Pulling Up Stakes

The sun is shining, the sky is blue, there is a cooling breeze and snow on the ground. Ski Patrol are out removing the plastic poles and ropes around the plantations while lift staff are removing the padding from around the base of lift pylons.

Spring is here and the first hour is when you do your top to bottoms on Supertrail. After that it’s go up high and if prepared out onto the main range.

Last Saturday night was Andy’s last night playing in the Après bar, Tuesday night was the last night for the Schuss bar this season and Mark was seeing us off with accompaniment by DJ Max who spun his vinyl to jam with Mark.

Temperature inversions the last couple of mornings have left the top the mountain above zero overnight while the lower slopes had a frost to firm them up. The groomers have down a wonderful job to keep us on good snow but they are fighting a loosing battle.

The Supertrail should remain top to bottom until the weekend rains come and then it depends how much rain comes. The warm NW winds have been stripping the snow day and night. When I did possibly my last DHG run this morning, the snowline had receded so much since Sunday that we had thew walk the last 100m down the slope.

Jackie outside Ski-in Ski-out - Thursday

Daniel and others on lower Supertrail - Thursday

Friday Flat melting away

Bottom of Sponars

Bottom on Antons is somewhat better

Looking down on Merritts

A slide instigated by a boarder beyond Stanley's

Upper Supertrail still good

Way above Bogong Creek

Dead Horse Gap walk out - Friday

Forecasts have heavy rain heading our way for the weekend. We may be lucky and be spared this sudden death. I don’t think we will be as lucky as we have the past 3 weekends when the resort looked finished but a fresh snowfall kept us going.