Snow Reports - telling it like it is
Doesn’t happen often, but I’m laughing at this one!
Keep ya hands in ya pockets!
i also like the coming forcast as ill be at falls from sunday for a week, everything is coming up trenthouse!!!
Haha I had a giggle at that on your facebook!! So good!! (at least they are honest!!)
Ahhhhh, but would they have called it if the weekend dump age wasn’t in there?????
Still good to see though!!!!!
Ahhhhh, but would they have called it if the weekend dump age wasn’t in there?????
My thought exactly! bit of midweek modesty to drive up the weekend warrior sales!
Hahaha, good one.
#marketingdoneright haha
Dat Falls report tho!
So good love love the updates.
Perisher tried to have a crack today…
Lets just say,
It’s not that bad
Today at Perisher
The north wind doth blow…
There’s no doubt about it, today is like a chewy piece of steak you’d like to send back.
It is tough.
There are very strong winds blowing which will affect chairs being able to run safely. Check current lift status here.
The groomed runs at Smiggins will be your best bet to be protected from the elements, with the Groomer’s pick being J-Bar Land.
Temps should drop tonight, with the cold front coming through, bringing fresh snow and making it all ok again.
Its very cheesy!
Here’s another one:
A couple of crackers here….
this one from Falls Creek today….
THE FALLS REPORT
Category error.
We were riding a chairlift in our uniform the other day, talking to a woman here for the first time who told us she loved everything about Falls Creek… except for the snowboarders and the terrain parks! “They’re both a waste of space,” she said. “I think you should do what they do in Utah[?] and just get rid of them all.”
We gulped, were a bit shocked because we like to think of Falls Creek as an out-of-town tryout for a more tolerant world, and tried not to think about what we’d rather get rid of first. To paraphrase Sir Nigel Powers, “There are only two things we don’t like about this resort, people who are intolerant of other people’s choice of snow-sport; and the tobogganers”.
But now we’re being churlish. Who doesn’t remember the first thrill of sliding down a snowy roadside slope on a plastic sled or in a garbage bag, and how many of us rode a toboggan before we ever became skiers and snowboarders?
We think the woman we spoke to on the chair was also making a kind of category error (not in the strict ontological sense), like atheists who think all believers must be idiots, or believers who think all atheists are in darkness. Or, to make certain we’re squishing all the classic argument-starters into the same paragraph, like the constituents who always vote the same way who think anybody who votes another way must be selfish or lazy or ignorant.
We know there will always be people on the other side of any divide, including the other side of the terrain park fence, who are more informed or more enlightened than we are and who understand the world or enjoy the snow more profoundly than a lot of people on whatever side of the fence we’re on.
We personally prefer to sit on the fence and keep our skis on the snow, but as the iChing app on our wise-phone tells us, “The Superior Person [a debate for another time]… knows the key to tranquility is to see with the other’s eyes, listen with the other’s ears, feel with the other’s heart, and then return to your own center[sic], with new perspective and understanding.”
We said to the woman we spoke to on the chair that if she was still here this Freestyle Friday she should come along to the first-timer session in the Panorama Park, where we give away a Kicker snowboard every Friday afternoon to encourage our budding terrain park artists. This week we think we’ll give it to whichever little snowboarder has the most support from his or her parents, with the proviso that the parent(s) need to hit a feature for the first time too, ideally on rental skis.
Our terrain parks are for everyone. There are first-time features in the Panorama Park that will keep novice kids and adults amused for hours. And like the progression-perfect terrain around our mountain as a whole, there is a clear, step-by-step progression through the features and through the parks, and there’s always someone from the Falls Terrain Park crew on hand to provide guidance.
And even if we’re never going to be that hot kid hitting the big line in the Castle Park, you can’t be at Falls Creek if you don’t feel a vicarious thrill as you watch from the Ruined Castle chair while Tom Costa or Jeremy Burns, bananaman Riley Matthews or Darcy Plant, or any of the kids with Marvyn in the Falls Freestyle Institute goes big or gets upside down in the air. We know we can’t wait to watch the Storm the Castle slopestyle event in the park this Saturday.
The entire episode with the woman who wanted us to be Utah made us think of Dr Seuss, when Sylvester McMonkey McBean arrives in town with his Star-On machine and turns all the Plain-Belly Sneetches into Star-Bellies for three dollars a piece. It’s not long before the Star-Bellies are paying three dollars themselves to use the Star-Off machine. We wonder if our plain-bellied friend from the chair ever turned up in the terrain park on a snowboard whether all the star-bellied cool kids would start spending more time in Cloud 9…
Until neither the Plain nor the Star-Bellies knew
Whether this one was that one… or that one was this one
Or which one was what one… or what one was who.
I can’t believe I’ve come this far without mentioning the weather, which is still perfect, or the snow, which is even better and in great nick for the weekend.
Today’s Weather.
The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting a sunny day with light winds and an evenly-distributed minimum of -4 and maximum of 4.
You’re off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So… get on your way!
Oh, The Places You’ll Go! Dr Seuss.
and this one, while not strictly a report, is all over the current conditions….
Haha That was actually pretty cool!!