Browsing entries tagged with New Zealand
29 Aug 2017
British slopestyle skier James “Woodsy” Woods has said he is “buzzing” after his first win of the season. On Sunday, around six months before the start of the 2018 Winter Olympics, James Woods…
15 Jun 2015
One ski season ended this weekend, and another began — on the other side of the world. After a massive eight-month season, Arapahoe Basin in Colorado, USA, closed its lifts yesterday, Sunday 14…
25 May 2015
The first big dump of the winter has hit New Zealand, with around 30cm of snow falling in Queenstown and Wanaka. The snow day closed schools and roads throughout Central Otago — heralding exciting news…
4 Jun 2014
Coronet Peak, near Queenstown in New Zealand, will fire up its lifts on Saturday (7 June) and become the first ski area to open in Australasia this season. A combination of natural snowfalls in May, cold…
26 May 2014
The ski season will soon be underway in New Zealand — and a storm last night brought fresh snow to the area. Residents of Queenstown and Wanaka awoke this morning (26 May) to find to snow ankle…
26 Jun 2013
Mount Hutt in New Zealand opened again yesterday after a record-breaking storm dumped three metres of snow on the ski area late last week and over the weekend. Conditions were “as good as it gets”…
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…
15 Aug 2011
Heavy snowfall and gale force winds are raging through New Zealand at present, the second major storm of the winter season. New Zealand, which experienced a warm start to the ski season, is now under a…
12 Aug 2011
The Burton New Zealand Open Games is underway in Queenstown (South Island). The games is the country’s biggest snow sports event, featuring an international crowd of skiers and snowboarders plus…
29 Jun 2011
New Zealand’s Snow Park will be the first of the South Island resorts to start the winter season, opening on Thursday 30 June. The park’s operators are squeezing every ounce out of the current…
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…
10 Feb 2010
Cardrona in New Zealand is reinstalling an old lift that will open up more terrain and increase vertical in its ski area next season. The resort will have four chairlifts: the Captains fixed-grip quad,…
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