Victoria’s alpine resorts still have high hopes,despite lower snowfall than last year’s opening weekend dumps.
The NSW ski fields were a picture of white at the end of May,but visitors this weekend will be looking out on more grass than snow.
Peel claimed victory with stunning triple back somersaults in the season’s final aerial skiing World Cup meeting to finish just behind Scott,who came second in Kazakhstan,on the overall standings.
A single lane into Falls Creek is expected to reopen in time for the ski season after businesses endured a nightmarish summer of isolation,cut off by the state’s largest landslip.
The bus,containing approximately 40 adults and children,was travelling along Kosciuszko Road before it came off the road on Monday evening.
The 23-year-old Canberra man has now spent two nights out in the snow after last making contact with family from Jindabyne about 10am on Saturday.
Former Shore student Oliver Johnston,18,lost control on the slopes and hit a tree on Sunday morning,police said.
Victoria’s ski fields are covered in the most early-season snow in decades,with pandemic-hit snow resorts hopeful the heavy falls signal a longer season.
The first day of winter has delivered another dumping of snow across parts of the state,prompting ski resorts in the Snowy Mountains to launch the season early.
Snow is falling,there’s a wind warning and Victoria has endured one of its coldest days of the year. Winter might be almost here,but that won’t stop one brave bay swimmer’s early morning ritual.
The 40-year-old consultant anesthetist at St Vincent’s Hospital in Darlinghurst pulls four-wheel-drive tyres along the sand for up to six hours,several times a week,to simulate the 200-kilogram sled he will drag across 2600 kilometres of snow and ice later this year.