How Big are Australia’s Ski Resorts? Australians are famously loyal when it comes to their ski resorts. Mention Hotham Alpine Resort in one conversation and someone will insist it’s “where the serious skiers go,” while in another corner of the same bar a Thredbo regular will argue it has the best terrain in the country, stating dismissively that “Perisher has no vertical.” The debate is part […] Brains Oz Brains | April 15, 2026 0 Comments
Perisher Ski Resort, Australia, Announces Closing Date & Operations Update Perisher Ski Resort, Australia, provided an operations update on Saturday, September 21. The New South Wales resort is planning to stay open until Sunday, September 29. From Monday, September 23, operations will be compressed to Front Valley via the Village 8 chair, a magic carpet, and Mitchell and Sturt T-Bars, based on demand. The reduced operations will be the last […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | September 22, 2024 0 Comments
Perisher Resort, Australia, Bids Farewell to the Mount P Triple Chair This Weekend This weekend, Perisher Resort, Australia is bidding farewell to the Mount P Triple Chair in style with a retro-themed ride day. As the resort is preparing for the arrival of the new Mount P 6-seater, join in the celebrations of the iconic 70s—the decade when the Triple Chair first began spinning. Over the weekend, dress up in your best retro […] Industry News Oz Brains | September 12, 2024 0 Comments
Perisher, Australia, Announces Inaugural Slush Cup Perisher Ski Resort, Australia, has announced that the resort will host its first ever Slush Cup. The event will span across three days, from September 29 – October 1, 2023, and will be rounding out the season with three fun events: a Dash for Cash, a Banked Slalom and a Pond Skim. Whether you’re a skier or a boarder, come […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | July 14, 2023 0 Comments
Vail Resorts Announces New Manager for Perisher Ski Resort, Australia Perisher Ski Resort, Australia, has announced the appointment of Nathan Butterworth as its new Vice President & General Manager, effective June 12, 2023. Butterworth is currently the Vice President & General Manager at Hotham, a role he has held since April 2022. Under his leadership, the resort team achieved its strongest performance on record last season, and he successfully navigated […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | May 31, 2023 0 Comments
[VIDEO] Perisher Skitube, Australia, Gets a Make-Over The Skitube in Perisher, Australia, is a Swiss-designed mountain rack-railway that takes skiers from Bullocks Flat below the natural snow-line outside the Kosciuszko National Park to Perisher Valley. From Perisher Valley, a second train also travels to Blue Cow. The Skitube started operations in 1987, and it remains the most popular means of reaching the Perisher Ski Resort, taking 4,500 […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | May 3, 2023 0 Comments
Perisher, Australia, Report: Great Snowbase for the Rest of the Season Apologies for omitting last weekend’s update but I was on competition duty at a moguls competition and then got a bad case of laryngitis. So let’s jump in where we left off, in the last 10 days we have had 28in (70 cm) of snow of which 6in (15cm) in the last 24 hours. Snow descended all the way to […] Conditions Report Julia Schneemann | August 23, 2022 0 Comments
Perisher Resort, Australia, Celebrates 70th Birthday This Saturday, Perisher Resort will celebrate its 70th birthday. 70 years ago the first rope tow and the first two ski lodges opened in Perisher, marking the birth of Perisher as a ski resort. The Telemark Lodge, a pre-fabricated ski lodge imported all the way from Norway, and the Snow Revellers Lodge, a 20-bed ski lodge that had started construction the […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | August 16, 2022 0 Comments
Perisher Resort, Australia, to Replace 2 Chairlifts with 1 High-Speed 6-Seater Perisher set to expand its lift infrastructure: It has come to SnowBrains’ attention that the development application lodged by Vail in December 2019 for a new chair lift on Mt. Perisher was quietly approved in September 2021 while lifts in the resort had stopped spinning due to the state-wide Covid-19 lockdown. The approval gives the green light to replace the […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | August 8, 2022 0 Comments
Hometown Mountain Shoutout: Perisher, Australia “Skiing in Australia?” I hear you say. Let me start off by saying that I have had some of the most amazing tree runs and off-piste skiing in Perisher that I have ever had. And that’s a lot coming from a European-raised skier. Disclaimer: I have also had some of the most miserable skiing: wet, cold, windy, and being stuck […] Julia Schneemann | August 3, 2022 1 Comment
Australian Ski Businesses in Big Trouble, Refunds in the Thousands of Dollars Australian ski resorts and businesses are struggling to stay afloat as Sydney’s covid lockdown gets extended another seven days. This will add up to a total of three weeks of lockdown in New South Wales, Australia. Another week of lockdown means ski businesses are dishing out thousands of dollars in refunds alone. Related: New Zealand Ski Resorts Left Struggling After […] Industry News Artur | July 9, 2021 0 Comments
Perisher Resort Australia Extends Season | Most Snow Since 2012 Perisher Resort in Australia just announced they will extended their season this year, they say there is just too much snow to close. Perisher is Australia’s largest ski resort and is a combination of 4 resorts with a total of over 3,000 acres of skiable terrain. Over 2 meters (6.5 Feet) of snow fell at Perisher in the month of […] Industry News LadyBrains | September 1, 2017 0 Comments
Southern Hemisphere is OPEN| Perisher, Australia OPENS Today Vail owned Perisher ski resort in Australia is the first ski resort open in the Southern Hemisphere this year. Lifts Open Today: Village Eight Express and Carpet three will open on normal opening times. Playstation Slopestyle Park Perisher is the park skiing capital of the southern hemisphere. They build huge features and invite all the best pros in the world. If you’re a professional park skier or rider, you’ve been to Perisher in the summer to shred. […] Industry News SnowBrains | June 4, 2015 0 Comments
Vail Buys Australia’s LARGEST Ski Resort for $136 Million Vail just announced that they’ve agreed to purchase Australia’s largest ski resort: Perisher Ski Resort. They bought it for $136 million USD. Vail just bought Park City Mountain Resort, UT for $182.2 million USD last year. Vail will now own the largest ski resort in the USA and in Australia. Perisher will be added to Vail’s “Epic Pass” making it even more… epic. Perisher is not only Australia’s largest ski resort, it’s also Australia’s most visited. Perisher = 3,000 skiable acres, 47 lifts, 7 peaks. This marks Vail’s first ever ski resort acquisition outside […] Industry News SnowBrains | March 30, 2015 1 Comment
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