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Mt Dobson skifield turns 30 this year and it’s still a family operation.
The ski area is opening on Saturday, three weeks ahead of schedule, after better snow conditions than last year.
Mt Dobson has been owned and run by the Foote family since 1979 when they began developing it from a tractor-powered rope tow. Peter and the late Shirley Foote developed the road to the summit over four years, after a lengthy application process with the Department of Lands and Survey.
Mr Foote spent 7000 hours on bulldozers and graders…Â Details
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