Victorian ski resorts enjoy significant early season snowfalls

Victoria’s ski resorts have enjoyed 60 centimetres of snow as they enter the second weekend of the 2018 ski season.

After the Bureau of Meteorology forecast a potentially slow start to the ski season in its winter outlook, Falls Creek, the Dinner Plain lift and toboggan areas and Mt Hotham recorded a massive weekend of snowfall

While maximum temperatures are tipped to lift to around three degrees throughout the week, snowfalls over the weekend are a promising sign for the remainder of the season.

Victorian ski resorts say they have no plans to replicate a major NSW resort's ban on tobogganing.

Mt Buller, Mt Hotham and Falls Creek have also announed that they will not follow NSW ski resorts will not ban tobagganing.

The management of Thredbo sparked criticism on social media by announcing last month by introducing a blanket ban on the fun snow pursuit due to safety concerns.

Image: Snowmaking at Falls Creek.

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31st May 2018 - THREDBO SKI RESORT BANS TOBOGGANING AND ‘SNOW PLAY’ 

4th May 2018 - VICTORIAN ALPINE RESORTS WELCOME INVESTMENT IN COLLABORATIVE TOURISM STRATEGIES

6th April 2018 - NEW APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED FOR FALLS CREEK ALPINE RESORT MANAGEMENT BOARD

20th January 2018 - INSTALLATION COMMENCES ON FALLS CREEK’S NEW EAGLE CHAIR

28th November 2017 - NEW GOVERNANCE MODEL TO BE INTRODUCED FOR VICTORIA’S ALPINE RESORTS 

4th September 2017 - FALLS CREEK EXTENDS WINTER SEASON TO 8TH OCTOBER 

5th August 2017 - CLIMATE TO INCREASINGLY IMPACT AUSTRALIA’S SKI INDUSTRY 

21st July 2016 - NEW INITIATIVE TO INTRODUCE SNOWSPORTS SKILLS TO CHILDREN

3rd April 2016 - ALL MOUNTAIN TRAIL TO BOOST THREDBO’S STATUS AS AUSTRALIA’S ULTIMATE MOUNTAIN BIKE DESTINATION 

7th October 2015 - THREDBO CLOSES AFTER ‘EPIC’ 2015 SKI SEASON

5th May 2015 - THE MOUNTAIN COLLECTIVE ANNOUNCES THREDBO AS FIRST INTERNATIONAL PARTNER RESORT

31st July 2014 - INTERNET MARKETER WINS THE LEGAL RIGHT TO USE THREDBO PLACE NAME 

30th October 2008 - STRONG WINTER FOR ALPINE TOURISM 

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