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Cardrona resort on New Zealand's South Island will host the first stop on the 2008/2009 LG FIS Snowboard World Cup tour on September 6. The resort is expecting over one hundred athletes from eighteen countries with athletes taking to the twenty two foot halfpipe, the only one of it's kind in the Southern Hemisphere. Full Article
4th September 2008
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The K2 Big Mountain Chill Series has been consolidated into one super four day event across Craigieburn and Olympus clubfields in New Zealand's Canterbury ranges. Full Article
27th August 2008
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NEW ZEALAND - The mellow lakeside town of Wanaka on South Island is home to some big names this week as the world's elite descend upon Treble Cone ski area for some serious race training. Full Article
13th August 2008
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13th August 2008
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NEW ZEALAND - It just gets better and better for New Zealand as recent storms have dumped over two metres in two weeks in the Canterbury Region on the South Island. Now the world's top Olympians have descended upon the country's top ski fields for their annual southern hemisphere training schedules. Full Article
4th August 2008
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NEW ZEALAND - Mt. Hutt is winning the snow wars this season with over a metre of snow dumping in 36 hours and the mountain currently closed due to blizzard conditions. The experts are predicting another metre, at least. Full Article
30th July 2008
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NEW ZEALAND - The Stash, the Burton signature terrain park, opens at Remarkables, after five months of planning. Full Article
23rd July 2008
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NEW ZEALAND - Both the North and South Islands experienced a fierce snowstorm July 5, dumping over half a metre of snow on most of the country's resorts.
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9th July 2008
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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. Full Article
2nd July 2008
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OnTheSnow has compiled a Top 10 list of the most popular places to ski or ride in July and August. Full Article
26th June 2008
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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.
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24th June 2008
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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).
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16th June 2008
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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.
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10th June 2008
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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. Full Article
4th June 2008
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Mt Hutt's annual Spring Back To Hutt festival starts on September 23 for seven days of snowcapped hilarity. Full Article
19th September 2007
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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. Full Article
19th September 2007
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New Zealand has experienced fresh winter snowstorms in the first week of spring, bringing over half a metre of fresh dry snow. Full Article
9th September 2007
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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. Full Article
9th September 2007
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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. Full Article
29th August 2007
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Ruapehu's new six seater high speed chairlift worked overtime on Saturday, August 25 as a record 12 500 skiers and boarders descended upon the snow fields of Whakapapa and Turoa. Full Article
29th August 2007
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