The 2009 New Zealand Winter snow season is gearing up

The last 3 weeks has seen some amazing weather delivering a huge amount of snow to the mountains of the South Island of New Zealand. Queenstown and the Southern Lakes has been getting blitzed by tons of snow.

Coronet Peak is reporting a 80cm base

Remarkables and 130 cm base

Considering I live just below CP and Re i can testify that they are on the money with the snow depth reporting.

There will be lots of excited skiers and snowboarders getting geared up for the opening of Coronet Peak on the 6th of June.

We are stil getting snow today and some more is forecast for later in the week with a big high ridging in after that which wil supply the cold temperatures required for snow making.

We normally say that the snow in May never stays but this time I think it is going and the start of the season will be off to a cracker. The long term forecast for the winter is also good with plenty of good storm system that should deliver plenty of snow for the South Island and North Island ski fields.

I will be starting fairly regular updates to my ski blog from now on - stay tuned!

Coronet Peak update

Coronet Peak has seen some warmer temps with snow melt happening and then refreezing so its been a bit hard of late first thing in the morning but if you time it right its nice to enjoy the spring snow when it releases a bit. I decided a tune was in order so got that sorted and the Z10's are ripping it up and enjoying the hard snow. On shady southern aspects like exchange it has remained fairly good with chalky snow to ski. It has been a little bit quieter this week with the crowd spreading out around all the mountains in the Southern Lakes but still busy enough. Iwt would be handy now to see some more snow and the later part of weekend and early next week may produce something looking at the weather.