Ski Resort Kanin Opens Summer Season
Kanin, Slovenia's highest-lying ski resort, kicked-off last weekend its summer season by starting its cable car to transport mountaineers and other nature enthusiasts.
The ski resort is expecting between 10 and 15% more visitors than last summer, when it attracted 13,000 mountaineers, the director of the company operating the ski resort has told STA.
According to Ursic, the summer season opened a month after the close of the winter season, which attracted more than 50,000 skiers to the ski resort, the largest number in the past 15 years.
Indeed, summers bring about a fifth of all visitors to the mountain in NE Slovenia which peaks at nearly 2,600 metres, Ursic said.
The 6-km-long cable car, which was completely renovated in 2003, will at first operate only during weekends, while it is to run every day at the peak of the season in July and August, he added.
During the summer months, visitors are primarily mountaineers, who use the ski centre as a starting point for trips to the surrounding peaks. Day-trippers and mountain bikers also visit the slopes in the summer and some 40% of them come from abroad, said Ursic.
The ski resort of Cerkno (western Slovenia) will meanwhile open the summer season on 24 June, with ski lifts operating on weekends until the end of September.
According to Miran Ciglic, the director of hotel and ski resort operator Cerkno Hotel, Cerkno is expecting between 400 and 600 mountaineers daily during the summer season.
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