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Might be heading out to Sydney in August and was hoping to get some skiing in seeing as I'm traveling that far! Anyone know anything about Australian or New Zealand resorts? Any reccommendations, tips etc?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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?
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Yes, Dont expect much . NSW >Thredbo can be good , Perisher is flat.
Victoria"s resorts
( mt buller,falls creek,mt hotham )are small .
Whatever if just like sking in Europe with hordes of UK skibums.
I really now know why Ozzy's come to ski/teach in Europe & North America 
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| just like sking in Europe with hordes of UK skibums |
give me that over a bunch of Flachlandtiroler who talk like they have throat cancer and feel the need to slip on the snow chains on the Munich - Salzburg Autobahn. Anyday 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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If your a decent skier, the club fields around Canterbury in NZ are amazing. Acessed by high speed rope tows which you clamp onto with a 'nut-cracker' attached to your harness. There are no mod cons, no grooming, no punters but a lot of untracked snow, cheap rates and friendly atmosphere. The most well known are probably Cragieburn and Broken River pictured bellow but there are many more.
See
http://www.brokenriver.co.nz/
http://www.craigieburn.co.nz/
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Thanks for the advice... I might check out Thredbo. To be honest, I'm not really expecting Les Trois Vallées or anything, it's just a good excuse to get an extra bit of skiing in!
Any excuse will do!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Thredbo is the pick and in August should be top-to-bottom (albeit lots of man-made). When the conditions are good, Thredbo is excellent as the terrain is pretty good - some really nice tree skiing. Weekends in August are busy-ish - hit the lifts early, but mid-week wil be quiet. Nice village too - good apres. And rug up too if the winds are up - straight off the South Pole ...
In NZ, club fields are wild if you're up to them. Treble Cone at Wanaka is the pick of the commercial resorts - some wonderful terrain there. Ruepahu on North Island has some really great terrain too, but weather can be very wild. And this year, the added fun of eruptions might be an interesting addition!
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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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Yes, the resorts are tiny.
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| Whitegold wrote: |
| Yes, the resorts are tiny. |
but the off-piste is all safe, so there's lots of places to explore.
And drink the microbrews - much better than VB!
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You know it makes sense.
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stanton, the Aussies hate the English! Love the rest of us
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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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| arv wrote: |
| stanton, the Aussies hate the English! Love the rest of us |
Hey - I'm English!
And Australian ....
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Poster: A snowHead
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gortonator, do you have split personalities?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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There are five big resorts (around 8,000 beds each) in Australia.
New South Wales
- Perisher Blue has over 50 shortish lifts, mostly T-bars
- Thredbo has 15 long lifts and a good town atmosphere
In Victoria the big resorts are
-Mt Buller which has 25 chairlifts, but as it's less than 3 hours from Melbourne (population 4 million) it gets a lot of day trippers. Bullers other problem is that cover is not good in a poor season.
- Falls Creek has the most reliable snow in Australia and a good variety of runs, but only 20% of its runs are "black runs" for expert skiers.
- Mt Hotham has lots of cruisey upper intermediate and advanced runs, its beginner ares are limited and mostly in unsheltered areas above the treeline.
There are also a number of smaller resorts. Probably the best of them is Mt Baw Baw east of Melbourne. It has 7 ski lifts, 1,500 beds and 3 cafes/pubs. Lift tickets are $A49, half the price of the big resorts.
Other small resorts include Ben Lomond (Tasmania), Charlotte Pass (NSW, difficult access only 4 lifts) and Selwyn Snowfields (NSW, no on mountain beds)
Post here or send me a message if you have any questions about skiing in Australia. Resorts, backcountry steeps or cross country touring. I do them all! 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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While skiing in Japan and saw so many Australians so I asked a couple of them why they preferred coming to Japan. The reply was to them skiing in Japan was about 2 to 3 times cheaper.
Just checked Austalia's Thredbo day pass the asking price is AUD 95. This is Euro 55 at today's exchange rate
The Zermatt day pass costs only CHF 76 and that is Euro 47.
The real surprise could be after paying more than the the top price to find the snow and facilities at the bottom range. The Australian told me the poor snow condition I experienced in Japan would be regarded the best they could get in Australia.
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My nephew loves snow and lives in Australia (Sydney) and says it's cheaper for him, and much better, to get a week's package to NZ than ski in Australia.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Mt Buller is the worst hill i've ever skied. I guess in the context of Australia it ain't bad.
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2000overdrive, Send a private message to Little Tiger she is Australian and is back there now. she will be able to advise where would be best in relation to where you'll be, and will probably have some personal info on the conditions in various places. She also knows about cheap places to stay!
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Hi Bogong,
Bogong is good - you can trust his advice... but he has bumped an old thread up...
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Hi Little Tiger!.
It's nice to see someone I know from www.forums/ski.com.au here.
I don't think an 85 day old thread is that ancient! Anyway there was a fair bit of hearsay that was a little inaccurate in this thread, so I thought I'd clear a bit of it up.
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| arv wrote: |
| gortonator, do you have split personalities? |
yep - depending on whether I'm upright or inverted 
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Good season in Thredbo I hear. Friends skiing there now in late August are making me very jealous.
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