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By downunder@mountainnews.com on June 24, 2008
NEW ZEALAND - Cardrona Resort on the South Island of New Zealand is celebrating the season opening June 27 with a special guest, the Prime Minister of the country, Helen Clarke. The leader of the country last attended the opening of the Cardrona Whitestar Express chairlift in 2004 and will return this season to officially open the new high-speed chairlift at Cardrona, the Captain’s Express.
By downunder@mountainnews.com on June 16, 2008
NEW ZEALAND -- The Canterbury region is winning the snow wars on the South Island with Mt. Hutt opening with fresh snow for skiers and boarders. temperatures further south in the Queenstown region hit a balmy 14 degrees Celsius (57 F).
By downunder@mountainnews.com on June 10, 2008
New Zealand’s Mt. Potts cat skiing operation has traded up this season, launching the Southern Hemisphere’s first ‘heli park’ for mad skiers and boarders wanting some heli skiing on a private mountain.
By downunder@mountainnews.com on June 4, 2008
Coronet Peak is the first to crank up the chairlifts this winter with opening day on June 7. With a $30million upgrade completed over summer, the new-look resort now boasts the biggest automotive snowmaking system in New Zealand. Locals are expected to descend upon Coronet Peak’s sleek new day lodge on Saturday to enjoy the already 90cm snow base.
By downunder@mountainnews.com on September 19, 2007
Mt Hutt's annual Spring Back To Hutt festival starts on September 23 for seven days of snowcapped hilarity.
By downunder@mountainnews.com on September 19, 2007
It's spring season and Treble Cone on New Zealand's South Island are pumping it up with fifty percent off lift tickets on September 21 and 28.
By downunder@mountainnews.com on September 9, 2007
New Zealand has experienced fresh winter snowstorms in the first week of spring, bringing over half a metre of fresh dry snow.
By downunder@mountainnews.com on September 9, 2007
The first FIS Snowboard World Cup event in New Zealand was held at Cardrona this week with competitors from around the world converging upon the South Island.
Fifty five men and twenty three women from seventeen nations took to the half pipe in windy conditions to launch the World Cup snowboard season.
By downunder@mountainnews.com on August 29, 2007
The Austrian Ski team gave Mt Hutt the thumbs up this season as they took their training south of the equator. Herman Maier is already a regular season trainer at Mt Hutt and this year a further two Austrian training camps for World Cup and Olympic racers were run on the mountain.
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By downunder@mountainnews.com on July 2, 2008
NEW ZEALAND - The North Island ski fields of Whakapapa and Turoa on Mt. Ruapehu is celebrating a much needed mammoth dump of snow. The mountain received a week of heavy snowfalls resulting in a record snow base, after a week of rain that washed away the active volcano's minimal snow cover revealing rocks and grass.