Bansko ski

The snowboard lovers can enjoy the first on the Balkans fun park where people from all over the world are lead by the passion of the extreme. They can build jumps suiting their taste and abilities.
Every day skiers and snowboarders can take part in the competitions on the new piste on Shiligarnika.
The lifts and pistes operator in Bansko takes care for the maximum comfort of the skier and snowboarders with the exclusive 8-seats Gondola cable car by Dopplemayer, five 4- seat lifts of the latest Doppelmayer models, one 3-seat lift by Poma, 7 drags and 10 baby drags. The total length of the wire equipment in the resort is 26 kilometers. All ski equipment can be used by one chip-card from SkiData.
Huge monitors showing pictures from the different pistes is based on the starting station of the Gondola. Thus people will have more information of the wind and temperature conditions before climbing up on the slope.
Slalom and Giant slalom runs are available. Bansko offers a cross-country track with a total length of 5 km. A 3 km ski run Rollbahn track is situated 2 km far from the town.

Bulgaria Records Below-Zero Temperatures

The mild weather in Bulgaria, at the end of October and the beginning of November will come to an end this week, which will set in with temperatures

below zero and snowfalls, forecasts say.
The lowest temperatures - between 5-7C below zero - will be recorded in Northeastern Bulgaria and in the plains at higher altitudes.
The week will bring scattered rain showers in Northern Bulgaria that will turn to snowfalls.
Highs are set at between 3 and 8C and are expected to start to rise at the end of the week.

Bansko Expects a Million Tourists over This Season

"It is highly probable that as many as one million tourists will visit Bansko this winter," tour-operators forecast. There are 15 000 hotel beds in the resort now, and there will be twice as many as soon as hotels and apartment buildings that are currently under construction are completed. "I see no problem accomodating all the guests of the resort. I guarantee there will be neither water supply restrictions nor outages. We've set aside 25 million levs (1 Euro = 1.95 levs) of municipal money to develop the infrastructure," Bansko Mayor Alexander Kravarov said.

Since the beginning of the construction boom in Bansko the investments in local hotels and apartment buildings has already exceeded one billion Euros.