Australia

Banff Mountain Film Festival at Mt Buller

The Banff Mountain Film Festival will return to Mt Buller for the eighth year running on Saturday 25 June, and is set to wow...

Help Australia’s first indigenous aerialist become a Winter Olympian

Mikayla George is our first Indigenous athlete in the Australian Aerial Skiing Development Squad. Help her to be our first Indigenous Winter Olympian.  Mikayla has overcome...

Queenstown turns on free wi-fi

New Zealand’s favourite visitor destination is more connected to the world than ever before with the official launch of free Wi-Fi hotspots in Queenstown...

Mt Hutt will open with all lifts operating

Canterbury’s Mt Hutt ski area is revelling in the white stuff – with a one-metre pre-season snow base being described as “the best in...

Oooohhhh Porters just got some serious early snow

Christchurch’s closest ski area, Porters, reports the best early season base for this time of the year, following Canterbury’s recent cold snap. Up to 30...

Plus sized skiers no longer left out in the cold

If you're having trouble finding your size in ski clothes then a new web retailer may have the answer. Monica Balon knows ski and snowboard gear....

Australia’s snow resort gallery from this week

New South Wales and Victorian resorts scored some good snow conditions this past week with temperatures cold enough for snow making and natural snow...

Beginners ski area to open in Canberra

Skiing and snowboarding will return to the slopes of Corin Forest this winter, for the first time in 21 years.  A 5000 square metre ?slope with...

This guy just skied 150 months straight

Andrew Snow just ticked off twelve and a half years of monthly skiing. That's one hundred and fifty months, every month, year round, year...

What Perisher has that no one else does

Few Australian ski resort season passes, actually none, can boast unlimited access to another seven international resorts and ten days at two more. We all...

The USA ski pass for Aussies for two cents per skiable...

It is hard to dispute a ski pass that gives the holder unlimited access to 27 662 acres on some of the USA's best...

Locals That Love Thredbo – Bianca Bott

Bianca Bott manages Thredbo YHA, and is one of the few locals that live in the village 365 days a year. This is her...

Which Aussie ski resort just turned on the snow guns for...

The first Australian ski area to fire up the snow-guns for 2016 began snow making today.  Canberra's Corin Forest Mountain retreat in the Tidbinbilla mountain...

Locals that love Jindabyne

Vanessa Knee is a Jindy local, a cycling instructor at Lake Crackenback Resort and president of the local Jindabyne cycling club.  I live in Jindabyne...

Locals that Love: Mt Buller

Adventure photographer Andrew Railton aka "Rails" has lived in Mt Buller year round since 2010. He writes for SnowsBest about his greatest love, the...

Locals that Love Mt Buller: Lauren Staveley

I have been spending my winters at Mt Buller ever since I can remember, my parents love the mountains and have passed that passion...
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