 Poster: A snowHead
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Two of Australia's most important ski resorts - Thredbo and Perisher Blue in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales - are reporting record-breaking business, and the best conditions since 1990.
This report from the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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So we should get PG to send his daughter Hannou to the Antipodes on a regular basis - she seems to have attracted super conditions. The 1/2 French Ambassadress.
Great news for the Aussies.
Here's a very active discussion forum where you don't need to register to read how much they're enjoying it all.
ski.com.au
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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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Good conditions, but not so much powder where she is, in South Island NZ. In fact they only went to Queenstown because it was impossible to book Thredbo this start of the season, well before the snow arrived all accommodation had been taken.....
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She might be better off than you think. There's rain in Thredbo 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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The latest info from NZ has just arrived by email, will add to the Snow Reports section....
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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If Charlotte Swift is still about, she might like to know that Richard "Mad Dog" Evans is teaching again in Thredbo this season. Anyone know if they have broadband? 
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Falls Creek also looking good. Scroll down for Wanaka in South Island NZ.
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Alan Craggs, Had an email from her, she was in the throes of moving plus coping with the start of the summer season in L2A, so hasn't been able to connect up to the forum yet...
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Alan Craggs, Thanks for the news. Every year he says he's not going back.... I'll hopefully catch up with him in the autumn in the UK.
For any snowheads going ski-ing in OZ at Thredbo, I highly recommend Richard - a really great instructor with no "guru" rubbish ideas!!! 
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easiski, I think he's hoping to have cracked it for next year with both winter and summer in Beaver Creek. Catch him when you can!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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They sound about as well organised as the South of England where even a flurry of flakes can paralyse the place.  Shame to have all that white stuff and not to be able to get up to the resorts. Is this another instance of 'global weirding' (copyright D G Orf)
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You know it makes sense.
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May have been unfair to the Ozzie snowplough and gritter drivers. According to this article it has been quite a violent storm.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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kuwait_ian, even in the SE England some of the problems were understandable. One recent (2003?) snow storm, the snow where my wife was working was so intense that the rush-hour car tracks were being covered up befrore the next car passed. In those condiations no amount of clearance preparation could work - on smaller roads, especially. Add to that the fact that the system just rotated over the one spot, a lot of snow fell.
Half of the reason for the disruption is the fact that a lot of cars (or the drivers) aren't able to cope with the conditions and you get gridlocked roads and accidents. This can make it difficult for snow ploughs and gritters to get through.
That's why some countries don't try and scrape the roads clear but insist on snow chains instead. Can you imagine the response if it was made compulsory for drivers to carrt snow chains around the SE?
That said the amount of disruption in 2004 seemed a little disprortionate - though it was very soon cleared up.
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Poster: A snowHead
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We had the bizarre sight this year of the gritter coming down he road at 0830 doing a mighty fine job of clearing the way after rush hour had died down only to be followed 15 minutes later by the roadsweeper who cleared up all the grit!!
Talk about left arm doesn't know what the right arm is doing. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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FenlandSkier, isn't grit only effective for a short amount of time anyway? Hence the need for some pretty accurate timing in laying it down.
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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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One month after this thread was launched, the Australian ski season is proving to be a real vintage. One resort, Mount Buller, has announced that it will run lifts until early October, which is unusual for Australia.
Here are couple of reports from ski.com.au, dated today and last Friday respectively:
Falls Creek, Victoria.
Perisher Blue, New South Wales.
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