Spencers Creek Snow Depth 204.1cm!
Redjames.
There is always one last hurrah storm in Sept!
The biggest issue we will have is staffing and the resort closing areas even though there is snow!
Yeah I was at Perisher for the closing weekend last season and it had just dumped snow and they certainly could have stayed open for longer! Hopefully this great season keeps it up I might even get a Spring school holidays shred in.
Yeah I was wondering if any of the resorts have lodged application to the parks to stay open longer??
why don’t independent people measure the snow depth on the actual mountain rather that close to the mountain?
am i missing something?
People start to “make up” the depth of their snow…
i realize that - that’s why it should be independent people doing it. I see no value in measuring depth of snow that is not actually part of the mountain.
Actually it is pretty smart I think!
It is out in the middle of nowhere and no trees or wind drifts! No man made snow to affect the reading.
So it is a true natural snow depth!
It is not the only reading hydro do but it is the one that is the most realistic gauge for the main range!
But you’re not boarding anywhere near it?
So?
But yes people do!
It is a very true and acurate reading for people who ski the main range! Also Cross Country skiers.
What to you mean “so?”
It’s like me standing in the Perth hills while it’s raining, measuring the rainfall, then claiming “the whole of Perth received this amount of rain, when really some parts may have received less and some parts may have received more.
Actually what you are saying is the same as recording the rainfall in the middle of Perth when some has stood above you and mixed water from a hose with water from clouds!
I just think the current system is not that flawed.
I suspect the reason the do it the current way is that the resorts don’t want to pay for someone to do the unbaised reading.
Snowy Hydro were always measuring there anyway (so costs nothing/govt funded). The resort agreed to use it on their snow reports so people couldn’t accuse them of fudging the results.
Actually what you are saying is the same as recording the rainfall in the middle of Perth when some has stood above you and mixed water from a hose with water from clouds!
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damn that pic was massive
How about you go and pay for an independant person to record snowfall at the resort then…
The simple fact is the resorts cant be trusted. No one else is going to pay to do it so the current scheme will stay.
Its the exact same as swell reports, may be a 2m swell but not all areas are going to be 2m is it? how do you feel about swell reports then?
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