Skiing in Australia

By Jim Darby
Updated July 29 2015 - 10:40am, first published 10:30am
Aussie snow: Reasons people are choosing to ski and snowboard in Australia include cheaper holiday prices when compared to overseas trips, world-class half-pipes, high-speed chair lifts, and artificial snow used in resorts like Thredbo (pictured) to supplement natural snow at the beginning of the season.
Aussie snow: Reasons people are choosing to ski and snowboard in Australia include cheaper holiday prices when compared to overseas trips, world-class half-pipes, high-speed chair lifts, and artificial snow used in resorts like Thredbo (pictured) to supplement natural snow at the beginning of the season.

Most Australian skiers and snowboarders who travel go through a kind of difficult adolescence in which they fashion their technique on home ground, then move on to overseas snow runs. With all this behind them, they reject Australia for a time.