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White Christmas in Tasmania

By   /  December 25, 2025  /  MOUNTAIN NEWS  /  1 Comment

  Christmas morning 2025 has dawned cold and snowy at Mt Field National Park. There is a beautiful covering of fresh powder snow, and members of Oldina Ski Club have been able to celebrate a true white Christmas on the mountain. The Ski field and the jeep trail access are all snow covered – a […]

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Your chance to become a qualified Ski Patroller

By   /  November 25, 2025  /  MOUNTAIN NEWS, SKI PATROL NEWS  /  No Comments

Mt Mawson Ski Patrol is keenly interested in gaining new members.  Ski patrolling involves rendering first aid in the skifield.  This is mainly via skis or snow board.  Membership involves committing to our patrol roster three weekends each year for three years, and attending an on-hill training day.  If there is no skiable snow at […]

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Mt Mawson Ski Patrol in Action

By   /  October 17, 2025  /  SKI PATROL NEWS  /  No Comments

Last weekend (11-12 October) there was extensive snow coverage and cold conditions in the Mt Field National Park, and so the Mt Mawson Ski Patrol (MMSP) took the opportunity to undertake a realistic training scenario on the slopes of Mt Mawson Ski Field. Ski Patroller Phoebe Nash has sent through this debrief of what went […]

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Awesome Mawson!!

By   /  October 12, 2025  /  MOUNTAIN NEWS  /  1 Comment

There was only one skifield open in Australia today, and it was the Mt Mawson Ski Field in the Mt Field National Park, Tasmania. And what a day it was! It stayed cold and mostly sunny all day, with excellent snow conditions. There was quite a bit of fresh powder snow overnight, and of course […]

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Australia’s only open skifield!

By   /  October 11, 2025  /  MOUNTAIN NEWS  /  1 Comment

Snow conditions were excellent for skiing and boarding at Mt Mawson skifield today (Saturday 11 October). The sun peeked out occasionally, and snow continued to fall throughout the day adding fresh powder on top of a good base. As usual it took a good effort for the volunteers from the Oldina Ski Club to get […]

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More snow at Mt Mawson 🙂

By   /  October 10, 2025  /  MOUNTAIN NEWS  /  No Comments

One benefit of the wild weather we have been experiencing in Southern Tasmania is that there is fresh snow at Mt Mawson (again!) We don’t always expect to be running the ski tows at this time of year, but if there is the opportunity (and it is safe to do so) we might as well […]

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Fresh snow🙂No queues😊

By   /  September 27, 2025  /  MOUNTAIN NEWS  /  No Comments

      Volunteers from the STSA were up at Mt Mawson skifield early this morning to tackle the big task of digging out the top of the Mawson ski field following fresh snowfalls this week. It was windy & snowy but a great team workout got the tow path ready by just after 10 […]

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Don’t worry about the footy – the ski tows are running!

By   /  September 26, 2025  /  MOUNTAIN NEWS  /  No Comments

  Winter has not quite departed Southern Tasmania, and the BOM is forecasting more snow this weekend. Volunteers from the Alpine Club of Southern Tasmania, Hobart Walking Club and other STSA clubs are heading up to Mt Mawson Ski field for the weekend, and the plan is to operate the ski tows on both Saturday […]

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Open Sunday :)

By   /  September 20, 2025  /  MOUNTAIN NEWS  /  No Comments

  It looks like late ski seasons are becoming the norm in Southern Tasmania. Whilst the weather was pretty wild today (Saturday) a lot of skiers and boarders were up at Mt Mawson enjoying fresh snow on the jeep trail (out of the wind!) and on the lower slopes of the skifield.  Volunteers from the […]

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A Day to Remember

By   /  September 7, 2025  /  MOUNTAIN NEWS  /  1 Comment

The 2025 ski season finally kicked off in style on Saturday 6th September with excellent snow, and a beautiful blue bird day. As is always the way getting the tows dug out and ready to run after a big snowfall is a big task for the volunteers,  but the crew from Oldina Ski Club plus […]

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