A snow leopard is seen enjoying some fresh snow courtesy of Perisher Blue ski resort.

An abundance of snow at Australia’s largest ski resort, Perisher in New South Wales, left it with a nice problem on their hands. What to do with all this snow? Well the resort decided to donate 15 tones of snow to The National Zoo and Aquarium in Australian capital Canberra to the great joy of the Zoo’s snow leopards and brown bears.

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Mt. Hotham kicks off top ski season in a decade.

Australia’s Mt Hotham ski resort reported their opening weekend was the first in ten years where snow cover so early in the season was good enough for runs to open beneath the Great Alpine Road.

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Mt. Buller is going ahead with plans for a new quad chair. Photo: Kit Rundle

Mt. Buller in Australia, like the country’s other major resorts, has had a good start to the season with 15cm (six inches) of new snow ahead of the season after a month of mostly low temperatures allowed it to build a heathly base with snowmaking.

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The introduction of a new snowmaking system will increase capacity at Mt. Hotham

With global warming taking on unprecedented turns everywhere,  Australia’s Hotham ski area has invested $1.7 M to increase snowmaking capacity by 50 per cent for the upcoming season.

The resort has installed 22 new TechnoAlpin fan snowguns hthroughout the Heavenly Valley snowmaking system. Two of these M-18 guns are mounted on arms providing further reach and hang time (for the snowflakes to fall to the ground) and even less intrusion onto the ski slope.

So long as temperatures are low enough, the snowmaking allows the resort to produce a solid and consistent snow base for a longer period and particularly at the start and end of ski season 2010.

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Recent cold temperatures have allowed Perisher ski resort in Australia us to fire up the snowmaking system for winter 2010.

The country’s biggest resort, located in New South Wales, has more than 150 snow guns covering the resort’s key runs.

“Mother Nature even came to the party this week with some light natural snowfalls, and with more snow predicted for next week we are hopeful of a good cover of snow for the opening weekend on June 12,” said a resort statement.

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It’s proving to be an awesome ski season in the Southern Hemisphere.
Perisher ski resort in Southeastern Australia, which reported 32cm (13 inches) of fresh snow in 24 hours last week, is the latest hill to boast great conditions.
To-date an accumulated 191cm (6.3 feet) of snow has settled across the resort, comprising 71cm (2.3 feet) in June and 120cm (4 feet) since the beginning of July, allowing Perisher to offer excellent riding conditions across its four resort areas.

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Some skiers favor safety over recklessness, and some live in the moment.
Nick Regos, an 80-year-old skier at Australia’s Mount Buller ski resort last Monday apparently still falls into the latter category. After attempting a two-metre ski jump on a black run and breaking his leg, the man was asked by medics why he had attempted it at his age.
“Life’s too short,” he replied.
Living in the moment, the man was flown by air ambulance to Melbourne for treatment, an eventful end to his ski season.

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