A Whiter Shade of Grey

Yes, we had a dusting overnight. Temperatures have been sub zero for a while and cold southwesterly winds having been hammering up the valley.

On our artic conditioning trip today (-15C wind-chill) we saw snow as low as under mid station on the Kosi Express – which is open once more after a few weeks of regular maintenance.

Ski patrol were in town over the weekend preparing for winter and Michael Milton entertained us all with a recounting of his world record breaking run at Les Arcs this year of 210+kph.

9:00am Sunday morning – upper Supertrail

Ice crystals on alpine grass

Ice sitting on Karel’s T-Bar with moon behind

Ice falling from Basin T-bar cable (no T’s fitted yet)

Signature Hill

Mini ice waterfall

Mt Kosciuszko

Mt Twynam

Snap frozen vegetation

Streams slowly solidifying

Weather permitting snowmaking may begin early this week. The next few weeks will be interesting. Predictions about the coming season are rife but I’m not getting into that. The premonition of a 2m dump did not come with a date - month, year or century.