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By   /  June 10, 2015  /  OTHER NEWS  /  No Comments

This may be of interest to our readers (note: charity amended 11.6.15): Tassie’s Own Outdoor Leisure Super Show 16-18th October 2015 Fiona Kelly of TOOLSS is looking for interested parties to participate in this years upcoming show. “Tassie has such an enormous multitude of leisure pursuits to choose from, many of which the general public […]

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Site Changes

By   /  May 18, 2015  /  MOUNTAIN NEWS  /  No Comments

earth

We’ve split off the snow forecast and wind map onto their own dedicated page, the new menu link is besides the “cams” link. This should assist loading times when you’re wanting to check the cams on your mobile devices. If you haven’t checked out the “earth wind map” yet, head over to the new “forecasts” […]

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UTAS – Expedition Medicine Short Courses

By   /  May 12, 2015  /  SKI PATROL NEWS  /  No Comments

These eight day intensive and practical residential courses are now being offered by the University of Tasmania in partnership with the Australian Antarctic Division and TasTAFE as stand-alone courses or as an elective unit as part of the Remote and Polar Health stream of our Master of Public Health program. Both courses provide both theoretical […]

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STSA Annual General Meeting

By   /  December 10, 2014  /  SOUTHERN TASMANIAN SKI ASSOCIATION NEWS  /  No Comments

The STSA Annual General Meeting was held on 26th November, with the following people being elected to lead the organisation for the 2015 season: President: Peter Davis Vice President: Ambrose Canning Treasurer: Antal Hanke Secretary: George Brettingham-Moore Ski Patrol Convener: Andrew Davey Ski Patrol Secretary: Liz Caldwell-Koolhof Tow Convener: Ambrose Canning The meeting received a […]

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Sunday is On!

By   /  August 2, 2014  /  MOUNTAIN NEWS  /  No Comments

Typical early season conditions greeted a good turn out of sliders today. Mawson tow will be running tomorrow!

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YES!

By   /  August 2, 2014  /  MOUNTAIN NEWS  /  No Comments

Yoo hoo! There’s 40+ cm of snow across the slopes up here. I just had a midnight run down the jeep trail… Lovely! The whole place is transformed! Peter and Karen have just been to the top of Mawson and skied down, they report that its pretty fresh and soft and hard work on crossies […]

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Decision to run – tonight

By   /  August 1, 2014  /  MOUNTAIN NEWS  /  No Comments

A good start to the cover on Mt Mawson. We have club members travelling to the mountain this evening. They will walk up to the ski area and assess the possibility of running this weekend. Once we hear from them, we’ll publish their decision here on the web site. So stay tuned, it may be […]

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Are we on?

By   /  July 31, 2014  /  MOUNTAIN NEWS  /  No Comments

Looking good with fresh snowfall to 30 cm or so depth.

Good snowfall today, with more to fall to low elevations over the next 48 hours A decision on opening this weekend will be made tomorrow and will be posted here and on our facebook page.

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Active week ahead!

By   /  July 28, 2014  /  MOUNTAIN NEWS  /  2 Comments

The week ahead

Good news folks, there’s an active week of weather ahead with snow forecast through to the weekend. Keep an eye on the cam and snow report, maybe this time we’ll get enough cover for a ski?

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More fresh snow this week, but no banana!

By   /  July 18, 2014  /  MOUNTAIN NEWS  /  No Comments

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                    Oh our hopes were getting high… but no, there’s not quite enough snowfall to get the tows running this weekend. We are ever hopeful of course, well you just have to be in Tassie don’t you?   Hopefully this fall has set up a little base […]

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