New Zealand Ski Areas Break Snowfall Records and Extend Season
New Zealand Ski Areas Break Snowfall Records and Extend Season
Published : 11-Sep-2015 03:24
Coronet Peak, a ski area near Queenstown in New Zealand, announced earlier today that it has broken it's all time snowfall record – with a month of the ski season still to go.
In a separate move Mt Ruapehu, another New Zealand ski resort, had announced a two week extension to its 2015 ski season, to October 26th. The resort is generally the last top remain open in the southern hemisphere and often ends up opening in to 'Snowvember.'
It follows news of more good snowfalls in Australia – where members of the British Ski and Snowboard team including James 'Woodsy' Woods are currently training – and South America, meaning it looks like winter 2015 will finish off a good one in most of the leading ski regions of the southern hemisphere, even if it started off slowly in some.
Coronet Peak's snowfall tally passed the 3m mark and the old record set in 2010 earlier today after another 10cm of snow fell.
"This is the winter that just keeps on giving! We're thrilled that the awesome conditions our guests have enjoyed throughout the season are continuing and we'd love to get as many people up the mountains to enjoy our record snow," said Paul Anderson, CEO of resort operator NZSki
At another of the company's ski areas, The Remarkables, the exceptional snow cover to lower levels means the boundary of the Homeward Run has been extended out to the Outward Bound ridgeline, more than 1.5km (almost a mile) down the access road.
"This encompasses another 13ha of terrain across wandering, rolling faces and gullies ending up on the access road right at our new Number 4 car park where they can pick up the shuttle to get backkl up," said ski area manager Ross Lawrence.
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