Neighbouring Australian resorts Mt Buller and Falls Creek have just launched wireless internet access across their whole ski domain. The system also includes an interactive trail map for PDAs and internet-linked mobile phones. It will have the latest conditions on each run, which lifts are operating, and information such as the steepness of a run, its width, and its top and bottom elevation.
As soon as there are changes in conditions, they will be added by the ski patrol.
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Other features of the map will include weather forecasts, and snow-grooming and snow-making reports. Skiers wishing to view only beginner runs, or intermediate runs, or the most difficult black runs will be able to highlight them with symbols on the PDA toolbar.
Now, at $5 Aus for half an hour, it might not seem attractive but u can get 24hr access for a whole week for $29 or a season for $239 which seems a lot more fun
For more information:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/wireless--broadband/geeks-on-ice/2006/06/28/1151174266163.html
http://www.whispar.com/
Falls Creek has also installed the longest moving carpet in the country, named Mouse Trap. The perspex-covered moving carpet (the first and only covered carpet in the southern hemisphere) is 114 metres long. It replaces the Tom Thumb lift and has been imported from Austria.
See:
http://www.fallscreek.com.au/website/default.asp