Snow Report 28 July 2016 - Australia & New Zealand

Its great to see winter has finally arrived in New Zealand and all the skifields are now open. Both sides of the Tasman now have great winter snow conditions and August is looking excellent for trips up to the mountains.

AUSTRALIA

An incredible amount of rain fell at the end of last week with floods seen in the NSW mountains even at lift level. The rain thankfully turned to snow on Friday night but the damage was considerable.

Some good snowfalls from Saturday to Wednesday has repaired what damage was done. If only the rain hadn't been so torrential we could have been sitting on a huge snow base.

Nevertheless there have been cracking powder conditions earlier this week and hopefully we can build on this.

There looks like more snow to come over the next week or so, especially around the beginning of August. Enjoy!

Hotham 26.07.16 - Hotham Facebook

Mt Baw Baw

Better conditions at Baw Baw after the washout at the end of last week. The rebuilding each time is frustrating! Snow depth: 12-18cm

Mt Buller

A great recovery for Buller after its cover almost washed away before last weekend. Most lifts have reopened over the last few days, including Bull Run and South Side. Snow depth: 53-84cm

Mt Hotham

Super conditions at Hotham earlier this week. Blue Ribbon opened yesterday and its only a matter of time before Gotcha, Keogh's and The Orchard open again with the base around 1 metre. Snow depth: 104-114cm

Perisher 28.07.16 - perisher.com.au

Falls Creek

International Poma has reopened meaning the whole mountain is open at Falls! Snow depth: 114-122cm

Perisher

Perisher has bounced back from the heavy rains and has complete cover again. 44 lifts running today and 73 groomed runs.

Thredbo

In the last seven days, Thredbo is reporting 85cm of snow has fallen .. and there are 14 lifts open today to enjoy the snow!

Selwyn Snowfields

Selwyn has rebuilt its cover since the weekend and today has all runs open again and good snow conditions.


NEW ZEALAND

Porters - skiporters.co.nz

Good snowfalls on the weekend and into this week got most of the skifields open and building up their bases. Canterbury still needs some more snow but at least the Porters and Hutt have better conditions.

Cracking snowfalls over the last day in Queenstown/Wanaka with the skifields reporting 30-50cm and creating awesome conditions!

Looks like some fine days coming up with maybe another snowfall on the weekend.

Snow conditions:

North Canterbury and Nelson

Rainbow 30-40cm
Mt Lyford 20cm

Treble Cone 28.07.16 - treblecone.com

Canterbury

Mt Hutt 40-70cm
Porters 35-65cm

The Mackenzie

Roundhill 40cm
Mt Dobson 20-30cm
Ohau 40-60cm

Wanaka

Treble Cone 40-120cm
Cardrona 65-95cm

Queenstown

Coronet Peak 65-135cm
The Remarkables 75-100cm