Ready, Set, Snow
With snow on the ground there was a great turn out Saturday for the tow and ticket office manager training. This yearly event starts the count down for what we all hope will be a good season. A critical part of preparing for the season is updated training for both old and new tow and […]
Read More →Our Turn!
After the mainland resorts hogging all the snow this season, will it finally be our turn! This week will see a break in the patterns that have been sending all the snow to our northern neighbors. Snow is forecast over several days this week and it has the potential to set up a good base […]
Read More →Uni Tow Challenges
Whilst NSW battles floods it was a perfect Autumn day up at Mt Mawson Ski Field today (Saturday 20th March, 2021). A small band of willing helpers turned out for the first day of STSA’s March working bee, and they were still hard at work as the sun set over the Rodway range. Rod Stolorz […]
Read More →Great day at Mt Mawson Ski Field – and on again tomorrow!
As predicted a big crowd of snow enthusiasts travelled to Mt Field National Park to enjoy great snow conditions at Mt Mawson Ski Field today. In typical Tasmanian fashion the day started with some drizzle, but progressively cleared to a great day with plenty of snow and good visibility. A good turnout of volunteers from […]
Read More →Snow Report – Saturday 10th August
The intense low passing to our south east overnight pumped 14mm of rain onto Hobart, 36mm onto Scotts Peak and 10mm onto Maydena. I’ve just spoken to Peter on the mountain and Mt Mawson has received around 10cm of fresh snow. It’s nice and cold up there and the fresh snow is very good condition […]
Read More →Snow Report – Friday 26th July
Well it’s been one of those up again down again type of weeks as far as snow fall is concerned. The end result is that there’s still a decent snow pack to enjoy this weekend. The forecast is for snow above 1000 meters (Lake Dobson level) on both Saturday and Sunday, if that eventuates it’ll […]
Read More →Ski Season Opening 2019
After some excellent snow earlier this week conditions are looking good to get the 2019 ski season underway at Mt Mawson this weekend 20-21 July. The initial deep snow that caused a number of rescues in the Cradle Mt National Park was compressed and consolidated by some rain (very Tasmanian!) to form a good base, […]
Read More →First 2019 working Bee planned for this Saturday
The first STSA working bee for 2019 has been scheduled for this Saturday 19th January, with plenty of external tasks to be tackled in preparation for the 2019 snow season. The working bee has been reduced from two days to one day, as with the bush fires burning in the South West World Heritage area […]
Read More →Winter is Still Here!
Volunteers from the Mawson Ski Club will be running the ski tows this weekend. And it’ll be a cracker! Snow started falling yesterday and it’s still snowing. I’m on the mountain and I awoke early this morning to 30cm of fresh goodness – so a fresh tracks Saturday is in store! Pic this morning from […]
Read More →Wow!
This mornings cam shots at 9am and then 11am finally allows us to see some detail up the slope. And what detail there is! Comparing pics between Sunday afternoon (2nd Aug.) and Friday morning (7th Aug.) in the slideshow below, keep an eye on the features up slope also and watch them get swallowed in snow. [wppa […]
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