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