{"id":19930,"date":"2012-04-18T17:46:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T15:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/end-of-season-party-party\/"},"modified":"2012-04-18T17:46:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T15:46:38","slug":"end-of-season-party-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/end-of-season-party-party\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Season Party Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a special feeling in the Alps this time of year. The winter is coming to an end<br \/>\nand people are starting to dream about shorts, bikes and barbecues.<br \/>\nBut sometimes the weather changes your plans and you get some of the best powder<br \/>\nof the season in April. It happens almost every year and so it did again. April fools&#8230;<br \/>\nBut a sure sign of the inevitable ending are the End of Season Parties.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know more just click on the words in the text.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6513\" src=\"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/wordpress\/uploads\/2012\/04\/skiheelfest3-365x321.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some parties take place at the end of March like the legendary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livignofreeheel.it\/en\/home.jsp?idrub=61866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Free Heel Festival in Livigno<\/a>,<br \/>\na must for every fan of Telemark. If this is your kind of fun just block next years<br \/>\n19th version, 6-12 April 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The answer for most resorts seem to be rock concerts on the mountain or in the village.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some samples:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6477\" src=\"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/wordpress\/uploads\/2012\/04\/plan_des_sc__nes_rock_the_pistes-404x285.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Portes du Soleil had a number of concerts on the mountain during a couple of days in March,<br \/>\nthey called it <a href=\"http:\/\/en.rockthepistes.com\/free-concerts-ski.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rock the Pistes Festival<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zermatt has its own unplugged version of party going on this very week<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zermatt-unplugged.ch\/cms\/site\/img\/programm-poster.jpg?rel=3\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"505\" \/><\/p>\n<p>S\u00f6lden has its reputation of being a party town to defend and they present themselves<br \/>\nas the Alpine Hotspot of Sports and Lifestyle. They have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soelden.com\/main\/EN\/SD\/WI\/Events\/top_events\/electric_mountain_festival\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electric Mountain Festival<\/a><br \/>\n9-21 of April. The top name is (or was) the French Super Star DJ David Guetta.<\/p>\n<p>Val d&#8217;Is\u00e8re has a couple of days of Party, they simply call it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdisere.com\/fr\/evenements\/temps_forts\/fin_de_saison.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fetes de fin du Saison<\/a><br \/>\nMostly French locals and British tourist but supposed to be quiet fun, 27\/4-1\/5.<\/p>\n<p>The wildest Party of all is said to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ischgl.com\/events-top_of_the_mountain_concert-74.en.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mega Concert Mega Party<\/a> at Idalp in Ischg on the<br \/>\n30th of April. This year Mariah Carey will be on stage at 13.00 in front of an audience of 20.000.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6476\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2012\/04\/end-of-season-party-party\/carey\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6476\" src=\"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/wordpress\/uploads\/2012\/04\/carey-404x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous years have seen superstars like Elton John, Tina Turner and Roxette.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6471\" src=\"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/wordpress\/uploads\/2012\/04\/defi-foly-467-215x321.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"597\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The craziest end of season happening by far is the Defi Foly in La Clusaz where the<br \/>\nlittle cute and quiet mountain lake Lac des Confins becomes the scene of a fun and<br \/>\ncrazy attempt to traverse the lake on skis, boards and all kind of imaginable vessels.<br \/>\nWatch this 5 min movie (in French) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skipass.com\/videos\/waterslide-10-ans-d-ognis-a-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defi foly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And if you don&#8217;t like the idea of ending the winter there is a place that usually<br \/>\nhave another 2 month of skiing and the season actually starts with a Party on the<br \/>\n24 of May. 790 cm of snow at the bottom station. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stryn.no\/sommerski\/forside.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hello Stryn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cin Cin, Sant\u00e9, Saluti, Prost, Sk\u00e5l<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a special feeling in the Alps this time of year. The winter is coming to an end and people are starting to dream about shorts, bikes and barbecues&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-other"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}