Browsing entries tagged with Australia
6 Jun 2022
The ski season in Australia has started with a bang — with Perisher in the Southern Alps recording a metre of snow in the past week, the biggest snowfall for the start of a winter in more than half a…
18 Jun 2018
The ski resort of Perisher in New South Wales, Australia, will open this coming week while enjoying the same cold and wintery conditions that besieged the Alps last season. Perisher has received more than…
6 Sep 2017
The Australian ski resort of Perisher is continuing its bumper season with 1.2m of snow this week — the beginning of spring — following its announcement that the ski season is extended. Perisher, in…
1 Jun 2017
Perisher ski resort in Australia is opening this weekend, a week earlier than traditionally scheduled thanks to fabulous early conditions. While North America is still skiing away, the southern hemisphere…
6 May 2014
As the ski season draws to a close in the Northern Hemisphere, resorts in Australia are reporting the first snowfalls of the year. Although the start of the ski season in Perisher and Thredbo is still…
14 Jun 2013
To cope with a busy ski season in the southern hemisphere, more flights have been laid on between Wellington and Queenstown in New Zealand. The ski season opened in Coronet Peak near Queenstown last weekend…
28 Sep 2012
As Tignes prepares to open to skiers this weekend, ski resorts in Australia have extended their season and are hailing it as one of the best ever. Thredbo and Perisher in New South Wales and Mt Buller…
24 Jun 2011
The southern hemisphere season is off to a slow start, with resorts in New Zealand having experienced an unseasonably warm few weeks. Resorts have postponed opening days until sufficient snowfall arrives…
23 May 2011
Three weeks ahead of schedule and Perisher is the first resort in Australia to open its ski area for the winter season. We reported last week that the southern hemisphere had enjoyed its first significant…
14 May 2011
Winter is on the way in Australia, with the first notable snowfalls arriving for resorts in Victoria and New South Wales. Resorts such as Perisher, Falls Creek, Mt Hotham and Mt Buller have all benefitted…
26 Aug 2010
According to local reports ski resorts in Australia are experiencing some of their biggest snowfalls in years – with record dumps in Victoria and the prospect of a very good late season. Some regional…
2 Aug 2010
After a pretty warm spell of weather recently, Australian slopes have been transformed over the weekend. Heavy snow and high winds have arrived in many resorts, dumping well over half a metre of snow in…
8 May 2010
Resorts in the southern hemisphere have reported their first signs of winter, with snowfalls in Chile and Australia. In Australia, snow dusted the mountains in New South Wales and in parts of Victoria.…
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