With snow scarce, some resorts promote biking trails and adventure parks, others try to move their ski runs to higher elevations. Many have closed.
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Margherita Stancati / Photographs by Carlotta Cardana for The Wall Street Journal
LA MORTE, France—Earlier this month it was too warm even to make artificial snow in this Alpine village. The local ski resort’s operators did something they never had before: They opened summer biking trails in the middle of winter.
The event drew hundreds of mountain bikers over the course of a weekend. But it did little to assuage fears that the ski resort’s days are numbered.
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