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Vail Resorts Announces New Manager for Perisher Ski Resort, Australia

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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 […]

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Julia Schneemann | May 31, 2023
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[VIDEO] Perisher Skitube, Australia, Gets a Make-Over

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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 […]

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Julia Schneemann | May 3, 2023
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Perisher, Australia, Report: Great Snowbase for the Rest of the Season

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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 […]

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Julia Schneemann | August 23, 2022
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Perisher Resort, Australia, Celebrates 70th Birthday

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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 […]

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Julia Schneemann | August 16, 2022
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Perisher Resort, Australia, to Replace 2 Chairlifts with 1 High-Speed 6-Seater

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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 […]

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Julia Schneemann | August 8, 2022
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Hometown Mountain Shoutout: Perisher, Australia

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“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
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Australian Ski Businesses in Big Trouble, Refunds in the Thousands of Dollars

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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 […]

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Artur | July 9, 2021
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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 […]

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