Monday, July 22, 2019
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FUN FOR THE KIDS KIDS’ Week at Mt Buller saw plenty of smiles and sliding with families enjoying the free activities and time on the snow. Activities included free balloon animal twisting with Miss Twisty, hot chocolate warm ups and a colouring in competition with winners taking home bright new Bolle goggles for their next snow visit. More photos from Kids’ Week can be seen on page 8. Jenny Hurst enjoyed a snowy start to the weekend at Mt Buller with her son Finlay. PHOTO: Tony Harrington
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Mountain memories
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Social photos
Wintertime at last PAGE 13
Zoom Chair for Buller
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Skier profile...p6 Real Estate...p16
WHAT a week it was from July 12 through to July 20 – bumper snow falls have rescued the season. Up until the beginning of July snow falls had been sparse, but when it started to snow – it snowed. “We haven’t seen the sun longer than a split second for a long while now, I don’t know about you, but for me, I deďŹ nitely don’t care right now,â€? said snow reporter Sarah. “It’s been a long time between major winter storms, and this is getting better by
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Massive snow dumps heighten season
the day.â€? And the lift maintenance and operations crews got only a short reprieve from not having to shovel large amounts of snow from the lift load bays when on the ďŹ fth morning they hadn’t had fresh snow overnight. The other good news was the small ground ora was ďŹ nally buried, and it was time to get lost in the trees. Crews worked hard to get more lifts open, and by last
Wednesday some 18 lifts out of 23 were operating including Tirol and Koers. Some even more exciting news was that Skyline Terrain Park got a fresh re-build thanks to the grooming and Mt Buller Park crews, getting in there and jib, jib away. With temperatures dropping to overnight lows of -2.4 degrees it was highly expected that more snow was on its way. Loving the wintry blast Sarah
reported it to be a treat walking to the lifts kicking through fresh snow and a top of no more than -3 and wind chill making it feel much crisper. Buller Ski Lifts communication ofďŹ cer Rhylla Morgan said: “It’s not every day that you see in the severe weather warning section of the BOM Mt Buller forecast that we are to expect, and I quote ‘blizzard conditions are likely over Alpine areas with heavy snowfalls, particularly
during the late afternoon and evening’. “Another 10cm of fresh snow in the last 24hrs - what a difference a few days makes,� Rhylla said after two days of snow. And it was all just in time to celebrate Kids’ Week, the Cattleman’s Rail jam and Fox FM’s annual visit to the mountain which included special guest Brendan Fevola. With steady snow falls over a week it has now set the season for the remaining eight to ten weeks.
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