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New Zealand Celebrates Matarikiโ€”Mฤori New Year

Tomorrow, June 20, New Zealand celebrates Matariki Day, a public holiday since June 2022. Matariki is the Mฤori name for a cluster of seven stars that appears in the early morning sky in New Zealand during midwinter. The constellation of these seven stars is known as Pleiades or Seven Sisters in Western culture, but is known as Matariki by the [โ€ฆ]

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Kiwi Brains | June 18, 2025
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4 New Zealand Ski Resorts Set to Open This Weekend After Heavy Snowfall

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New Zealand ski season is set to kick off this Saturday, June 14, with four major resortsโ€”Mt. Hutt, The Remarkables, Coronet Peak, and Cardronaโ€”welcoming skiers and snowboarders after a series of storms blanketed the region in fresh snow. Mt. Hutt had initially planned to open on Friday, June 13, but was postponed by a day due to unsafe conditions following [โ€ฆ]

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Kiwi Brains | June 13, 2025
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Mt. Hutt, New Zealand, Reverts Back to June 13 Opening Day Due to Too Much Snow in Forecast

There is such a thing as too much of a good thingโ€”Mount Hutt, New Zealand, announced on its social media channels and website yesterday, June 3, that the resort will not open this coming weekend. Instead, the season opening will be on Friday, June 13, as initially planend, due to around 1 meter (3 feet) of snow forecast for the [โ€ฆ]

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Kiwi Brains | June 3, 2025
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Early Snow Hopes Melt as Mt. Hutt, New Zealand, Delays Kingโ€™s Birthday Opening

Just weeks after Mt. Hutt, New Zealand, surprised the New Zealand ski community with its earliest planned opening in 16 years, the Canterbury ski field has been forced to delay operations due to recent poor weather. Warm temperatures, rain, and wind eroded the early-season snow cover in the last couple of weeks. The resort confirmed today, May 26, that it [โ€ฆ]

Kiwi Brains | May 25, 2025
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[PHOTOS] More Snow for New Zealand as Resorts Fire Up Snow Guns

Six weeks after the seasonโ€™s first snow dusted slopes in New Zealand, followed by a dump on May 1, Mother Nature has delivered again, allowing some resorts to begin snowmaking. Opening days are just a couple of weeks away, with Mt. Hutt planning to open on May 31, its earliest opening in 16 years. Related: Mt. Hutt, New Zealand, Announces [โ€ฆ]

Kiwi Brains | May 19, 2025
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Mt. Dobson Ski Area in New Zealand Listed for Sale After 50 Years of Family Ownership

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After five decades of family ownership and hard-earned legacy, Mt. Dobson Ski Area is officially on the market. Peter Foote, now 82, confirmed he is selling the South Island, New Zealand, ski field he first envisioned in the early 1970s. The announcement, reported by the New Zealand Herald, marks the end of an era for one of the countryโ€™s most [โ€ฆ]

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Kiwi Brains | May 12, 2025
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Mt. Hutt, New Zealand, Announces Early Season Start After Rare May Snowfall, Marking First May Opening in 16 Years

Mt. Hutt, one of New Zealandโ€™s premier ski destinations, is set to open early for the 2025 season following an extraordinary 1.2-meter (4-foot) snowfall during the first week of May. This marks the resortโ€™s earliest opening in 16 years, with weekend operations commencing on May 31, including the Kingโ€™s Birthday public holiday on June 2. Full seven-day operations will begin [โ€ฆ]

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Kiwi Brains | May 11, 2025
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Mt. Hutt, New Zealand, Sees Record May Snowfall

Over the weekend, Mt. Hutt in New Zealandโ€™s Canterbury region has experienced a remarkable snowfall of approximately 1.2 meters (3.9 feet). This takes the current snow base at the top of Mt. Hutt to an estimated 1.8 meters (5.9 feet) and the lower base to 50 centimeters (1.6 feet). However, the exact snowbase is currently hard to establish, as wind [โ€ฆ]

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Kiwi Brains | May 5, 2025
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