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'Preview skiing' for Australasia's new winter
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

Skiable snow has come at least a month early in parts of Australia and New Zealand this year. Mount Buller in Australia received sufficiently deep cover in recent days and Mount Hutt on the south island of New Zealand opened up for the weekend with a reported 45cm base (more likely not a base but new snow). Their scheduled opening date is not until 13 June.

This report and photos from SnowCo.nz.

The irony is that big areas of the Alps still have much more impressive high-altitude snow than this, but the lifts are in hibernation until next December. Some parts of Switzerland have over 3m of snow. Enthusiasm is always greater in the anticipation period of a season than the closing stages of it, though (in my experience) the very best skiing experiences - and, of course, weather - can be seized in late April/early May.

In contrast, cutting first tracks on 'preview snow' can be risky, since there's often a lack of real base and lots of nasties just under the surface!
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Did actually go up to Buller for a ski and laugh on Sunday. Beautiful weather. Nobody taking it seriously, but plenty of people enjoying the experience. We only skied until lunchtime, by which time the snow was consistency of a slurpee and pretty thin in a lot of places, but hey that gave us the excuse to have a nice long lunch and a quiet drive home.

I hear what you are saying about the snow in the Alps - there is more up there now, than Australian resorts are likely to get all winter.
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