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Resorts’ visitor numbers well up

FALLS Creek and Mt Hotham alpine resorts are continuing to see mountain visitation well above their decade averages. A continuation of great snow conditions, coupled with a hunger after COVID impacted seasons in 2020 and 2021 has seen huge visitation...

Jeff Zeuschner 18 Aug 2022

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It’s the dream start

AFTER the challenges of the past two winters, we couldn’t have asked for a better start to this snow season at Falls Creek and Mt Hotham. Heavy early snowfalls last week of around half a metre and ideal snow making conditions allowed both mountains...

Jeff Zeuschner 06 Jun 2022

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Alpine resorts’ rejig in place after winter

THE Victorian Government is pressing ahead with its restructure of management and governance of the state’s alpine resorts, but it won’t be in place for this winter. A year ago the government announced it will abolish the current system of management...

Jeff Zeuschner 06 Jun 2022

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Accidental career for mountain’s chief ski patroller

FOR a kid from the south coast of New South Wales, what was to be a mere week’s holiday at Mt Hotham in 1987 changed Bill Barker’s life. Offered work at the Mt Hotham General Store, Bill stayed for the winter, came back the next year, and next, and...

Jeff Zeuschner 18 Dec 2021

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Terrain park all in a day’s work

BRIONY Johnson loves to snowboard. She’s been doing it since she was three, happily carrying her board out of Mt Hotham’s Jalanga Ski Lodge, which decades on, she is managing this season.“It feels like home, having spent so much of my childhood there...

Jeff Zeuschner 28 Jun 2021

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Alpine real estate interest remains high

THE advent of COVID–19 and its impacts on our lives appears to have only heightened the interest in alpine real estate. Lachlan Castran, director at Castran, which is a major player in alpine real estate, particularly at Dinner Plain where father...

Jeff Zeuschner 28 Jun 2021