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With about a month until the scheduled start of skiing here I guess it's time to start this years thread. No new lifts in the region this year but there have been some changes of interest. Treble Cone has done an upgrade on it's Home Basin chair and purchased two new winch groomers. Cardrona has done quite a bit of earth works both to the terrain park and creating some new runs and upgrading others. Also a new cafe and toilets and increased car parking at the base of the Valley View chair. The Remarkables has sealed a few more km's of the road and added more parking spaces. Nothing new that I know of for Coronet Peak. The weather has been unseasonably warm but hopefully turnning colder and wetter as this week goes on. More to come as the winter gets closer. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Sarge McSarge, Excellent Iniative!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Nasty sw wind freezing cold and torrential rain outside Should be good for the first bit of 2016 snow.
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Looking forward to the reports 
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We have now just had a couple of days of snow down to about 800m so well below the bottom of the lowest lifts. That and some serious snow making has made a great start to this winters snow base. Reports of 75cm in the Remarkables and 20cm+ on Coronet Peak with lovely cold conditions forecast has brought lots of smiles to town.
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With less than two weeks till the first lifts due to open the snow cover is looking pretty good. We have had a number of small snow falls with nicely cold temperatures and snow was down to about 600m this morning. Cold and sunny conditions forcast so snow making should help top up natures offering.
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After a couple of days of rain to make us all sad Coronet Peak is opening today. Limited lifts and runs open and off piste will be pretty much unskiable. The good news is that the weather is turning colder so snow making is back on and there is some snow in the forcast. Should be a bit better by tuesday which is my next day off.
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Proper fat chunky snowflakes in methven at the moment 😀
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@hang11, My first thought was rather negative (Barsteward) but that was just jealousy. Hope you get plenty.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Bad job 
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Still no major improvement in this part of the world. It has been cold enough for snowmaking off and on but not sufficient for Coronet Peak to re open. Treble Cone has not opened at all so far and with Cardrona and The Remakables both open with thin snow and big crowds it has been the worst start in years. Still hoping for winter to arrive but it won't be this week.
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You know it makes sense.
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Next Thursday to Saturday is looking like it will happen
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@hang11, I hope so. With a run of cooler weather allowing continual snowmaking Coronet Peak is re opening on Saturday but skiing will be restricted to man made snow only. Fingers crossed that some snow is coming.
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Poster: A snowHead
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the charts look like a big southerly is coming at the back end of next week with a lot of moisture, so fingers crossed.
on the bright side, been growing vegetables and catching some great fish with all this warm weather
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Finally some snow has arrived. 10cm overnight and more coming over the next few days. Not a great amount so far but anything at all is welcome given the situation. I have had only two days on the snow this season which considering the first lifts opened over a month ago is a very sad state of affairs.
Hope to have better news as time goes on.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Another bad start?!? I remember the last few years weren't great in the NI, but was always told it comes rather later than the hoped for opening dates.
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Another 10cm overnight so things are on the up. At least it looks like a winter resort now. Hopefully more in the next few days to keep it on track.
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10 to 30cm in the last 36hrs so it does look like winter is here at last. More off and on during the next few days just in time for my first couple of weeks of ski holiday
Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Mon 18-07-16 6:37; edited 1 time in total
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@Sarge McSarge,
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That's looking good. Thanks for posting.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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A few more cm's overnight and 15 to 20 forecast for the next two days so all is looking good down here.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@Sarge McSarge, I've got a nephew out there at the moment, doing a season at Cardrona. He emailed me this morning to say this:
"I had a phenomenal powder day yesterday - we had 50cm through the week and close to 30cm fresh overnight - I was on the third chair and just smashed some awesome terrain all morning! I got fresh tracks on heaps of lines/faces and multiple 20ft+ cliffs too - so sick!"
Reckon he's doing ok.
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@Double Bombardino, Sounds like he is having a good time All the mountains have picked up some good snow in the last few days with at least 45cm everywhere. It's snowing again this morning and should continue off and on until at least tomorrow morning. No complaints from this part of the world.
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You know it makes sense.
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Another 15 to 20 cm's on the mountains since yesterday so the good run continues. So busy at Coronet Peak today that they have closed the road and are turning people away. The lift queues will be horrendous, good thing I came home for lunch.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Looks like a big dump is on its way? Lucky you
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Poster: A snowHead
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Not so lucky as it mostly missed us and went up the east coast and further north which is good news for Canterbury area with good falls reported from Mt Hutt and others. Just a few cm's on the local mountains but on top of what we have had in the last week it is all looking pretty good.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Another beautiful sunny day here with good skiing on and off the groomed runs. A little snow forecast for tomorrow and maybe again on Sunday so lets hope they are right.
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Yup pretty fine with just a light fall on Sunday night which gave us a lovely smooth velvet feeling on top of the existing surface. Especially nice on the ungroomed which had a soft ski packed surface before the snow fall. Since then it has been fine weather and lovely skiing.
@gortonator, Great report on Treble Cone and Cardrona. They are both great fun with fresh snow.
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Blue sky, no wind, no crowds ,and very nice fresh snow so today was really very nice.
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Looks great Sarge McSarge - NZ is on our to do list....Are current conditions typical for the time of year? When does the season end?
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