Perisher Opens All Four Of Its Sectors
Perisher Opens All Four Of Its Sectors
Published : 10-Jul-2024 04:55
A month into Australia's 2024 ski season, the country's resorts continue to struggle to open terrain.
Falls Creek is currently posting the most open runs in terms of terrain percentage open – at 40%, but larger Perisher has more runs open although its percentage of terrain open so far is a little lower. It's at about 24km of slopes, representing 30% or so of its runs. It's also just announced some runs are now open in all four of its sectors. At the other extreme Mt Buller has still only been able to open 5% of its runs.
The problem has been a lack of natural snowfall over the last two months, although there have been some snow showers and low overnight temperatures as low as -7 degrees have allowed for plenty of snowmaking.
"The persistent sub-zero temperatures have enabled the Perisher Operations Team to continuously make snow, allowing all four resort areas of Perisher to open. We're so excited for these school holidays here at Perisher, we're stoked to have all four resort areas open and ready to explore" said Claudine Talbott, Perisher Snowsports Instructor. "It's going to be an awesome few weeks and we are going to continue to open more terrain."
There's still not much snowfall in the forecast but light showers are now expected through the latter half of this week.
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