Lots and lots of snow!
 This week has brought us heaps of snow. We've gone from an almost bare mountain to being the first in the country to reach a one metre snow base! We've even had significant snow down in the surrounding villages and on Wednesday all the highways around the mountain were closed due to snow.
We have great news for all you enthusiastic skiers/riders who can't wait to get on the upper mountain - we will have upper mountain skiing available from this weekend! Check out the projected lift opening dates below.
Whakapapa projected lift opening dates
Happy Valley - After being anihilated by rain soon after opening, Happy Valley is definitely ready to go again from this Saturday.
Rockgarden - All this snow means that we will have the Rockgarden open this Saturday. It's groomed and ready!
Waterfall Express - The groomers are working on forming trails on the Express now and anticipate that it will be ready early next week.
Valley, Knoll Ridge and Waterfall T-bars - We need about 20-30cm more snow for work to commence on building T-bar lines. It's still snowing now and there's more in the forecast for the next few days so this shouldn't take long.
West - The T-bars above need to take priority over the west as they provide the main access to this area. We'll keep you posted on progress as the T-bars are prepared.
Turoa projected lift opening dates
Alpine Meadow - Man-made snow kept the top platter at Alpine Meadow going even after the rain but now, thanks to all this natural snowfall, we'll have both platters and the brand new Sunkid Carpet Lift going from this Saturday!
Movenpick and High Flyer - Will both be going this Saturday, giving us the first upper mountain skiing of the season!
Giant - Will be going from early next week.
Wintergarden and High Noon Express - Will be ready by Friday next week - in time for school holidays!
Is your child the next Jossi Wells?
 Could be! We have limited spaces still available in our Freestyle Development Programme. The programme provides professional coaching in free riding, jumps, rails, half pipe and racing from our top freestyle coaches.
Your child doesn't need to have ever hit a terrain park feature before. They just need to be a competent skier/rider, able to do parallel/linked turns on all groomed trails. The programme involves 44 days of coaching during all weekends and school holidays from 5 July to 12 October. Athletes are selected from this programme to be in the Rep Team and can receive full time coaching and travel down south to compete in the Junior National Champs.
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