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 thing—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 […] Industry News Kiwi Brains | June 3, 2025 0 Comments
Early Snow Hopes Melt as Mt. Hutt, New Zealand, Delays King’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 […] Kiwi Brains | May 25, 2025 0 Comments
2025 Opening Dates for Ski Resorts in New Zealand New Zealand’s ski season typically begins in mid-June and extends into early October, though specific opening dates vary significantly by resort. Currently, Mt. Hutt is aiming to be the first resort in New Zealand to open for skiing and snowboarding, after receiving a nice 1.2-meter early May snowfall. Here are the opening dates for New Zealand’s ski resorts in chronological […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | May 13, 2025 0 Comments
Mt. Hutt, New Zealand, Announces Early Season Start After Rare May Snowfall, Marking First May Opening in 16 Years Mt. Hutt, one of New Zealand’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 resort’s earliest opening in 16 years, with weekend operations commencing on May 31, including the King’s Birthday public holiday on June 2. Full seven-day operations will begin […] Industry News Kiwi Brains | May 11, 2025 0 Comments
Mt. Hutt, New Zealand, Sees Record May Snowfall Over the weekend, Mt. Hutt in New Zealand’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 […] Industry News Kiwi Brains | May 5, 2025 0 Comments
Mt. Hutt, New Zealand, Photo Essay: Classic Turns With a Moon Twist Through the windshield, the color stack of Canterbury’s Mt. Hutt resembles a cappuccino, rich browns below a snow-frothed top. At just under 7,200 feet of elevation and rocking the largest skiable area of the South Island, Mt. Hutt has earned its stripes as one of New Zealand’s top ski fields. Related: Mount Hutt, New Zealand, Finally Gets Big Snow Dump […] Conditions Report Paulie | July 31, 2023 0 Comments
Mount Hutt, New Zealand, Finally Gets Big Snow Dump After a slow start to the season in New Zealand, the Snow Gods have finally blessed the ‘Land of the Long White Cloud’ with a big snow dump. A classic cold front hit with wind, rain, and snow sweeping across both the North and South Island and bringing a much-needed snow dump to Mount Hutt Ski Resort. Related: Mount Hutt, […] Industry News Kiwi Brains | July 23, 2023 1 Comment
Slow Start for the Corporate New Zealand Ski Fields So far this winter, snow has been hard to come by in New Zealand for the corporate ski fields. Coronet Peak, one of the ‘Three Peaks’ run by NZ Ski and based in Queenstown, opened on the 16th of June but only several days later had to close due to a lack of snow. Mt Hutt (Three Peaks) which is […] Industry News Nathaniel Lewis | July 5, 2023 0 Comments
Mount Hutt, New Zealand, Closes Again Less Than 10 Days After Opening Mount Hutt, New Zealand, announced today, June 19, 2023, that the resort will close again — temporarily — after opening for the season on June 10. The resort operators stated on social media that they received 40mm of rain in the last two days, which eroded the thin snow cover. So far this season, the resort has only received 19cm […] Industry News Kiwi Brains | June 19, 2023 0 Comments
VIDEO: Child Falls From Chairlift at Mount Hutt, New Zealand [arve url="https://youtu.be/EpVy4ejtAqE"] Kiwi Brains | July 20, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Travel to Australia and New Zealand is Officially a No-Go For Americans This Winter If you have a U.S. passport that means you’re probably not going to make ski season in New Zealand and Australia happen this year. This will mark two southern winters in a row where skiing & snowboarding will be off-limits to foreigners down under. Related: Ski Season in South America Likely Off-Limits to U.S. Citizens This Year: Chile and Argentina […] Industry News Kiwi Brains | July 13, 2021 1 Comment
