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A fresh blanket of snow arrived just in time for the opening of the ski season in Falls Creek.

Double joy as drought-breaking rain arrives and snow covers the alps

Wintry weather is forecast to extend into next week, bringing relief to farmers across the state and solid snowfalls for the start of ski season.

  • Hannah Hammoud

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A jogger runs with her dog at Carlton’s Princes Park on the first day of winter.

Snow dump forecast for slopes as cold snap to hit Victoria

Heavy snows are expected this weekend, but the weather bureau says the wet and windy conditions won’t be great for snow sports.

  • Alexander Darling
Roccaraso daytrippers,

Italian ski resort overrun with 10,000 day trippers after TikTok video

A TikTok post from an influencer with 1.7 million followers has created mayhem in an Italian ski town, after thousands of extra visitors descended on it in one day.

  • Josephine McKenna
The new Mount Perisher chairlift construction

The $26m gamble at the top of Australia

It’s perched thousands of metres above sea level, and when finished will be second only to a toilet block as Australia’s highest building.

  • Catherine Naylor
Delta is refreshing its seats, including its Delta One suite.

World’s biggest airline adds new Australia-US route, revamps seats

The US traveller’s desire to escape the cold is the Aussie traveller’s gain, with the launch of a new Delta Air Lines service.

  • Julietta Jameson
A polar storm brings excitment to Mt Buller. Photo by Tony Harrington NEWS 9 August 2019. COLD WEATHER

The Grollos are bullish on Mount Buller, despite the threat of less snow

It’s been a slow start to this year’s ski season in Victoria – and climate change poses an ongoing threat – but business on the slopes is booming.

  • Simon Johanson
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Ski patrol attends to the injured snowboarders after their chair fell last year.

How a gust of wind made a chairlift fall, seriously injuring three snowboarders

An investigation into how a chair fell from a cable at Thredbo has revealed what went wrong and raised concerns about the safety of lifts at all Australian snow resorts.

  • Catherine Naylor
Snowcams show Friday Flat beginners slope at Thredbo resort on Thursday morning.

The ski season is here. Only two lifts out of 78 will be running

The ski season opens this long weekend with minimal snowfall and bookings down as cost-of-living pressures bite.

  • Catherine Naylor
A skier at Perisher in NSW last August.

Which of Australia’s favourite ski fields will survive by 2080?

If global emissions remain high, skiing and snowboarding will disappear in Australia by 2080 at all but two resorts. If emissions are rapidly reduced, snow sports will remain strong throughout the Australian Alps.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The view from Winter Park, Crackenback, and a mocked-up excerpt from one of Abby May’s emails to Neil Walker.

The ski lodge, the elderly bachelor and his new ‘best friends’

A chance encounter on a bus landed an octogenarian with a prized parcel of land near Thredbo in a messy court fight with a younger couple.

  • Michaela Whitbourn

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