2020 @ 18:02
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SNOW ESCAPE: Spain’s Sierra Nevada ski resort pledges €1.8m to bounce back from coronavirus lockdown

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FROM the ashes of the coronavirus-wrecked ski season, the Sierra Nevada resort in Spain is planning to rise again with new state of the art equipment.

Public company Cetursa Sierra Nevada has revealed it has placed a €1.8 million order for 100 new snow cannons, which will help ensure ideal skiing conditions even in marginal temperatures.

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INVESTMENT: €1.8 million to ensure good skiing conditions.

On top of this, the company has pledged to invest more of its own cash – without asking taxpayers to dip into their own pockets – to make sure the skiing sector in the Andalucian mountains recovers fully next season.

The new equipment will replace 43 aging cannons which date back nearly 20 years, while other older gear will be moved to higher slopes.

Italian company TechnoAlpin will supply 19 TR10 guns (15 fixed and four mobile) and 81 of the fixed TL6 series.

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MODERN: The cannon replace aging equipment.

They will be used to reinforce the artificial snow system along  the spine of the resort, from the main chairlift station (3,000 metres) to Pradollano (2,100 metres) and the beginners’ area of Borreguiles.

Centursa says the system is much more energy efficient and low on water consumption.

The new additions will mean the resort will have more than 300 snow cannons, with 90% of them automatic.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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