Into The 5th Month Of The Season

Lifts opened this year in Thredbo for skiing and boarding on June 8th. Now with a season length resembling some of the bigger Northern Hemisphere resorts, Thredbo and some other Australian resorts are beginning their fifth month of continuous operation.

Yesterday started off a little damp with the clouds sitting below the top of the mountains. This lifted as the morning go started and left a mostly cloudy day with odd snow flurries down below Kareela. Yes, it did rain a little in the village.

The main interest on Crackenback was Australia’s greatest alpine skier and multi gold medal winner, Michael Milton, dressed in his exotic red plastic suit and helmet doing promo shots in readiness for his assault on the world speed skiing record during the upcoming Northern Hemisphere winter.

Today I awoke to a dusting of new snow down to the village. The Supertrail was sweet with soft groom and a fresh topping of 1-2 cms that felt like creamy man-made snow. The clouds broke to expose the sun and blue sky and the handful of locals out on the slopes treated Thredbo as their own private resort. Lots of speed and even more fun.

Busy Supertrail yesterday morning

Michael Milton in his speed record gear, on Supertrail

Michael Milton promo shots – and yes it’s snowing

Dusting of new snow in the resort this morning

Richard on lower Supertrail

Thin freshies on World Cup this morning

Kareela Hutte and looking towards the top of Gunbarrel

Central Spur (covered but closed)

The Supertrail is getting thin and narrow at Ski In Ski Out. Snow is forecast for tonight and into tomorrow. It seems there is no endbut the last days are in sight – get up here if you can.