{"id":13718,"date":"2009-06-03T11:39:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13718"},"modified":"2009-06-03T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T18:57:04","slug":"snowboard-skiing-new-zealands-mt-ruapehu-confirms-ski-season-debut-two-weeks-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13718","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard Skiing &#8211; New Zealand&#8217;s Mt. Ruapehu Confirms Ski Season Debut Two Weeks Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Okahune, New Zealand &#8211; Ruapehu Alpine Lifts, operator of Turoa and Whakapapa ski areas on New Zealand&#8217;s Mt. Ruapehu, has confirmed it will be opening Turoa&#8217;s Alpine Meadow beginners\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 area this Saturday, two weeks earlier than planned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Good snowmaking weather following last weekend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s snowfall has enabled the earliest opening in Turoa&#8217;s history. Turoa will open further upper mountain lifts as scheduled on June 20th, including the High Noon Express, when top-to-bottom skiing is expected. Whakapapa is on schedule to open on June 27th.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mike Smith, Mt. Ruapehu marketing manager, says it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a rarity for the upper mountain to open this early&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firsttracksonline.com\/News\/2009\/6\/3\/New-Zealands-Mt-Ruapehu-Confirms-Ski-Season-Debut-Two-Weeks-Early\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okahune, New Zealand &#8211; Ruapehu Alpine Lifts, operator of Turoa and Whakapapa ski areas on New Zealand&#8217;s Mt. Ruapehu, has confirmed it will be opening Turoa&#8217;s Alpine Meadow beginners\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 area this Saturday, two weeks earlier than planned. Good snowmaking weather following last weekend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s snowfall has enabled the earliest opening in Turoa&#8217;s history. Turoa will open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13728,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718\/revisions\/13728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}