Eager Riders Stay Overnight at Mt Hutt, NZ, to be First to Ride New Chairlift on Opening Day A group of eager skiers and boarders slept overnight at Mt Hutt resort in New Zealand to be the first to ride the resort’s new eight-seater Nor’west Express chairlift on opening day today. The group, all donning t-shirts with the slogan ‘First on Chair’, came prepared for the all-nighter with beer and portable speakers. “You can’t sleep, it’s like so […] Industry News Kiwi Brains | June 11, 2021 0 Comments
First 8-Person Chairlift Coming to New Zealand The first 8-person chairlift in New Zealand is officially set for construction. NZSki announced Mt. Hutt will be replacing their current “Quad Chair” with a brand new, high speed detachable 8-person chairlift. Mt. Hutt is located on the South Island of New Zealand, roughly 50 miles from Christchurch. The ski area has three chairlifts and a magic carpet and is […] Industry News Taylor Stephan | September 22, 2020 0 Comments
Skiers Had to Rappel to the Ground After Two Chairs Collided at Mt. Hutt Ski Field, New Zealand Twelve skiers were stuck and had to rappel to the ground after two chairs collided at Mt. Hutt ski field in New Zealand this morning. Related: VIDEO: Must Watch Chairlift Horror Movie ‘FROZEN’ is Available to Stream For Free The incident occurred first thing in the morning at about 8:30 am when two fully loaded six-person chairs ascended too close […] Industry News Kiwi Brains | July 14, 2020 0 Comments
Mt Hutt, New Zealand’s Best Resort, Opened Today With Their Best Base in 10-Years Canterbury’s best-loved ski area Mt Hutt today celebrated its opening day with new trails and facilities, bumper crowds and the best snow base in 10 years. Defending its four-year title as New Zealand’s best ski resort, Mt Hutt reaped the fruits of a timely snowstorm that dumped more than 30″ of snow, with parts of the slopes sitting at an incredible 3-feet […] Industry News Kiwi Brains | June 7, 2019 0 Comments
The World’s Best Resorts are Available on the Ikon Pass Deer Valley Resort, UT, the standard for first-class service in the ski industry, retained its title as the 2018 Best United States’ Ski Resort at this year’s World Ski Awards for the sixth straight year. The resort also reclaimed the honor of the country’s greatest ski hotel. The Stein Eriksen Lodge, Utah’s only Forbes Five-Star hotel and spa and designated one of the […] Industry News Steven Agar | November 30, 2018 0 Comments
Mt. Hutt, NZ Extends Season After Multiple Storms Left Them With “Oodles of Snow” Mt. Hutt, NZ is having one heck of a season. Multiple storms as of late have left the area buried in snow, which has prompted them to extend their ski season. Instead of closing on the original scheduled date of Sunday, October 8th, they will now close on Sunday, October 15th. This allows New Zealand residents to enjoy the slopes through […] Industry News Chris Wallner | September 5, 2017 0 Comments
Avalanche Hits Car Driving on Mt. Hutt, NZ Access Road Today An avalanche came down on a convoy of about 20 cars who were leaving Mt. Hutt, NZ ski area near Canterbury, NZ today, August 16th 2017, according to Stuff.co.nz. The avalanche hit one pick up truck – pictured above. Mt. Hutt recently saw 47″ of new snow. “We were just sort of driving along and boom, it just hit our […] Avalanche AvyBrains | August 16, 2017 0 Comments
New Zealand Just Got Buried In Snow | Up to 1.2-Meters (47″) of New Snow! New Zealand just got smashed with big snow the past 2 days. Mt. Hutt is claiming 1.2m (47″ of new snow). “1.2 metres of new snow along with delayed opening of 10 etc…” – Mt. Hutt, today Many ski resorts in NZ have been closed that past day or two including Mt. Dobson who has been closed everyday since August […] Conditions Report Kiwi Brains | August 14, 2017 1 Comment
VIDEO: Large Snowstorm Deposits 26-Foot-Deep Snowdrifts in New Zealand Over Weekend Helicopter footage of the big dig out in snowdrifts as deep as 26′ at Mt. Hutt, NZ on July 22nd, 2017. “At 5am we have 2.9km of road left to clear. The going is very tough in the Bluffs – compacted snow and deep drifts up to 8m [26-Feet] in height!” – Mt. Hutt, July 22nd, 2017 New Zealand ski […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | July 24, 2017 0 Comments
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