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The Craigieburn Valley Ski Area
Located in the center of the Southern Alps in New Zealand’s South Island, the Craigieburn Valley Ski Area is the skiing site for the intermediate and advanced skiers featuring a vertical range of 1308 to 1811 m, 600 hectares of skiable area, and 3 fast rope tows. With good ups and better downs, the area is adorned with the steep narrow chutes, wide powder bowls, less populated runs offering the grand view of the Craigieburn Range. As the terrain is more appropriate for the intermediate to advanced skier, a knowledgeable beginner with a firm approach will surely learn much only in a day at Craigieburn. Due to the mountain providing a few easily accessed skiing slopes in the world, many kids have bloomed with their skills on the snow speaks speaking tremendously.
Craigieburn is much more than [...]
Cardrona Alpine Resort
Welcome to the site of wide open easy skiing for family! Nestled beautifully in the heart of the southern lakes district in South Island of New Zealand, Cardona is a ski resort with a clear natural setting and an encouraging environment for friends and family where they can be unfettered from the daily life stress. With its three basins boasting a variety of skiing and snowboarding claiming itself as cozy and welcoming, Cardrona is famous for its good amount of natural snow across its 320 skiing hectares of wide slopes. Located at a height of 1,670 m above the sea level, the ideal snow called as the ‘hero’ snow for its softness on the base is the major attraction that has pulled many families and skiers of all levels. The Cardrona Ski Resort, in fact, possesses some best and driest [...]
Broken River Ski Field
Located in the South Island in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, the award-winning Broken River is a club ski field that claims to be the best. Administered by the Broken River Ski Club, it is this field that witnesses the longest ski season in Australasia. Not only this, but also by amalgamating with the Craigieburn Valley, it is allegedly the largest skiable area in New Zealand occupying 900 hectares.
Surrounding a large, open basin boasting five electrical ski tows of high capacity and a skiable range ranging from an altitude of 1420 to 1820 m, the terrain is an array of rolling bowls offering stunning runs for all levels of beginners to expert snowboarders and skiers. These rope tows make you access around 300 hectares without the need of unclipping your fixes, which make up for the total [...]
Mount Ruapehu Ski Resort
Mt Ruapehu is world-renowned skiing destination due to its most remarkable natural skiing and snowboarding terrain not to be found anywhere in New Zealand the country – all thanks to its big snowy basins, steep shafts, drop-offs, and concealed powder piles. Mount Ruapehu, geographically, is one of the most active stratovolcano in the world situated at the southern end of the Taupo Volcanic Zone. In the North Island region, the volcano’s slopes are the only locations to offer major skiing fields and glaciers.
Regarded as the largest active volcano in the country, the mountain boasts the highest point in the North Island and has three peaks namely, Tahurangi (2,797 m), Te Heuheu (2,755 m), and Paretetaitonga (2,751 m) in between which the deep, active crater is filled with a crater lake. [...]
Perisher Ski Resort
Honored as the Best Australian Ski Resort in 2008, the Perisher Blue is largest skiing resort not only in the country, but also in the southern hemisphere. Formerly known as the Perisher Blue, the resort is nestled in the Australian Snowy Mountains in the southeastern area of New South Wales in the Snowy River Shire. The merger of four resorts namely, the Perisher Valley, Smiggins Holes, Blue Cow, and Guthega along with several lifts assures a memorable skiing and snowboarding experience appropriate for all levels.
The base elevation is at 1,640 m AHD, while the peak elevation at the top of Mount Perisher is 2,054 m. Accessible by road and by the Skitube that is the only underground rack-railway in the continent, the Ski Resort is the biggest one in Australia offering the deepest average snow [...]
Thredbo Ski Resort
If you are a great fan of skiing, do surely explore the ski runs of the Thredbo village in Australia, which are the longest ones during the winter. The Thredbo ski resort of the village resides in the Snowy Mountains of the New South Wales, particularly, in the valley of the Thredbo River ensuring some of the most breathtaking views. Besides skiing in winter, Thredbo is also a famous destination for hiking, rock climbing, abseiling, cross-country cycling, and its music festival during summer.
Set in the Kosciuszko National Park and designed as per a European skiing town, Thredbo offers the steepest terrain of all the ski resorts in Australia and the highest elevated point at 2037 m AHD. The town itself is located on the low altitude at 1365 m at the foot of the Crackenback Valley due to which [...]
Fetes And Frolics In Queenstown
On the South west of New Zealand in Otago Queenstown is an international resort town. Build on the inlet of Queenstown bay near Lake Wakatipu which is a thin lake formed because of glacial processes and looks like a lightning bolt with fantastic views of nearby mountains. Nicholas Von Tunzelman and William Gilbert Rees were the first people to settle in this area. They were on a tour in this area but returned back at this place in the year 1860 to settle here and to make a town which is now the Queenstown. While in the year 1862 they discovered gold in the Arrow River which is near by Queenstown. There are many theories on how the town was made first theory says that this town was fit for Queen Victoria. This is the most popular town of adventure and ski tourism this is an internationally well [...]
