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Vail Resorts Just Took Over Australia | Purchases Falls Creek & Mount Hotham

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Vail Resorts is planning to buy Victoria’s Mount Hotham and Falls Creek ski resorts for about $120 million to expand its global offering of resorts reports the Australian Financial Review (paywall). Vail Resorts, which already owns 15 ski fields across the US, Canada, and Australia – including Perisher in NSW, Australia’s largest ski field – is understood to be paying a […]
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Australia Sees Deepest Snowpack in 17 Years After 47″ Storm

Snowpacks in Australia are huge right now – up to 233cms (92″). Some Aussie ski resorts just saw up to 120cms (47″). Thredbo has seen 445cms (175″) of snowfall this season and they have the deepest snowpack since the year 2000. “Our hydrographers braved the wild weather today to measure current snow depths and as expected it was DEEP! According […]
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VIDEO: Snowboarder With No Avalanche Gear Caught in Avalanche Near Perisher, Australia Today

We don’t have a lot of information about this avalanche that occurred in or near Perisher ski resort, Australia today. This is what we do know about this avalanche: Occurred today, August 8th, 2017 This avalanche was in or near Perisher ski resort, Australia The snowboarder pictured in the video triggered the avalanche This avalanche appears to have been big enough […]
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