Perisher Valley (NSW), Australia – Heading into the Queen’s Birthday Weekend, the traditional opening of the Australian ski and snowboard season, slopes were brown and bare across the mountains of New South Wales and Victoria with temperatures too warm to make snow. As if on demand, however, snow began to fall on Saturday, accumulating modest totals that combined with last-minute snowmaking efforts in the colder air to allow early-season glisse at one Australian resort.
Twenty-one centimeters of snow fell in Perisher village overnight Sunday night, allowing the ski resort to offer top-to-bottom skiing on the Front Valley on Monday via the Village Eight Express chairlift after 95 snow guns fired up on Sunday night …Â Details
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Christchurch, New Zealand – It’s time to start pulling out those couch cushions and rummaging for spare change, because it could buy a ski and snowboard weekend in Canterbury, on New Zealand’s South Island.
To help shake off the winter blues and mark the winter solstice in style, Christchurch & Canterbury Tourism is offering visitors to the New Zealand region the deal of a lifetime – a night’s accommodation in a Christchurch hotel, or a selection of activities for just NZD $1…Â Details
It was a little better than expected with some new snow, but more is needed. The Aussies though made up for it with partying, but Down Under they are still the poor cousins of the Kiwis when it comes to snow.
New Zealand has had a dream start with plenty of snow and resorts opening early – some 2 weeks ahead of schedule.
But it hasn’t been so good for the Australian resorts that have had their opening weekends; amoung them Mt Buller, Mt Hotham, Thredbo, Falls Creek and Perisher…Â Details