HWTW Snow Reports Have Moved!

For some reason I was feeling energetic this morning (odd for a Sunday!) so I found myself heading to Perisher with the aim of walking up to mid station to have a look at the top section of the new Happy Valley snowmaking.

I tried to catch a glimpse of the work happening in the lower arcade of the Perisher Centre but there’s a dirty great big wooden gate blocking it off. I did manage to take this photo through a hole in the gate though

The new Perisher gondola

I walked up the road past the Sundeck and to the top of Front Valley. There was quite a heavy fog so the view was limited.

But only a few metres higher and the fog gave way to a beautiful, warm morning.

Looking towards Mt P from mid station

So what did I see? Not a lot, really. There appears to be two main snowmaking lines. There are guns down the tree lined trail to the skiers left of the Happy Valley t-bar, and guns going down the run adjacent to the t-bar track. That’s really quite impressive as I thought there would only be snowmaking down the t-bar track.

The t-bar track

Through the trees to skiers left

I know I’ve been critical of Perisher of late - mainly about their prices for this year. But I guess this is where your hard earned $102 a day is going. The snowmaking is going to be great - no doubt about it. But whether it’s enough to ease the pain of paying so much is yet to be seen.