UTAS – Expedition Medicine Short Courses
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 […]
Read More →STSA Annual General Meeting
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 […]
Read More →Sunday is On!
Typical early season conditions greeted a good turn out of sliders today. Mawson tow will be running tomorrow!
Read More →YES!
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 […]
Read More →Decision to run – tonight
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 […]
Read More →Are we on?
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.
Read More →Active 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?
Read More →More fresh snow this week, but no banana!
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 […]
Read More →BOM Long Range Outlook
The Bureau of Meteorology outlook indicates that a wetter than normal season is more likely for the southern two-thirds of WA and the far southeast of Australia (inc. Tas) for the May to July period. The Mt Field-Mt Mawson area has a 55-60% chance of exceeding the median rainfall for the May – July 2014 […]
Read More →Proposed Alpine Visitors Centre
The STSA has developed some ideas for a new Alpine Visitors Centre / Day Shelter at Mt Mawson to replace the old Sitzmark lodge which was condemned and then subsequently demolished in Summer 2013. The proposal has been presented to the key political parties and the Tourism Industry Council, in the hope that Government funding […]
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