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Why skiing exists in South Africa - and what for
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This interesting report by Barnaby Phillips, just posted on BBC Online, highlights the skiing at Tiffindell, 3000m up the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa - and its challenges in providing some snow!

Tiffindell's operators do some interesting work with the local community:
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The tiny village of Rhodes is tucked away at the bottom of the valley, beneath Tiffindell. Here, many of the poorer black children live in shacks without electricity. Most of their parents are unemployed.

But, once a week, a group of these children drive up the steep mountain track to Tiffindell, and take to the slopes. The resort supplies them with equipment. The headmaster of the local school, Pieter Steyn, is also a keen skier, and accompanies the children.

He says learning to ski has built their confidence, and broadened their horizons.


Anyone skied at Tiffindell?
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Not skied there but been to the Drakensberg. Highly recommend it although seeing a tree about 50m away hit by lightning and then explode was a bit unsettling.

I'm pleased to see that their "snowmaking equipment is like a fancy sprinkler system"
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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?

Likewise, been to the Drakensberg in summer.
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The closest we got to winter sports was the weather - hailstones the size of, well, large hailstones when we arrived in the dead of night. Half expected to wake up in the morning to find hire care dented by them, half expected to die - the storm was so bad and we only had a very vague idea of where we should be going.

Of course, the next morning was perfect and the view from our cottage at Thendele was just like this
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